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33 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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Transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
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Seattle General strike
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Began February 6 at 10am some 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
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Boston police strike
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1919 strike for police officers seeking better pay and working comditions
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United mine workers strike
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400,000 workers walked out of the mines
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John L. Lewis
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The UMV was organized by him
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Red scare
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Period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney general
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Palmer raids
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Began in November 1919 and peaked in January 2, 1920
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Nicola Sacco
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A shoe maker that was charged with the murders of of a paymaster and a guard during a 1920 payroll robbery
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Bartolommeo Vanzetti
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Peddled fish from a push cart that was also charged with the murders of of a paymaster and a guard during a 1920 payroll robbery
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Warren g. Harding
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Nominee for president by the republican party
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of the treasury
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Charles Dawes
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Set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
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Pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all time high
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Mergers
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The combining of two or more companies
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American plan
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supported union free open shops
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Feminists
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Women's rights activists
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Constitutional amendment proposed by congress in 1923 by Alice Paul of the national woman's party
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the U.S. women's bureau
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Teapot dome scandal
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Most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding administration
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Albert fall
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Persuaded secretary of the navy Edwin Denby to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
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Calvin Coolidge
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Vice President that was sworn in as president after hardings death
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Alfred e. smith
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New York governor, a moderate progressive
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William Joseph Simmons
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Preacher who reestablished the KKK
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David Stephenson
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Convicted of second degree murder
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A. Philip Randolph
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Founded the Brotherhood of sleeping car porters in 1925
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Brotherhood or sleeping car porters
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Founded by A Philip Randolph in 1925
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Pan-africanism
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Aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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Native Jamaican that supported black nationalism
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Black nationalism
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Movement aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
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Universal negro improvement association
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Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914
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Immigration act of 1924
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Reduced this quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population figures for each nationality
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Bursum bill
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Designed to legalize non-Indian claims to pueblo land
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