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Wilson's Presidency term
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World War 1
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Lusitania
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Year of first woman elected to Congress
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Selective Service Act
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Espionage Act
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Lenin Led a Russian Revolution
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Influenza epidemic
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Wilson's 14 points
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Sedition Act
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Schenk vs. US
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US rejects League of Nations membership
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US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
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End of the Great Migration
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19th Amendment
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Insulin
It was in 1921 that Canadian physician Frederick Banting and medical student Charles H. Best would be credited with discovering the hormone insulin in the pancreatic extracts of dogs. Banting and Best injected the hormone into a dog and found that it lowered high blood glucose levels to normal. -
Discovery of King Tut's tomb
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanned the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
First Mickey Mouse cartoon
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Wall Street crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the greatest stock market crash in the history of the United States. It happened on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday October 29, 1929, now known as Black Tuesday. The crash started the Great Depression and stock prices did not reach the same level until late 1954.
