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28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Saw America through World War 1
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Global conflict spanning from 1914-1918
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Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat 11 miles off the coast of Ireland.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana was sworn into the House of Representatives
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movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern US to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West from 1916-1970
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Served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. Bolsheviks seized control of government and proclaimed Soviet rule
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Act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service
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criminalized any “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the U.S. government or military
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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War. Killed between 20-40 million
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proposal made by Wilson, outlining his vision for ending WW1 in a way that would prevent something like this from happening again
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extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses
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freedom of speech protection afforded in the First Amendment could be restricted if words represented “clear and present danger.”
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Senate rejected the treaty because they didn’t want to have too many alliances and if a war broke out they wouldn’t be forced to join
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Guaranteed American women’s right to vote
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Held in Antwerp, Belgium. US won 41 gold medals, 27 silver, and 27 bronze
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All negro baseball league founded by Rube Foster. It consisted of 8 teams.
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a bribery scandal involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding spanning from 1921-1923
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broke the all time home record which was previously 59. Ruth hit 60 in the regular season
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.
