The effect of the war's end at home
WWI
Troops coming back home
The 17th Ammendment
Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, the 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.
The 19th Ammendment
On March 22, 1920. Women in the U.S. gained the right to vote from president Warren G. Harding.
The 18th Ammendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States, which made the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal (but not the consumption).
The Palmer Raids
In 1919 Woodrow Wilson appointed A. Mitchell Palmer as his attorney general. Palmer recruited John Edgar Hoover as his special assistant and together they used the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act to launch a campaign against radicals and left-wing organizations.