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Wilson’s Presidency
Woodrow Wilson served as the 28th president of the US -
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WWI
July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918 The First World War, also known as the Great War. -
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Lusitania
1915 RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U- boat off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. Their sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany two years later. -
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Great Migration Timeframe
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern US to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
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Rankin
A republican from Montana, she was the first women elected into congress -
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Selective Service Act
An act requiring all men in the us between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. -
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Espionage Act
The Espionage Act made it a crime for any person to convey information intendedto inference with the US armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. -
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Influenza (Flu) Epidemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic ( also known as the Spanish Flu), was an usually deadly influenza pandemic. -
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Wilson’s 14 points
A statement of principals of peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end WWI. -
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Sedition Act
"An act making it a crime to ""willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal or abusive language about the form of the Goverm=nment of the United States." -
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Schneck vs. US
A landmark US Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act during WWI. -
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US Senate rejects treaty to Versailles
For the first time, the Senate rejected a peace treaty. By a vote of 39 to 55, far short of the required two-thirds majority, the Senate denied consent to the Treaty of Versailles. ... The United States never ratified the Treaty of Versailles, nor did it join the League of Nations. -
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19th amendment
Allowed women to vote -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery scandal involving the administration of president Warren G. Harding. -
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Scopes Monkey Trial
John T. Scopes is tried for teaching evolution Scopes Trial, also called Scopes Monkey Trial, (July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, U.S.), highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. -
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Charles Lindberg
Flies from NY to Paris -
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Franklin Roosevelt
Is elected governor of NY Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928 and served from 1 January 1929 until his election as President of the United States in 1932. -
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St. Valentine’s Day massacre
Five of Al Capone’s rivals are killed Four men dressed as police officers enter gangster Bugs Moran's headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago, line seven of Moran's henchmen against a wall, and shoot them to death. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, as it is now called, was the culmination of a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs Moran. -
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1930
Unemployment reaches 4 to 5 million Real wages rose by 16 percent between 1929 and 1932, while the unemployment rate ballooned from 3 to 23 percent. Real wages remained high throughout the rest of the decade, although unemployment never dipped below 9 percent, no matter how it is measured.