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Wilson passed several reform laws. He passed the Federal Reserve Act and established income taxes.
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July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918. Started after the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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The Lusitania was sunk by the Germans because it was carrying munitions for the British.
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The Great Migration, or the moving of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North.
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Rankin ran as a progressive, pledging to work for a constitutional woman suffrage amendment and emphasizing social welfare issues.
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The Act itself was drafted by the Captain Hugh S. Johnson after the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany.
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The Espionage Act made it a crime for any person to give information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces.
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Lenin was the one-man dictatorship over the people he claimed he wanted to empower. Lenin called for a Soviet government, one that would be ruled directly by soldiers, peasants and workers.
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Wilson established 14 points as a blueprint for world peace that were used for peace after World War I.
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It was first observed in Europe, the U.S. and parts of Asia before spreading around the world and killed about 20 to 50 million.
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Passed to cover a broader range of offenses.
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In Schenck vs. United State, the Supreme Court determine when a state could constitutionally limit an someone's free speech rights under the First Amendment.
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Wilson offended the Senate by refusing to include senators the Paris Peace Conference. On November 19, 1919, for the first time in its history, rejected a peace treaty.
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The United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles due to the opposition of a group of senators called the Irreconcilables, who believed that under the terms of the treaty, the United States would lose too much of its autonomy to the League of Nations
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Stanton and Mott, and Susan B. Anthony,along with other activists, formed organizations that raised awareness to grant voting rights to women. After a 70 year battle, the 19th amendment was passed that granted women right to vote.
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Immigrants must be able to pass certain things before they are allowed to be in America because foreign immigrants might threaten national security.
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Farmers were able to sell their product more faster and the city also grew in technology and more jobs were being created.
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A law that raised taxes on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms.
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One American dollar is worth 7,000 German marks.
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The congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and denied Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States.
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