Policies/Acts
First proposed and failed in 1923, this amendment was passed on March 22, 1972 and guaranteed equal rights for both men and women.
Equal Rights Amendment
This terrorist organization believed in white supremacy and targeted and harassed mainly African-Americans, Jews, and Catholics.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This president invented New Nationalism, which called for the federal government to stabilize the economy by regulating the power of trusts.
Teddy Roosevelt
A popular form of music during this time period originally from the American south that was spread all over America during the Great Migration.
Passed in August 1920, this amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Signed June 28, 1919 following WWI, this treaty commonly known as the "war guilt" clause, forced Germany to take the blame for WWI and pay 33 million dollars.
Treaty of Versailles
An international organization formed after WWI that aimed to maintain world peace.
This president was known for his "Moral Diplomacy."
Woodrow Wilson
A popular group that aimed to fight against racial violence and lynching. Fought against the denial of voting rights, discrimination in employment, and segregation.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
When Alice Paul separated from NAWSA, she formed this group to protest for women's rights.
National Women's Party
Passed on May 18, 1917, this act gave the federal government the power to draft any men and eventually required all able men between the ages of 21-45 to register for the military.
Selective Service Act
This group, commanded by general John J. Pershing, was sent overseas as America's first army to fight on foreign soil.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
This president's form of foreign policy was known as "Dollar Diplomacy."
William Howard Taft
This group opposed the beliefs of the NAACP and believed in racial separation and the idea that colonization would always exist in the world, and the only way to avoid that is to go back to Africa.
United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
This cultural icon promoted women being more free, athletic, young, and independent, sometimes depicting her smoking or wearing less constricting clothing.
New Woman
Fueled by xenophobia, this act restricted immigration between 1917-1921 and was also known as the Immigration Restriction Act.
This Committee was intended to popularize the war by distributing pamphlets explaining the United States' war aims and aimed to unite Americans.
Committee on Public Information
This presidential candidate ran for the Democrats when they first joined with the Populists.
William Jennings Bryan
A informal group of African-American policy advisors who served for Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency.
Black Cabinet
This women was a muckraker who revealed the shady practices John D. Rockefeller had used to create his monopoly.
Ida B. Tarbell
Passed between 1917 and 1918, these acts violated free speech as they gave congress the power to silence and imprison those who talked bad about the government.
Espionage and Sedition Acts
A nonprofit organization founded in 1920 which wanted to defend individual liberties of every person.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
William McKinley
A jazz singer famous for her hit song "Strange Fruit".
Billie Holiday
The first women's rights group to call themselves "feminists," this group believed women should have the same sexual freedom as men did.
Greenwich Village Feminists