1917 - Population
Population
A U.S. immigration bill enacted January 29 over a second veto by President Wilson requires that immigrants pass a literacy test in any language. Inspired by the Immigration Restriction League founded in 1894, it becomes law February 5, excluding immigrants from most of Asia and the Pacific Islands, but to relieve the distress of Russian Jews it exempts refugees from religious persecution (see 1921). The U.S. population passes 100 million.
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Germany : in World War I|U-boats|Russia|Dewey, Adm. George|Zimmermann note|Mexico : and U.S., (Zimmermann note)' |United States : in World War I|Brazil : in World War I|Peru : in World War I|La Follette, Robert M.|filibusters : cloture rule and|Wilson, Woodrow|Russia : in World War I|Petrograd|Nicholas II of Russia|Russia : Romanov dynasty in|Chkheidze, N.S.|Lenin, V.I.|Conrad von Hötzendorf, Franz|Page, Walter Hines|Jusserand, Jean-Jules|Rankin, Jeanette|La Follette, Robert M.|Byng, Julian H.G.|Byng, Julian H.G., Viscount|Vimy Ridge|Arras : Battle of|Allenby, Gen. Edmund|Ludendorff, Erich|Plumer, Herbert C.O.|Canada : in World War II|Ball, Albert|Richthofen, Manfred von|Gwynne-Vaughan, Helen|aviation : Gwynne-Vaughan and|Painlevé, Paul|Pétain, Henri|France : in World War I|Lloyd George, David|Sims, William S.|Selective Service Act|Pershing, John J.|Funston, Frederick|Villa, Pancho|Constantine I of Greece|Venizelos, Eleutherios|Black Hand society|Dimitrijevic, Dragutin|Ireland : Britain and|Markievicz, Constance, Countess de|Lloyd George, David|Ashe, Thomas|Britain : and Ireland|Britain : Ireland and|Pieck, Wilhelm|Zetkin, Clara|Espionage Act, U.S.|Goldman, Emma|Stokes, Rose Pastor|Wilson, Woodrow|Luce, Stephen B.|Sims, William S.|Navy, U.S. : Sims and|Navy, U.S. : in World War I|mustard gas|Lewisite|Kerenski, Aleksandr|Russia : in World War I|Kolchak, Aleksandr V.|Kornilov, Lavr G.|Milford Haven, L.A. Mountbatten, marquess of|Clemenceau, Georges|Malvy, Louis-Jean|Ribot, Alexandre|Painlevé, Paul|Daudet, Léon|Passchendaele, Battle of|Ypres, Battles of|Plumer, Herbert|Gough, Hubert|Below, Otto von|Freyberg, Bernard C.|Navy, Royal : aircraft carriers|U-boats|Mata Hari|Italy : in World War I|Austria-Hungary : in World War I|Capello, Luigi|Diaz, Armando|Caporetto|Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of|Maude, Gen. Sir Frederick S.|Baghdad : British in|Lawrence, T.E.|Hejaz Railway|Falkenhayn, Erich von|Balfour Declaration|Balfour, Arthur J.|Britain : and Palestine|Palestine : British in, (Balfour Declaration)|Allenby, Edmund|Ottoman Empire : and Palestine|Weizmann, Chaim|Sokolow, Nahum|Rothschild, Lionel W., 2nd Baron : & |Sanders, Otto L. von|Falkenhayn, Erich von|Jerusalem : British in|Portugal : in Africa|Germany : in Africa|Russia : revolutionists in|Petrograd|Lenin, V.I.|St. Petersburg : Winter Palace in|Kerenski, Aleksandr|Kornilov, Lavr G.|Trotsky, Leon|Reilly, Sidney|Kerenski, Aleksandr|Lenin, V.I.|Chkheidze, N.S.|Trotsky, Leon|Stalin, Josef|Kolchak, Aleksandr V.|Moscow|Russia : revolutionists in|Dzerzhinsky, Feliks|KGB|Svinhufvud, Pehr Evind|Finland : independence of|Finland|Clemenceau, Georges|France : in World War I|Cambrai : Battle of|Britain : in World War I|Byng, Julian H.G., Viscount|Germany : in World War I|Sarawak|Brooke, Charles A.J.|Brooke, Charles V. de W.|Duan Qirui (Tuan Ch'i-jui)|China : in World War I|China : and Japan|Japan : and China|China : and Germany|Puerto Rico : and U.S.|United States : and Puerto Rico|Muñoz Rivera, Luis|Puerto Rico : in World War I|Denmark : and U.S.|Denmark : in West Indies|Virgin Islands|Choate, Joseph H.|Bowell, Mackenzie|St. Louis : race riots in|DuBois, W.E.B.|Johnson, James Weldon|NAACP|Houston : race riot in|International Women's Day|Russia : labor in|New Orleans : prostitution in|Storyville, New Orleans "red-light district,"|prostitution : New Orleans|Pankhurst, Emmeline|Ferguson, Miriam "Ma," |Lockwood, Belva|Canada : suffrage in|British Columbia : suffrage in|Ontario : suffrage in|Canada : women's rights in|National Woman's Party|Paul, Alice|Wilson, Woodrow|New York State : suffrage in|Lions Clubs|millionaires|Brady, Diamond Jim|Chaplin, Charles|Pickford, Mary|Fairbanks, Douglas|Goldman, Sachs|banks : Goldman, Sachs|copper : in Montana|Montana : mining in|Bisbee, Ariz. : copper mining at|copper : Bisbee, Ariz., and|Schneiderman, Rose|Anglo American Corp. of South Africa|Oppenheimer, Ernest|diamonds : De Beers and|De Beers Consolidated Mines|United States : income tax in|income tax, U.S.|Union Carbide|Cartier's|pearls|watch : wrist|watch : Tank|D'Arcy, William Knox|Phillips Petroleum|Oklahoma : oil in|Oklahoma : oil in|Cullen, Hughroy|Texas : oil in|electric signs|Malone, Dudley Field|Matson, William|Matson Navigation Co.|trolley cars : U.S.|bridges : Hell Gate|Hell Gate Bridge|Pennsylvania Railroad|Lindenthal, Gustav|Lindenthal, Gustave|Penn Station|Stop-Look-Listen sign|Australia : railroads in|railroads : Australia|France : railroads in|railroads : in France|Wilson, Woodrow|McAdoo, William|Zeppelin, Ferdinand von|Chance Vought|Vought, Chance|Bellanca, Giuseppe|automobile : U.S. production of|Ford Motor Company : Model T|Lincoln motorcar|Leland, Henry M.|BMW|National Cash Register Co.|Patterson, John F.|electron|Millikan, Robert|atomic theory : Millikan|Townsend, John S.E.|Hull, Albert W.|crystallography : Hull and|zoology : Thompson and|Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth|Baeyer, Adolf von|Frobenius, Georg|Buchner, Eduard|Russia : typhus in|typhus : in Russia|Hérelle, Felix d'|bacteriophage|mental illness|Wagner-Jauregg, Julius|syphilis : paresis and|Behring, Emil von|Kocher, Emil|osteopathy|Still, Andrew T.|Salvation Army|Barton, Bruce|Cabrini, Frances X.|Rosenwald, Julius|Baldwin, William, Jr.|Washington, Booker T.|Gibbons, Floyd P.|Britain : suffrage in|Espionage Act, U.S.|Zamenhof, L.L.|Esperanto|Otis, Harrison Gray|Seven Arts magazine|Bourne, Randolph S.|Day, Dorothy|The Masses|Eastman, Max|comic strips : "The Gumps," |Chicago : Tribune|Patterson, Joseph M.|comic strips : "Katzenjammer Kids,"% |comic strips : "The Captain and the Kids,"|New York : World|comic strips : "The Toonerville Trolley,"+ |Fox, Fontaine|Forbes magazine|Forbes, B.C.|Armstrong, Edwin|radio (wireless) : Armstrong and|Sarnoff, David|radio (wireless) : Sarnoff and|Wilson, H.W., Co.|Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature|World Book encyclopedia|Abbott, Grace|Lawrence, David|Garland, Hamlin|Morley, Christopher|Brentano, Franz|Durkheim, Emile|The Book of the Martyrs (s)|Duhamel, Georges|Abel Sanchez (n)|Unamuno, Miguel de|South Wind (n)|Douglas, Norman|Nocturne (n)|Swinnerton, Frank|The Rise Of David Levinsky (n)|Cahan, Abraham|Hergesheimer, Joseph|Dane, Clemence|Webb, Mary|Mansfield, Katherine|Jiménez, Juan Ramon|Gale, Zona|Kerr, Sophie|Eliot, T.S.|Sassoon, Siegfried|Valéry, Paul|Lindsay, Vachel|Robinson, Edwin Arlington|Millay, Edna St. Vincent|Williams, William Carlos|Bishop, John Peale|Reyes, Alfonso|Jiménez, Juan Ramon|Teasdale, Sara|Akhmatova, Anna|Thomas, Edward|Hulme, T.E.|Understood Betsy (j)|Fisher, Dorothy Canfield|Montgomery, L.M.|Léger, Fernand|Matisse, Henri|Picasso, Pablo|Bonnard, Pierre|Chagall, Marc|Picabia, Francis|Modigliani, Amédéo|Schiele, Egon|Kandinsky, Wassily|Sargent, John Singer|O'Keeffe, Georgia|Hassam, Childe|Ryder, Albert Pinkham|Degas, Edgar|Mondrian, Piet|Independents exhibition|Grand Central Palace|Huntington, Archer M.|Uncle Sam|Flagg, James Montgomery|Hoffman, Malvina|Rodin, Auguste|Stieglitz, Alfred|Strand, Paul|Hine, Lewis W.|Donnelly, Dorothy|Butterfield, Everett|Kaiser, Georg|Bainter, Fay|Hull, Shelly|Tabor, Richard|De Becker, Harold|The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (p)|Seven Women (p)|Barrie, James M.|Cadell, Jean|Vanbrugh, Irene|Pallenberg, Max|Right You Are—If You Think You Are (p)|Pirandello, Luigi|The Silken Ladder (p)|Chiarelli, Luigi|Middleton, George|Bolton, Guy|Claire, Ina|Galloway, Louise|Scott, Cyril|Hatton, Frederic|Hatton, Fanny|Vivian, Percival|Abbott, Marion|Carillo, Leo|Baxter, Warner|Mack, Willard|Findlay, Thomas B.|Ulric, Lenore|Dear Brutus (p)|du Maurier|Forbes, Norman|The Gas Trilogy (p)|Kaiser, George|In the Zone (p)|O'Neill, Eugene : In the Zone|O'Neill, Eugene : The Long Voyage Home|The Long Voyage Home (p)|Larrimore, Francine|Menken, Helen|Why Marry? (p)|Williams, Jesse Lynch|Winwood, Estelle|Cody, W.F.|Tree, Herbert Beerbohm|Kendal, William|Hale, Walter|air conditioning : theater|movie theaters : Rivoli|Rivoli movie theater|Times Square|Lamb, Thomas W.|architects : Lamb, Thomas W.|Rothafel, Roxy|Griffith, D.W.|Hearts of the World (f)|Gish, Lillian|Gish, Dorothy|Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (f)|Pickford, Mary|Marion, Frances|Teddy at the Throttle (f)|Beery, Wallace|Swanson, Gloria|Chaplin, Charles|The Cure (f)|Brady, William A.|Easton, Florence|Reszke, Edouard de|Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (b)|Scarlatti, Domenico|Cocteau, Jean|Parade (b)|Satie, Erik|Picasso, Pablo|Apollinaire, Guillaume|surrealism|Humphrey, Doris|St. Denis, Ruth|Shawn, Ted|Bloch, Ernest|Wittgenstein, Paul|Strauss, Richard|Ravel, Maurice|Prokofiev, Sergei|Hindemith, Paul|Britten, Benjamin|Have a Heart (m)|Dresser, Louise|Bolton, Guy|Wodehouse, P.G.|Kern, Jerome|Love o' Mike (m)|Webb, Clifton|Smith, Harry B.|The Maid of the Mountains (m)|Lonsdale, Frederick|"Love Will Find a Way," |Oh, Boy! (m)|Davies, Marion|Oliver, Edna May|"Till the Clouds Roll By," |The Passing Show (m)|Hopper, De Wolf|Romberg, Sigmund|Atteridge, Harold|"Goodbye Broadway, Hello France," : & |Davis, Benny|The (Ziegfeld) Follies (m)|Cantor, Eddie|Buck, Gene|Fields, W.C.|Rogers, Will|Brice, Fanny|Dickson, Dorothy|Hubbell, Raymond|Stamper, Dave|Herbert, Victor|Maytime (m)|Wood, Peggy|Stall, Karl|Young, Rida Johnson|"Will You Remember (Sweetheart)?,"|Burnside, R.H.|Golden, John L.|Elsie, Lily|Monckton, Lionel|Talbot, Howard|Ross, Adrian|Leave It to Jane (m)|Stone, Fred|Caldwell, Anne|Caryll, Ivan|Over the Top (m)|Astaire, Fred|Astaire, Adele|Eaton, Mary|Going Up (m)|Craven, Frank|Meek, Donald|Day, Edith|Hirsch, Louis A.|Harbach, Otto|Montgomery, James|Herbert, Victor|Holmes, Oliver Wendell : Jr.|ASCAP|Original Dixieland Jazz Band|"The Darktown Strutters' Ball,"|jazz|"Tiger Rag," |Oliver, "King," |Morton, "Jelly Roll," |Ory, Kid|Armstrong, Louis|Courtneidge, Cicely|Lloyd, Marie|Ford, Florrie|Tilley, Vesta|Miller, Gertie|Hulbert, Jack|Rubens, Paul A.|Montgomery, Dave|"Over There," |Cohan, George M.|"You're in the Army Now," |Jones, Isham|Taylor, Tell|"Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here," : & |Morse, Theodore|"Back Home in Indiana," |Hanley, James F.|"Smiles," |"For Me and My Gal," |Leslie, Edgar|Goetz, E. Ray|"They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me,"|Fisher, Fred|McCarthy, Joseph|"Oh Johnny," |"The Bells of St. Mary's," |Furber, Douglas|Joplin, Scott|Murray, Robert|Bjurstedt Mallory, Molla|Fitzsimmons, Bob|hockey, ice|swimwear|brassiere|mascara|Maybelline Co.|outboard motors : Johnson|Johnson outboard motors|cigarettes : U.S. production of|cigarettes : Camel|Pershing, John J.|Lenin, V.I.|St. Petersburg : Winter Palace in|Petrograd|Bali : earthquake in|earthquakes : Bali|China : earthquakes in|earthquakes : China|New York : water supply of|McKinley, Mount|Alaska : national park in|Halifax : explosion in|Smith-Hughes Act|Sunsweet Growers|wheat : price of|Jones, Donald F.|corn (maize) : hybrid|Appleby, John F.|Boston : food riots in|Philadelphia : food riots in|New York : food riots in|kosher foods : Brooklyn, N.Y.|bread : British, in World War II|Devenport, H.E. Kearley, Viscount|Berlin : in World War I|Wilson, Woodrow|Hoover, Herbert C.|United States : in World War I|rickets|Denmark : in World War I|xerophthalmia|Smith-Hughes Act|American Dietetic Association|Evans, Alice|milk : safety of|milk : Bang's disease and|Birdseye, Clarence|frozen foods : Birdseye and|Del Monte|food : canning of|pineapple : Del Monte|pineapple : Philippine|Hartford, George Huntington|A&P|Handwerker, Nathan|frankfurters (bangers, hot dogs, wieners) : Nathan's Famous|United States : immigration to|Wilson, Woodrow|United States : population of, (1917)
