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32 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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Transition from wartime to peacetime production and employment levels
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Seattle general strike
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Began on february 6 at 10:00 a.m some 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
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Boston police strike
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Further inflamed antilabor sentiments
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United Mine Workers strike
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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
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John l. Lewis
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Was the united mine workers strike leader
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Red Scare
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Period of anticommunist hysteria
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General A. Mitchell Palmer
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A bomb damage his house
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Palmer raids
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Began in November 1919 raids ordered by u.s attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer on suspected radical organizations
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Nicola Sacco
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Was 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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Was the republican candidate of the election of 1920
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Andrew Mellon
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Was the secretary of the 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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The law pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all time high
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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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Supported union free open shops
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Feminists
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Were women's rights activists
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Equal rights Amendment
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This amendment stated that men and women shall have equal rights throughout the united states and every place subject to its jurisdiction
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Mary anderson
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Was the 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 became news in 1924
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Albert Fall
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Had persuaded Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
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Calvin coolidge
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After the president harding death he was the new president
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Alfred E. Smith
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Was the democratic nominee for the election of 1928
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William Joseph Simmons
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Was the new klan leader in 1915
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A. Philip Randolph
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Was the leader of the brotherhood of sleeping Car Porters
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Brotherhood of sleeping Car
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Was union that helped get working conditions improved
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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 supported the cause of black nationalism
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Black nationalism
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Was a movement aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
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Universal Negro Improvement Association
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Was founded by Marcus Garvey
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Reduced this quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population figures for each nationality
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Bursum bill
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Was designed to legalized non indian claims to pueblo land
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