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March 4, 1917 – President Wilson and Vice President Marshall begin their second terms; 1917 – U.S. enters World War I; 1917 – Espionage and Sedition Acts; 1917 – Lansing–Ishii Agreement; 1917 – National Hockey League formed; 1917 – U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark; 1917 – Temperance movement leads to prohibition laws ...
Democrats said it was a tax on the little man. It had greatest support in the Northeast, and greatest opposition in the South and West. The Midwest was the battle ground. [10] The great battle over the high Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act in 1910 ripped the Republicans apart and set up the realignment in favor of the Democrats. [11]
U.S. Marshals attempt to start a train during the strike in East St. Louis, Illinois. March 1886 (United States) The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 was a labor union strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers. [20] 1 May 1886 (United States)
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The battle ended after the United States Army, represented by the West Virginia Army National Guard, intervened by presidential order, and the miners, many of whom were veterans, declined to shoot at the soldiers. In the short term the battle was an overwhelming victory for coal industry owners and management.
This party system marked the first in a series of political realignments, a process in which a prominent third party coalition, often one that wins >10% of the popular vote in multiple states in a presidential election, realigns into one of the major parties, allowing that major party to dominate the federal government and/or presidency for the ...
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
1900: The War of the Golden Stool was a resistance by the Asante of West Africa against the imposition of colonial rule by the United Kingdom. 1901–1936: Holy Man's Rebellion. 1903: The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising breaks out in the Ottoman Empire. 1904: Revolution of 1904; 1904: A liberal revolution in Paraguay. 1904–1908: Macedonian ...