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32 Cards in this Set

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Demobilization
Transition from wartime to peacetime production and employment levels
Seattle general strike
Began on february 6 at 10:00 a.m some 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
Boston police strike
Further inflamed antilabor sentiments
United Mine Workers strike
400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines. They were protesting the continued enforcement of wartime contracts that kept workers pay at 1917 rates despite increases in consumer prices
John l. Lewis
Was the united mine workers strike leader
Red Scare
Period of anticommunist hysteria
General A. Mitchell Palmer
A bomb damage his house
Palmer raids
Began in November 1919 raids ordered by u.s attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer on suspected radical organizations
Nicola Sacco
Was a shoemaker
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Peddled fish from a pushcart
Warren G. Harding
Was the republican candidate of the election of 1920
Andrew Mellon
Was the secretary of the treasury
Charles Dawes
Set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending
Fordney Mccumber tariff act
The law pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all time high
Mergers
The combining of two or more companies
American plan
Supported union free open shops
Feminists
Were women's rights activists
Equal rights Amendment
This amendment stated that men and women shall have equal rights throughout the united states and every place subject to its jurisdiction
Mary anderson
Was the director of the U.S Women's Bureau
Teapot Dome Scandal
The most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding administration became news in 1924
Albert Fall
Had persuaded Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
Calvin coolidge
After the president harding death he was the new president
Alfred E. Smith
Was the democratic nominee for the election of 1928
William Joseph Simmons
Was the new klan leader in 1915
A. Philip Randolph
Was the leader of the brotherhood of sleeping Car Porters
Brotherhood of sleeping Car
Was union that helped get working conditions improved
Pan Africanism
Aimed to unite people of african descent worldwide
Marcus Garvey
A native of Jamaica supported the cause of black nationalism
Black nationalism
Was a movement aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Was founded by Marcus Garvey
Immigration Act of 1924
Reduced this quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population figures for each nationality
Bursum bill
Was designed to legalized non indian claims to pueblo land