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30 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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Transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
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Boston police strike
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Further inflamed anti labor sentiment
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United mine workers strike
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When 400,000 miners walked out of the Mines
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John L Lewis
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Newly elected president of the UMW
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Red scare
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A period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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An Italian anarchist bomber
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Palmer raids
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Series of dramatic raids to capture alleged radicals.
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Nicola Sacco
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A shoemaker
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Bartolemeo Vanzetti
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Peddled fisher from a pushcart
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Warren G Harding
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Presidential candidate with broad appeal
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Andrew Mellon
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Treasurer
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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 pushes tariff rates on manufactured goods to an alltime high
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Mergers
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Combining of two or more companies
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Equal rights amendment
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A constitutional amendment proposed to congress
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the us women's bureau
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Teapot some scandal
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Most notorious episode of corruption during Harding administration
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Albert fall
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Persuaded secretary of the navy Edwin derby
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Calvin Coolidge
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President who worked to restore the reputation of the presidency
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Alfred e smith
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Moderate progressive
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William Joseph Simmons
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Preached of Georgia.
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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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Found the brotherhood of sleeping car porters.
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Brother hold of sleeping car porters
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Worked to improve working conditions for African Americans.
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Pan Africanism
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Aimed to unite Poole of African American descent
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Marcus Garvey
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Native Jamaica
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Black nationalism
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The equal treatment of African Americans
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Universal megro improvement association.
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Hoped to foster African Americans economic independence.
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Immigration of 1924
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Reduced this quota to 2 percent
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Bursum bill
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Designed to legalize non Indian claims to pueblo appealed
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