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21 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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The transition from warfare to peacetime production levels, caused social and economic strain
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Seattle general strike
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Began on February 6 at 10:00 am, some 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
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Boston police strike
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Failed police strike that led to public disorder and the firing of all striking officers
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United Mine Workers Strike
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Strike for pay increase and better working hours that further weakened public support for unions
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John L. Lewis
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The newly elected president of the UMB
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Red Scare
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Period of anticommunist hysteria; swept the united states after WWI
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A Mitchell Palmer
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Bomber, an italian anarchist, died in the plast
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Palmer Raids
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Began in November
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Nicola Sacco
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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 leaders nominated
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Andrew Mellon
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Secertary of Treasury
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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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Law pushed tariff rates on manufacturing
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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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Which suported union-free open shops
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the US womens Bureau
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Teatop Dome scandal
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The notorious espisode of corruption
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Albert Fall
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Secertary of interior
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Calvin Coolidge
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Was sworn into presidency as a republican
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