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16 Cards in this Set
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Sedition Act |
Extended the Espionage Act to cover a broader range of offences notably speech and the expression of opinion the cast the government or the war effort in a negative light |
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19th Amendment |
Ended women's suffrage |
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Treaty of versailles |
Ended the first ww1 |
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17th Amendment |
Established that states will have two senators elected by the people |
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Interstate Commerce Commission |
It was charged with regulating economics and services of specific carriers engage and transportation between states |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote |
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Social Gospel |
Dealt with social inequalities such as poverty alcoholism crime racial tensions slums unclean environments child labor Etc |
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Christianity and social crisis |
A social commentary by a noted Theologian on how religion and modern society can fall away from each other or merge to form a stronger society and a better religion |
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League of Nations |
An intergovernmental organization as a result of the Paris peace conference that ended the first World War |
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Upton Sinclair |
An American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943 |
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James Weldon Johnson |
Was an American Author educator lawyer Diplomat songwriter and civil rights activist |
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Neutrality Act |
Limited the u.s. involvement in future Wars based on the dissolution of World War 1 |
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Zimmerman Telegram |
was a secret diplomatic communication from Germany to Mexico proposing a military Alliance entering World War |
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Selective Service Act |
Authorized United States federal government to raise a national Army for service in World War 1 through conscription |
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Fourteen points |
Was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War 1 |
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National origins Act |
a law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from the Southern and Eastern Europe and virtully excluded Asians |
