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11 Cards in this Set
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demobilization
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transition from war time to peacetime production levels causing social and economic strain
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Seattle general strike
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60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in a strike that had no conflicts they feed the strikers
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Boston Police strike
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75% of the boston police went on strike for higher pay and better working conditions the boss just fiered them and hired new workers
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United Mine workers strike
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wanted more money to work on mines
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John L Lewis
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UMW president helped organize this strike
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Red scare
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Anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney General whose house was bombed and damaged
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Palmer raids
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raids to capture alleged radicals
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Nicola Sacco
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Italian immigrant shoemaker who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Italian immigrant who peddled fish from a pushcart was convicted of murder and sentenced to death
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Warren G Harding
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was the Republican Party candidate for the 1920 election
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