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32 Cards in this Set
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demobilization
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the Transi-military supplies suddenly dried up
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Seattle general strike
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600 workers left there jobs to partie
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Boston police strike
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formed a union to seek better pay and working conditions
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United mine Worker Strike
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400,000 workers walked out of mines
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Red Scare
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a response to the 1917 revolution in Russia
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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a bomb damaged his house; general
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Palmer raids
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raids ordered by A. Mitchell Palmer on suspected racial organization.
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Nicola Sacco
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a shoe maker
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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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He ran for a pro-business platform that promised tax recision, higher tariffs, limits on immigration, and some aid to farmers.
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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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he set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending.
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Fordney- McCumber Tariff Act
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This law pushed tariff rates on manufacture goods to an all time high
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John L. Lewis
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The newly elected president of the UMW
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mergers
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the combining of two or more companies, took place in the era
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American Plan
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supported union-free open shops
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feminists
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women's rights activists
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee women's rights by outlawing discrimination based on gender
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Mary Anderson
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directpr of the U.S. Women's Bureau, was one of the opponents of the ERA who heard that 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, became news in 1924
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Albert Fall
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Secretarty 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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Alfred E. Smith
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a moderate progressive
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William Joseph Simmons
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He was a preach who established the KKK
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David Stephenson
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he was convicted of second degree murder
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A. Philip Randolph
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The unions' failure to help African American workers led black socialist by ----
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Union founded by A. Philip Randolph in 1925 to help AA who worked for the Pullman Company
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Pan-Africanism
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Movement to unite people of African descent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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a native of Jamaica, supported the cause of black nationalism
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Black nationalism
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Movement to create a new political state for AA in Africa
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Universal Negro Improvement Association
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Assosiation founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 to foster AA economic independence and establish an independent black homeland in Africa
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Federal law reducing the annual immigration quota for each nationality to 2 % of the 1890 census figures, plus 100 Japanese immigrants
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Bursum Bill
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Bill proposed in 1922 to legalize non-Indian claims to Pueblo lands in the Southwest; failed to pass
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