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Wilson’s Presidency
A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. He led America through WWI. -
World War I
World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. -
Sinking of Lusitania
Attack on the ocean liner Lusitania. It would take another two years for the U.S. to declare war on Germany but after this event more Americans began to speak out in favor of joining the conflict on the Allies’ side. -
Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
Lenin and Russian Revolution
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Jeannette Rankin Elected to Congress
An American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. -
Selective Service Act
The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. -
Espionage Act
The act prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. -
Influenza Epidemic
The influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. -
Wilson's Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
Sedition Act
The permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States. -
Schenck vs. US
A landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917. -
US Senate Rejects Treaty of Versailles
The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
Emergency Quota Act
A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants is established by the United States Congress by curbing legal immigration. -
Armaments Congress Ends
An agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
Calvin Coolidge Wins First Election
An American politician and lawyer who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. -
Air Commerce Act is Passed
The act provides aid and assistance to the airline industry, plus federal oversight under the Department of Commerce for civil air safety. -
Postwar Prosperity and Stock Market Crash
The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
