The Secretary of the Interior who accepted bribes from an oil company and started the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
an emergency immigration law was passed by congress in 1921. it limited the number of people admitted from eastern and southern Europe.
Chateau-Thierry
1st significant engagement of American troops in WWI
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the US, known for WWI leadership, created Federal Reserve, FTC, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage, Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations
Article X
Part of the Treaty of Versailles, said American military committed to foreign war. Republicans object to this.
Alice Paul
Leads White House Demonstration, head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority.
Bolshevik Revolution
The second stage of the Russian Revolution when Lenin and his Bolshevik party seized power and established a communist state.
Jeanette Rankin
First woman to serve in Congress. Suffragist and pacifist, voted against US involvement in WWI and WWII.
McNary-Haugen Bill
Guaranteeing minimum prices for agricultural goods, vetoed by Coolidge.
Flappers
Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
