The Jungle
Civil Rights leader known for being the first African American man to graduate with a PhD from Harvard, and also was a co-founder of the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois
The British passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine. This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.
The Lusitania
This term was used to describe changing styles, life-choices, and attitudes for younger women living in the 1920s.
Flappers
The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.
Zimmerman Telegram (Note)
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.
The (First) Red Scare
Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war.
Korematsu v. US (1944)
This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."
Schenck v. US (1919)
Provided WWII veterans with low interest mortgages, college tuition, and vocational training.
GI Bill (1944) or the Servicemen Readjustment Act