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32 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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60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike, which was extremely well organized
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Boston police strike
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further inflamed antilabor sentiments
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United Mine Workers Strike
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400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines, miners protest
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John L. Lewis
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newly elected president of the UMW
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Mergers
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the combining of two or more companies
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General A. Mitchell Palmer
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bomber, italian anarchist
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Palmer raids
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a series of raids to capture alleged radicals
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Nicola Sacco
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a shoemaker
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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peddled fish from a pushcart
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Warren G. Harding
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presidential candidate for the Republican Party
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Andrew Mellon
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believed that government should not interfere with the economy except to aid business
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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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Red Scare
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a period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
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American Plan
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supported the union free open shops
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Equal Rights Amendment
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consitutional amendment proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
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Mary Anderson
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director of the US Women's Bureau
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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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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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president after Harding died
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Alfred E. Smith
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moderate progressive
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William Joseph Simmons
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a preacher that was the founder of the KKK
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David Stephenson
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convicted of second-degree murder
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Mergers
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the combining of two or more companies
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A. Philip Randolph
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founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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improve working conditions for thousands of African Americans
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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 of Jamaice, supported the cause
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Black nationalism
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aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
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Universal Negro Improvement Association
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improve living for african Americans
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Immigration Act of 1924
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reduced the number of immigrants allowed in the country every year
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