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Woodrow Wilson claimed his place within the Progressive movement with his economic reform package, "the New Freedom." This agenda, which passed congress at the end of 1913, included tariff, banking, and labor reforms and introduced the income tax. -
Ww1 originally called “The Great War” was a war that lasted 4 years taking the lives of 8.5million soldiers -
Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and that held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. It sunk on May 7th 1915 -
The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s. -
The era of women in Congress began on April 2, 1917, when Montana's Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as a Member of the House of Representatives. In August 1920, three months before the 1920 elections, the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was added to the Constitution. -
The Selective Service Act of 1917 authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. -
Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. -
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
Spanish flu, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. -
In one of the first tests of freedom of speech, the House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States. -
Schenck v. United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Despite Woodrow Wilson chairing the committee which drafted the Treaty of Versailles Covenant, America voted against becoming official members of the League of Nations in 1919. -
They were concerned that belonging to the League would drag the USA into international disputes that were not their concern. -
The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams -
Betty Marion White Ludden was an American actress and comedian. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement -
The Salt March was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India -
National Publications released their first issue of Action Comics highlighting a superhero named Superman.