WW1 APUSH Study Set

This Act prohibited uttering, writing, or publishing "any abusive or disloyal language" concerning the flag, Constitution, government, or armed forces.

• Fordney McCumber act

• Sedition Act

• Homestead Act

• Espionage Act

The right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters without having to worry about war interference.

• Freedom of the Ocean

• International Sea Act (1917)

• Freedom of the Sea

The overthrow of Russia's Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 by Lenin and his forces, made possible by the government's continuing defeat in the war, its failure to bring political reform, and a further decline in the conditions of everyday life.

• Bolshevik Revolution

• Russian Revolution

• Fyodor Revolution

• Lenin Revolution

This Act passed in 1917 made it a crime to obstruct military recruitment, to encourage mutiny, or to aid the enemy by spreading lies.

• Sedition Act

• Espionage Act

• Fordney-McCumber Act

• Homestead Act

A large group of people that built support for the war effort in Europe among Americans. It depicted Germans and other enemies on bad terms, and served to censor the press.

• Permanent Select Committee

• Committee for Public Information

• Anti-German Committee

• Committee on Commerce

A 1917 intercepted dispatch in which Germans foreign secretary urged Mexico to join the Central Powers and promised that if the United States entered the war, Germany would help Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

• Espionage Act

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Mexico's Standardization

• Bolshevik Revolution

A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I. Justice Holmes declared that government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils: United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a "clear and present danger.

• Freedom of Speech Impeachment (1919)

• Spokes Monkey Trial

• Holmes Conviction

• Schenck v. United States

The Democratic representative in the presidential elections of 1912 and 1916: 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership. He was elected into the presidency as a minority president. He was born in Virginia and was raised in a very religious family. He was widely known for his political sermons.

• Henry Daugherty

• Herbert Hoover

• Woodrow Wilson

• Calvin Coolidge

American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy.

• Marie Curie

• Margaret Sanger

• Katharine Graham

• Mary Schmitt

Governor of Wisconsin who was a progressive Republican leader. His "Wisconsin Idea" was the model for state progressive government. He used the "brain trust", a panel of experts, to help him create effective, efficient government.

• Herbert Hoover

• Robert LaFollette

• Henry Daugherty

• Warren Harding