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33 Cards in this Set
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demobilization
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transition from waretime to peacetime production levels
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General strike
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began Febuary 6 at 10:00 a.m.
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Seattle
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jobs t participate in the strike
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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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some 40,000 coal miners walked out of the mines
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John L. Lewis
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the newly elected president of the UMW
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Red scare
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united states reached its hight
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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a bomber an Italian anarchist died in the blast
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Palmer raids
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began in November 1919
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Nicola Sacco
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was 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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Republican party leader
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Andrew Mellon
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secratary of commerce Herbert Hoover
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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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the law pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods
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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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supported union- free open shops
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feminists
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working condition also became a divisive issue among womens rights activists
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Divisions in the womens movement emerged in the debate
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Mary anderson
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director of the u.s. women Bureu was one of the opponets of the ERA
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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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had persuaded secratary of the Navy Edmin Denby to transfer control of naval oil reserves
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Calvin Coolage
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;restore the reputation of the presidentcy by firing many of the people involved in the scandals.
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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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New Ku Klux Klan establish in 1915 at stone Mountain, Georiga
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David Stephenson
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convicted of second- degree murder
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A. Philip Randolph
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Led African American workers
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Brotherhood of sleeping Car Porters
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Randolph started the union to improve working condition for thousands of African Americans
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Pan Africanism
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aimed to unite people of African decent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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a native jaimaca supported the cause
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Black Nationalism
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movement aimed to create new political state for African Americans in Africa
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Universal Negro Improvement Assosiation
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Unia had two main goals
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Immigration Act of 1924
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reduced this quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population figures for each nationallity
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