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President Wilson was ... A 1917 political cartoon published in New York Evening Mail about the East St. Louis riots in 1917 with the caption reading, "Mr. President, ...
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Editorial cartoon by William Charles Morris in New York Evening Mail about the East St. Louis riot of 1917. The caption reads, "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?", referring to Wilson's war message, "The world must be made safe for democracy." The Great Migration of African Americans out of the South surged in 1917 and ...
Congress and Senate override a veto by President Woodrow Wilson to reinstate the Immigration Act of 1917, which allows more restrictions on immigration to the U.S., including the wholesale ban of people from much of Asia. [2] The U.S. Army force under command of John J. Pershing reached Columbus, New Mexico, ending the Pancho Villa Expedition. [3]
President Wilson announces the break in official relations with the German Empire, resulting from unrestricted submarine warfare, in an address to Congress on February 3, 1917. The second round of unrestricted submarine warfare was communicated to the Americans on January 31, 1917.
The second inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States was held privately on Sunday, March 4, 1917, at the President's Room inside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., and publicly on Monday, March 5, 1917, at the East Portico of the Capitol.
President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917. After war was declared, war bond posters demonized Germany Young men at the first national registration day held in association with the Selective Service Act of 1917 .
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...