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Jim Crow Laws
Were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
he Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Eugene V. Debs
Was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Royal Navy blockaded Germany. 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard killed, leaving 761 survivors., Turned international opinion against Germany. -
Zimmerman Telegram
An internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office, proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico -
Sedition Act
Was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
18th-21st amendments
18th- prohibits sale of alcohol
19th- prohibits right to vote based on sex
20th- Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President and Senators and Representatives end and begin.
21st- Repeals the 18th Amendment and makes it a federal offense to transport or import intoxicating liquors into US states and territories where such transport or importation is prohibited by the laws of those states and territories. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census, down from the 3% cap set by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which used the Census of 1910. -
John Scopes - The Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Red Scare
Is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.