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Year of Turbulence and Progress in 1916
A year-end survey highlights major events across 1916: Villa's raid on Columbus, U.S. military deployments on the Mexican border, and battles with Carranza. Wilson wins re election as Hughes withdraws, and women aid campaigns while anti saloon measures expand across states. Congress funds defense and rural credits while naval war concerns grow.
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United States Army
United States
Porfirio Diax
Carrizal
Rio Grande
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FE. J. Scott
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Trevino
General Y Pershing
el Vaso
Mexico
Villistas
Chihuahua City
Carranvistas
Charles EB. Hughes
Supreme Court
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
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Wilson
California
Congress
Germany
Lusitania
Senate
House
Reguard Army
National Guard
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
West Virginia
New York Harbor
Victoriano Huerta
J. T. Trowbridge
Robert Burns Wilson
Clara
Louisa Welloge
Timothy Dwight
James J. Hill
Hetty Green
James Whitcomb Riley
John P. St. John
Horace White
Seth Low
Frank Dempster Sherman
Charles Tate Russell
John JD. Archbold
Percival Lowell
Louis D. Brandeis
Bartholdi
von Hinttnburg
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Belgium
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Alsace
Bulgaria
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