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32 Cards in this Set

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Demobilization
The transition from wartime to peacetime production levels; caused social and economic strain
Seattle general strike
Began on Febrary 6; some 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate
Boston police strike
In September 1919; further inflamed antilabor sentiments
United Mine Workers strike
Some 400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines
John J. Lewis
The United Mine Workers strike was organized by him; ; the new elected president of the UMW
Red Scarce
A period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
A. Mitchell Palmer
A bomb damaged this Attorney General's house
The Palmer raids
Began in November 1919; a series of raids to capture alleged radicals
Nicola Sacco
A shoemaker
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Peddled fish from a pushcart
Warren G. Harding
Republican Party leaders nominated him for the election of 1920
Andrew Mellon
Secretary of Treasury
Charles Dawes
Head of the Bureau of the Budget; set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
Federal law that pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all-time high and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods
Mergers
The combining of two or more companies to achieve greater efficiency and higher profits
American Plan
Policy promoted by business leaders during the 1920s that called for open shops
Feminists
Women's rights activists
Equal Rights Amendment
A constitutional amendment proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul of the National Women's Party
Mary Anderson
Director of the U.S. Women's Bureau
Teapot Dome scandal
The most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding administration
Albert Fall
Secretary of the Interior that persuaded the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the control of naval oil reserves to his department
Calvin Coolidge
Vice President who was sworn in as president after Harding's death
Alfred E. Smith
A moderate progressive who was nominated in 1928 as the democratic candidate
William Joseph Simmons
A preacher who established the KKK in 1915
A. Philip Randolph
Black socialist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The union to improve working conditions for thousands of African Americans
Pan-Africanism
Aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide
Marcus Garvey
A native of Jamaica who supported the cause of black nationalism
Black nationalism
Aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Gravey in 1914
Immigration Act of 1924
Reduced the quota to 2% of the 1890 population figures for each nationality
Bursum Bill
Designed to legalize non-Indian claims to Pueblo land