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16 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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Or the transition from wartime to peacetime production levels, caused social and economic strain
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Seattle General strike
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Began on february 6 at 10:00 A.M. Some 60,000 workers left their jobs to praticipate in the strike, wich was extremely well organized
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Boston police strike
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Futher inflamed antilabor sentiments
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United mine workers strike
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The last major strike of 1919 erupted in november. Some 400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines in the united mine workers strike
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John L. Lewis
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the newly elected president of the UMW
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Then, less than one month later, a bomb damaged the house of attorney general
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Palmer Raids
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Began in november 1919
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Nicola sacco
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Was a shoemaker, and bartolomeo vanzetti peddled from a pushcart
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Warren G. Harding
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Seeking president candidate with broad appeal, republication party nominated
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Charles dawes
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Set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending.
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Fordney-mcCumber
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In the tariff 1922
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Mergers
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The combining of two or more companis
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American plan
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Wich supported union-free open shops
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Feminists
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Working conditions also became a divisive issue among women's rights activists, often called feminist
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Equal rights amendment
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Division in womens movement emerged in the debate over
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the U.S women's Bureau, was one of the opponents of the Era
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