World War I, the Twenties, and Economic Collapse (1912-1929)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1912 | Wilson elected president |
| 1913 | Underwood Tariff Federal Reserve Act 16th Amendment (income tax) ratified 17th Amendment (direct senator election) ratified |
| 1914 | Clayton Antitrust Act Panama Canal Opens World War I begins |
| 1915 | Germans sink Lusitania |
| 1916 | Margaret Sanger organizes New York Birth Control League Gen. Pershing pursues Poncho Villa in Mexico |
| 1917 | Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare U.S. declares war on Germany War Industrie Board established Espionage Act passed Russian Revolution Committee on Public Information established |
| 1918 | Wilson proposes Fourteen Points Armistice ends war U.S. troops intervene in Russia |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles Red Scare and Palmer raids Senate rejects U.S. role in League of Nations 18th Amendment (Prohibition) ratified Over 20 percent of U.S. labor force goes on strike Schenck v. United States Race Riots and lynchings throughout U.S. |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment (women's suffrage) ratified Sacco and Vanzetti arrested Harding elected president First commercial radio broadcast |
| 1921 | Washington Naval Conference Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration |
| 1923 | Teapot Dome scandal Marcus Garvey claims 6 million followers Ku Klux Klan claims 5 million members |
| 1924 | National Origins Act sets 2 percent quotas for immigration |
| 1925 | Scopes Tennessee evolution trial Model T Ford drops to cost of $290 (three months' wages) |
| 1927 | Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Sacco and Vanzetti executed |
| 1928 | Hoover elected president Fifty-two nations sign Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war |
| 1929 | Stock Market crashes in October |
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