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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 driving force behind the mass movement was to escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow. -
Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1912 after serving only two years as governor of New Jersey. President of Princeton University from 1902 until his election as New Jersey governor, Wilson succeeded in his campaigns for both governor and president with significant aid from practical political organizers in the democratic also that he won in the election Wilson because of a split ticket. -
1914
June 28
Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated.
July 28
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
August 2-7
Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium. France invades Alsace. British forces arrive in France. Nations allied against Germany were eventually to include Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, Romania, Greece, France, Belgium, United States, Canada, Serbia, India, Portugal, Montenegro, and Poland -
The Lusitania carried a healthy complement of American passengers when she departed New York for Liverpool on May 1, 1915, despite a published warning from the German authorities that appeared in U.S. newspapers the morning of her departure. -
first German operatives set to work on American soil, President William Howard Taft signed into law the Defense Secrets Act of 1911, criminalizing both the collection of information from military installations and facilities, and the sharing of sensitive information with those who lacked appropriate clearances. After the United States entered the war, in June 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act, building on the 1911 law, with important new elements added. -
On this date, Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, was sworn into the House. Rankin had campaigned as a progressive in 1916, pledging to work for a constitutional woman suffrage amendment and emphasizing social welfare issues. Rankin was going to rerun in 1918 but she did not rerun because they change the district but she ran for us senate but lost in primary and general elections she won a third party. Than in 1940 Raskin ran for the us house agin and won. -
Some six weeks after the United States formally entered the First World War, the U.S Congress passes the Selective Service Act on May 18, 1917, giving the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers. -
Vladimir Lenin was the most influential political figure in the development of the Russian Revolution. Before he was able to lead the coup in the capital during October 1917, however, Lenin first had to win the support of the Bolshevik party upon his return to Russia earlier that same year. His work to consolidate support and gain influence was not easily accomplished, however, due to the fact that many of the Bolshevik leaders at the time considered Lenin's views to be quite insane. -
World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history. -
The immediate cause of the United States’ entry into World War I in April 1917 was the German announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare and the subsequent sinking of ships with U.S. citizens on board. But President Woodrow Wilson’s war aims went beyond the defense of U.S. maritime interests. In his War Message to Congress, iPresident Wilson declared that the U.S. objective was “to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world in April 1917 -
The Sedition Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war. Passed on May 16, 1918, as an amendment to Title I of the Espionage Act of 1917, the act provided for further and expanded limitations on speech. Ultimately, its passage came to be viewed as an instance of government overstepping the bounds of First Amendment freedoms. -
In an address to Congress in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson presented what he called the “Fourteen Points” (derided by others as his Ten Commandments because of Wilson’s insufferable self-righteousness), a plan to end war forever. -
In Schenck v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court invented the famous "clear and present danger" test to determine when a state could constitutionally limit an individual's free speech rights under the First Amendment. The opinion in this case was written by Justice Holmes. -
As United States entered World War I in 1917, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) encouraged its supporters to join in the war effort. But a few years later in the-congress house leader James Mann introduced the 19 amendment which gave the right to vote for women in elections it was passed in the house and senate.When the 19 amendment passed in both the chamber the next process it went the state ratification under article 5 of the constitution in 1920 it became part of it. -
When members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee learned of former president Woodrow Wilson’s death in 1924, they asked their chairman, Henry Cabot Lodge, to represent them at the funeral. Learning of this plan, the president’s widow sent Lodge the following note: “Realizing that your presence would be embarrassing to you and unwelcome to me, I write to request that you do not attend.” -
The women’s suffrage movement reached as far back as 1638, when Margaret Brent, a successful businesswoman in Virginia, demanded the right to vote in the state’s House of Burgesses. By 1920, every state west of the Mississippi River allowed women to vote. -
While on the campaign trail pushing for the U.S. to accept the League of Nations, President Wilson suffered a stroke that caused paralysis, partial blindness, and brain damage. For the remainder of his term—another year and a half—he was, as,” totally incapable of meeting with lawmakers, governing, or performing the duties of the presidency. The first lady, Edith Wilson, stepped in and assumed his role as president she help him a lot to feel better and do the role as president. -
In 1920, the “Lost Generation”—expatriate writers who lived in Europe following World War I—became a force in American literature. Among books published in 1920 were Main Street, a skewering of small-town America by Sinclair Lewis; This Side of Paradise, the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald’s first collection of short fiction. -
On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart carrying a massive, improvised explosive was detonated on the busiest corner of Wall Street. One eyewitness described “two sheets of flame that seemed to envelop the whole width of Wall Street and as high as the 10th story of the tall buildings.” Thirty-eight people were killed in the Wall Street bombing, and hundreds were injured. -
In April 15, 1922, Wyoming Democratic senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in us history. one of the biggest scandals it was involved a bribery scandal in the Harding administration it involved the interior secretary Albert falls being the first cabinet secretary in American history to get arrested on bribery and conspiracy he was found guilty and went to prison. -
In the year of 1924 president Calvin Coolidge sign into the Indian citizenship act which allow native Americans who were living and born in the United states the right of citizenship. -
As a result of a series of bombings in 1919, the attorney general of the United States, Mitchell Palmer, mounted a campaign to capture and deport foreign radicals. The next year marked the “most spectacular” of the Palmer raids, in which thousands of accused communists and anarchists across the country were arrested in a single swoop.
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