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32 Cards in this Set

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demobilization
transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
Seattle general strike
60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike, which was extremely well organized
Boston police strike
further inflamed antilabor sentiments
United Mine Workers Strike
400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines, miners protest
John L. Lewis
newly elected president of the UMW
Mergers
the combining of two or more companies
General A. Mitchell Palmer
bomber, italian anarchist
Palmer raids
a series of raids to capture alleged radicals
Nicola Sacco
a shoemaker
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
peddled fish from a pushcart
Warren G. Harding
presidential candidate for the Republican Party
Andrew Mellon
believed that government should not interfere with the economy except to aid business
Charles Dawes
set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all-time high
Red Scare
a period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
American Plan
supported the union free open shops
Equal Rights Amendment
consitutional amendment proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
Mary Anderson
director of the US Women's Bureau
Teapot Dome scandal
the most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding administration
Albert Fall
persuaded Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
Calvin Coolidge
president after Harding died
Alfred E. Smith
moderate progressive
William Joseph Simmons
a preacher that was the founder of the KKK
David Stephenson
convicted of second-degree murder
Mergers
the combining of two or more companies
A. Philip Randolph
founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
improve working conditions for thousands of African Americans
Pan-Africanism
aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide
Marcus Garvey
native of Jamaice, supported the cause
Black nationalism
aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
Universal Negro Improvement Association
improve living for african Americans
Immigration Act of 1924
reduced the number of immigrants allowed in the country every year