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Woodrow Wilson's proposal to ensure peace after World War 1, calling for an end to secret treaties, widespread arms reduction, National self-determination, and a new League of Nations. |
Fourteen Points 1918 |
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A law prohibiting interference with the draft and other acts of national disloyalty. Together with the Sedition Act of 1918 which added penalties for abusing the government in writing, it created a climate that was unfriendly to civil liberties. |
Espionage Act 1917 |
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The movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban north and to the west and two major waves. The first, from World War II until the onset of the Great Depression, brought more than 1.5 million migrants to the northern cities. From 1940 to 1970, another 5 million left the South, push off the land by the merchandise ation of cotton farming and Lord north and west by hopes for greater Economic Opportunity and more Equitable political participation. After 1970, increasing numbers of African-Americans tracked back and to the South and what was called the new Great Migration, as new jobs became more plentiful in the south in the older industrial cities of the north and racial relations improved in the south. |
Great Migration |
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Gave women the right to vote, more than 70 years after the first organized calls for women's suffrage and Sienna Falls, New York. |
19th Amendment 1920 |
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Treaty signed after 6 months of tough negotiations, establishing terms of settlement for the first world war. Article 231, the war guilt clause, blamed the war on Germany, forcing German disarmament and saddling Germany with heavy reparations payments. Germans to tested the treaty as too harsh, the French feared it was too weak, and the US Senate rejected it, largely because it obliged the United States to join the League of Nations. |
Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
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Great Britain, Russia, and France, later joined the United States, formed this alliance against the Central Powers in World War. |
Allies |
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Germany and Austria-Hungary, later joined by turkey and Bulgaria, made up this alliance against the Allies in World War II. |
Central Powers |
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Establish quotas for immigration to the United States. Also known as the National Origins Act. Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe was sharply curtailed, while immigrants from Asia were shut out all together. |
Immigration Act of 1924 |
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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, ushering in the era known as prohibition. |
18th Amendment 1919 |
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A federal act enforcing the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. |
Volstead Act 1919 |
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Abolish slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the senate in 1864 and by the house in 1865. |
The 13th Amendment |
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. |
The 15th Amendment |
