WW1 Digital Timeline

By Sedokholyan

  • First woman elected to Congress

    Jeannette Pickering Rankin

  • Wilson’s presidency start

  • WW1 starts

  • Lucitania

  • Great migration starts

  • Selective service act

  • Lenin begins running a Russian rev

  • Flu epidemics

  • Wilson’s 14 points speech

  • Espionage Act

  • Sedition act

  • WW1 ends

  • Schenk vs US

  • US senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles

  • KKK terrorized the nation

    KKK terrorized the nation

    The KKK was revitalized in 1920 and it was again a powerful political force in both the south and the north, spreading hatred against African Americans, immigrants, Catholics and Jews.
  • Mass media was born

    Mass media was born

    In November 1920, the first commercially-licensed radio station began broadcasting live results of the presidential election.

  • Economic Boom

  • Prohibition

    Prohibition

    I’m january 1920 the so called prohibition amendment went into effect, banning the production and sale of liquor across the US

  • 19th amendment

  • Women gained the right to vote

    Women gained the right to vote

    At first nine states denied women the vote in all instances but on August 18th all women were allowed to vote.

  • Wilson’s presidency ends

  • Emergency Quota Act

    Emergency Quota Act

    Also referred to as the emergency immigration act. It restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year, and also set down an immigration quota by which only 3 percent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the US in 1910 could only stay there till 1921.

  • Teapot Dome scandal