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Demobilization
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The transition from wartime to peacetime production levels, caused social and economic strain.
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Seattle General Strike
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It was the fist major strike of 1919 it occurred when some 35,000 shipyard workers in Seattle walked off the job. They demanded higher wages and shorter hours. Some 110 unions joined the workers.
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Boston Police Strike
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It further inflamed antilabor sentiments the Boston police had recently formed an union to seek better pay and working conditions.
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United Mine Workers Strike
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Miners were protesting the continued enforcement of wartime contracts that kept workers' pay fixed at 1917 rates despite increases in consumer prices. Some members demanded at 50% pay increase, a five-day workweek, and a six-hour workday.
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John L. Lewis
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He was the newly elected leader of the UMW during the strike.
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The red scare
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It was a period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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An attorney general who was killed in a bombing on his house.
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Palmer Raids
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They were raids that were meant to capture alleged radicals.
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Nicola Sacco
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A shoemaker that was also an anarchist that was convicted of murder and that was sentenced to death.
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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He peddled fish from a push cart and was also an anarchist that was convicted of murder and that was sentenced to death.
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Warren G. Harding
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A senator who was put up as the Republican candidate in the 1920 election.
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Andrew Mellon
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Secratary of the treasury who believed that government should not interfere with the economy except to aid business.
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Charles Dawes
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He set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending.
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
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It 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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It supported union-free open shops.
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Feminists
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Women's rights activists.
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Equla Rights Amendment
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A constitutional amendment proposed to congress that stated men and women shall have equal rights throughout the us and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the us womens bureau she was one of the opponents of the era who feared that the the amendment would make such legislation unconstitutional.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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The most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding administration.
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Albert Fall
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Secretary of the Interior who had 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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He was Harding's Vice Pres and after Harding's death he was sworn in as president.
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Alfred E. Smith
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A moderate progressive who was up for election in 1928.
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William Joseph Simmons
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A preacher who lead a branch of the KKK.
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David Stephenson
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He was also a leader of the KKK who was convicted of second-degree murder.
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A Philip Randolph
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He was a black socialist who lead the Brotherhood of the Sleeping car porters.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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It was a union meant to improve working conditions for thousands of AA who worked for the Pullman company.
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Pan-Africanism
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a movement aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide.
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Marcus Garvey
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A native Jamaican who supported the cause of black nationalism.
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Black Nationalism
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This 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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Its two mail goals to foster economic independence through the establishment fo
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