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On March 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey at the time, was elected President of the United States.
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On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania a passenger ship carrying British ammunition was sunk by a German submarine.
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The Great Migration was the moving of blacks out of the south into the North and Midwest in search of a better life.
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On March 4, 1917 Rankin was elected to congress representing Montana.
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Started with the overthrow of the Czar, it was a political ,social, and economic revolution of Russia led by Vladimir Lenin
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On April 6, 1917 the US joined allies, Britain, France, and Russia in WW1.
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On May 18, 1917 the Selective service act went into effect, which required the federal government to raise a national army through conscription.
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On June 15, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson made it a crime made "for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies"
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The Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 infected 500 million people and killed 20-50 million
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On January 8, 1918 Wilson gave a speech on his fourteen points which were a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War 1
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On May 16, 1918 the Sedition Act was passed that "made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States"
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A landmark decision that decided the Espionage Act did not violate the First Amendment because congress has special powers in times of war.
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On November 19, 1919 the US Senate voted 55-39 to not sign the treaty and to not join the League of Nations.
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On August 14, 1920 the summer Olympics were held in Antwerp, Belgium and was a sign of good nature between countries after WW1
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The 19th Amendment gave white women the right to vote in America.
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On September 16, 1920 the US sustained the worst terrorist attack at the time when a horse carriage exploded on a busy corner of Wall Street
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On April 14, 1922 The Wall Street Journal published an article exposing the scandal in which a federal oil reserve for emergency use only was being drilled on.
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On April 10, 1925 F Scott FItzgerald published The Great Gatsby, a criticism of the opulent lives of the rich during the 20s.
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Scopes was a teacher who violated a Tennessee law prohibiting teaching evolution in schools. The law was ruled unconstitutional
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On October 24, 1929 there was a run on the banks and the stock market crashed due to overvalued stocks.
