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