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26 Cards in this Set
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demobilization
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the transition from wartime to peacetime production
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seatle general strike
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60,000 workers left work to go on strike
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boston police strike
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officers were fired making the force go on strike and there were huge mobs that broke into builings because of the lack of law
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united mine workers strike
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miners were protesting the continued enforcment of wartime contracts
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john l lewis
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newly elected president of the umw
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red scare
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period of anti communist hysteria
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a mitchel palmer
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an itialian bomber
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palmer raids
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series of raids to capture alleged radicials
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nicola sacco
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shoe maker charged with murder
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bartolomeo vanzetti
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peddled fish from a push cart was also charged with murder
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warren g. harding
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ran for president lacked woodrows intelligence
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andrew mellon
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he was part of the treasury
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charles dawes
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he set out to eliminate the debt
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fordney mcumber tarriff act
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the law pushed tariff taxes to an all time high
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mergers
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when two buisnesses come together as one
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american plan
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supported union free shops
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egual rights amendment
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made man and women equal
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teapot dome scandal
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most notorious episode of corruption
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albert fall
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secratary of the interior
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calvin coolidge
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was sworn president aafter hardings death
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alfred E. smith
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a moderate progressive
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william joseph simmons
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klan that carried out kidnappings beatings and lynchings
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david stephson
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convicted of second degree murder
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immigration act
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limmeted imigration into the united states
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universial negro improvement association
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fostered blacks economic independance
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black nationalism
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create new politicial state for blacks
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