WWI & 1920s

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Why did women picket the White House during World War I?

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They were protesting for women to gain the right to vote.

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Who was the socialist labor leader who was imprisoned under the Espionage Act?

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Eugene V. Debs

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What caused the US entry into World War I?

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Zimmerman Telegram

Front

This occurred when Black Americans moved from the rural South to the industrial North for war production jobs and in attempt to escape racial prejudice.

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Great Migration

Front

This permitted the government to suppress free speech or actions that might disrupt the war effort.

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Espionage Act

Front

This extended from the Espionage Act to ensure that citizens could not interfere with the war effort and further permitted the government to suppress free speech.

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Sedition Act

Front

This created pressure for the US to get involved in WWI, resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania.

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unrestricted submarine warfare

Front

This resulted in a decade of Prohibition.

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18th Amendment

Front

This ensured that women gained the right to vote.

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19th Amendment

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The Senate would not approve of the US joining this organization because of concerns about entangling alliances that might drag the US into future global conflicts. Options: 14 Points, League of Nations, Red Scare, Isolationism

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League of Nations