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in 1917 America had gone to war and nothing would ever be not just for the men and women overseas but also for the Americans with fine is over 2 million American soldiers boarding the transport ships Bound for France more than 1 million American women sustained wartime labor force a great many jobs which India sleeve been considered man's word for being filled by women the factory the ship and the Armed Forces swimming club the fields fix the cars ran the elevators and the streetcars and even wrote the traffic tickets President Wilson the same wages they had few did  even worse when the war was over and then return to the workforce a great many women were fired other women contributed to the war effort what are the gods and planted Victory Gardens others like Jane Addams simply demonstrating against Roar and militarism  as the war dragged on the nation began to appreciate the valuable contribution made by women in the war effort creating a prime opportunity for change in women's civil liberties  on January 1917 Alice Paul and Lucy Burns of the national woman's party took action demanding passage of a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage the right to vote  Wilson was out of office by the time 18th amendment was ratified but there was no doubt with the new role of women in America during World War 1 was a catalyst leading to the right to vote Society also had to come to grips with a new rule for African Americans like most Americans African Americans Association for the advancement of colored people to support the war effort I'm close our ranks shoulder-to-shoulder with their own white fellow citizens in the Allied nations are fighting for democracy  William Monroe Trotter editor Boston Guardian newspaper disagreed at home the war contributed to the large-scale migration of more than half a million African-Americans end of the industrialized cities of the North they provided the workforce desperately needed to produce wartime Goods in addition immigration into American hits slowed to a trickle many immigrants and return to their native homelands leaving more jobs to be filled despite the many women Floyd companies workers many African Americans were anxious to leave the South and its pattern of racial discrimination low pay and often life-threatening conditions between 1892 and 1919 approximately VINELink  when Northern manufacturing companies Central agents with free roll of tickets in the South looking hundreds of thousands of men and women voted trains headed for cities like Chicago the most widely read African American newspaper in the south southern African Americans to come north something even with the newspaper for advice dear sir I have a wife and one child and can hardly feed them I thought to write and asking for some information concerning how to get a pass for myself please don't publish this because we have to list it as around them ourselves because the white folks are angry now because the Negroes are going north able-bodied men and women came and found work in places are exceeding anything Americans could earn in the south  despite the opportunities in the north black Americans found some new and some know your problems in the North many blacks were forced to live in crowded segregated how to say and they paid ridiculously high rents for the dubious privilege African Americans were frequently denied membership in labor unions by worker therefore they were left few choices other than to accept this linger struggle Brittany laborious their feelings fueled by ignorant racist opinions instead of competing with lights some African American Insurance agencies undertaking other African-American men and women allowed few options what is domestic servants in the North look for a laundry syringes much money in a day and she made it back song  domestic servants could earn twice as much in a Northern home as a southern home but northern homes tended to be smaller and more modern so fewer African-Americans would being hired for full-time work Craigslist jobs what's the competition and racial tension between white and black workers lead to race riots in does in July of 1970 printable streets mindlessly stalking and killing blacks 949 African-Americans and nine one of their kids died the New York's be reported on the March or making a single gesticulation and protested in respectful silence against the rain knoblock segregation Jim Crow ISM in many other indignities to which race is unnecessarily subjective in the United States 17 year old swim from the black Beach to the white Beach on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago So Dope by the whites barbaric action blacks Ruble news of the vibrate server neighborhoods then within hours fighting broke out for three days and nights the riot went unchecked Joe Illinois state troopers finally restore is 38 people lost their 43 African-American and 15 white with another 520 citizens injury James Weldon Johnson Diplomat novelist critic and composer said the summer of 1919 was the red summer of 8 for the and racial violence  White America was learning what black Americans had known all along racial Prejudice wasn't a problem find the South which war was declared Conformity patriotism and can support you're the man to the ball Americans freedom of speech German American German Measles Tripper extinguish showing these settlements manifested into antique German violence the most notorious case occurred in Collinsville Illinois when german-born Robert breaker was finished intolerance friend young German Americans William Harding than governor of Iowa made of rash conversation in public places on trains over the telephone should be in the English language the Swedish Chef last year was in prison for preaching part of a funeral service for a soldier killed in the war and currents couldn't speak English did not sway the judge Governor Harding he didn't maintain that God did not hear prayers that was spoken in language Exchange  in June of 1917 Congress passed and President Wilson signed the Espionage Act and how many months later the Sedition Act for activities like interfering with the draft concerning war effort the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality claiming that there was a clear and present danger to free speech and a free press the result was is drinking warm contributing to the cause those working for a time including Saturday evening post and the New York Times  Robert Goldstein ran afoul of the law with his Phil the Spirit of 76 it was just a Superland movie about the Revolutionary War and of course the British war portrayed as America's enemy America and Great Britain war allies Goldstein was told to remove scenes of British soldiers shooting colonists. I'm sentenced to 10 years in a federal penitentiary Goldstein serve three years and his career never recovered under the Espionage and Sedition Acts was reserved for socialists in labor where's the founder of the Socialist Party and frequent presidential candidate Eugene Reed I have been accused of obstructing the war I've noticed settlement more war  undaunted Debs ran for president from his jail cell Atlanta prison in reaching for got almost a million votes in 1941 president Warren Harding the mutagen sentence the darkest a person who believes there should be no government was fined $10,000 and given two years in jail for the draft she was Prussia  leaving organize your big Bill Haywood was convicted of sabotaging the war effort because he encouraged to strike for fair pay and decent working conditions Haywood received two sentences name the ten years later on President Wilson's last day in office Congress repealed the Sedition Act I want to play while American soldiers phone for freedom in Europe freedom of speech and civil liberties would being denied to Americans at home thankful the war was coming to a conclusion Russia had already withdrawn from the battle after the Bolshevik Revolution the Allied Forces and this led to long-term by November 1918 the allies with fresh new American Four Seasons begin to turn the title and German soldiers begin to retreat how long are restaurants on the German Navy ordered its Fleet to sit on to see that the sailors Reef used in Germany soldiers and William started organizing revolutionary consoles the people of Berlin no final decisive battle was fought no Allied soldiers entered German territory instead the German war machine ground will halt of the 11th day in the 11th month of 1918 Germany agreed to a ceasefire Captain Eddie Rickenbacker America's East fighter pilot Flew Over The Trenches when this was declared full size No Man's Land The Trenches erupting Brown uniform men Ford out of the American trenches Ray green uniforms out of the German I watched them throw their helmets in the air the sky guns wave their hands suddenly gray uniforms mixed with brown I can see them hugging each other dancing jumping  the bloody Worchester was finally over during its four long years more than 30 Nations participated in battle and in debt is the war ended Americans faced still in the prices at home rip the country at approximately 25% of the population 500 thousand Americans died the epidemic and the weary America look to President Wilson and Victorious to deliver a lasting peace even before the war was over teen points speech we entered this world because violations of right that occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people in possible Wilson's first five points dealt with the issues he fell him caused War Nation should no longer engage in secret treaties the freedom receipts must be restored and tariffs should be lowered or removed altogether so free trade flourish Wilson arms race in stockpiling weapons declared Wilson's next points address Bowie Changes advocating the principle of self-determination Wilson wanted National boundaries to be drawn along these lines of Allegiance Wilson call for the formation of a League of Nations to eat one piece the members of the league would agree to each other grievances without going to war following the ceasefire in December of 1918 Wilson and his wife Insurance Bureau  210 division East Conference was the first time in history the American president left the United States Wilson was given a hero's welcome she ran the citizens of Europe song listen as their best help I watched in World Police but the politicians Europe the ticket early British prime minister Lloyd George make Germany pay and French prime minister George clemenceau who had moved through to German invasion of France resisted most to Wilson's IV the first and foremost goal of the peace treaty was to punish Germany so she could never wait or gather who defeated Central Powers Russia in the smaller Allied countries the so-called big for America Britain France and Italy hammered out the peace treaty among themselves time and again Wilson was forced to concede on LMN is 14 points in return for the establishment of the League of Nations on June 28th 1919 along with the leaders of the defeated Nations to sign the treaty  the treaty Versailles created nine new nations Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia what made temporary colonies under the rule of France and Great Britain until they were ready for Independence  Kristen Wilson did manage to prevent some of the extreme punishments for the treaty demilitarized Germany Banning her Air Force and navy and limiting her Army who only 100,000 men Germany was ordered to return all sessler on to France Germany had to pay reparations 33 billion dollars to the allies and admit total responsibility for the war  certainly Germany had played a major what started World War 1 other countries were German citizens and there was no way the country could never the meaning peace usual Wilson return home to Whittemore disappointment instead of enthusiasm support for the treaty and the League of Nations he found most disinterested in the foreign policy and wanted to return to the of isolationism the republican-controlled Congress some of the provisions of the treaty Wilson was equally stubborn and refused even the smallest delivering 35 speeches and 22 days to convince Americans that the treaty deserved approval The Hope public opinion would force the Senate to join the League of Nations Americans greeted enthusiastically 19 19th in Pueblo Colorado things to me to stand between us and the rejection or location of this treaty the serried ranks of those boys in khaki not only those boys who came home but those deer ghosts that still Deploy on the fields of france the campaign however proved too much for President Woodrow Wilson on October ocean Lanes in Envelope as a result of his stroke for more than 2 months still the Senate fail to ratify the United States signed A Separate Peace Treaty with Germany buttons three amendments were passed during the Wilson Administration Minooka Hall and the 19th granting suffrage for women he is remembered for his Progressive reforms for his favorite n convince the Senate to join the League of Nations and foremost Krampus 1919 the crew killing 20 years later can predict with certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concern the method by which to prevent it the mirror to remain an observer at League of Nations meetings but without us participation the legal length cloth and eventually fall tree World War I left the country sound over the loss of so many lives completely divided about the League of Nations and what was to be quickest role in the winter soldier of people's aggressive area Americans along for the what new president Warren G Harding called normalcy  the next decade 1920s new personal freedoms and stunning social changes and forever known as The Roaring Twenties LOL

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