U.S. History

By ericaneel

  • Jim Crow laws

    laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Act that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania during WWI

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    it proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico

  • 18th amendment

    The 18th amendment prohibited alcohol in the United States

  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment is basically the right for any citizen to vote even women!

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States

  • John Scopes The Monkey Trial

    American legal case in which a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act

  • 20th amendment

    it moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20

  • 21 amendment

    the 21 amendment repealed the 18th amendment