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33 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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Transition from wartime to peacetime productions and employment levels
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Seattle general srike
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(1919) large scale strike that opponents blamed on Bolsheviks and foreigners
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Boston police strike
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(1919) failed police strike that led to public disorder and the firing of all striking officers
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United mine workers strike
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(1919) strike for pay increases and better working hours than further weakened public support for unions
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John L. lewis
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Led the Unite Mine Workers strike
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Red Scare
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Period of anticommunist hysteria
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Launched an anticommunist crusade
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Palmer raids
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(1919-20) raids ordered by the US 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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Mergers
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The combining of two or more companies to achieve greater efficiency and higher profits
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Feminists
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Women's rights activists
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Warren G. Harding
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Elected for Republican party in 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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Turned the government's annual budget deficit into a surplus, which would help reduce the national debt
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
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(1922) 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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American plan
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Union plan during the civil war for a naval blockade
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Equal rights Amendment
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(ERA) proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee women's rights by outlawing discrimination by gender
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the US women's bureau
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Teapot Dome scandal
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Scandal during President Warren Harding's administration that involved Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall's leasing of oil reserves in return for proposal gifts and loans
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Albert Fall
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Secretary of the Interior that 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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Vice president who was sworn in as president after Harding's death
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Alfred E. Smith
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NY governor, nominated as moderate progressive
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Black nationalism
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Movement to create a new political state for African Americans in Africa
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William Joseph Simmons
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Preacher who established the KKK in 1915
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David Stephenson
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Indiana Grand Dragon (leader) that was convicted of second-degree murder
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A. Philip Rudolph
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Black socialist who found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Union founded by A. Philip Rudolph in 1925 to help African Americans who worked for the Pullman company
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Pan-Africanism
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Movement to unite people or African descent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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Native of Jamaica who supported the cause of black nationalism
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Universal Negro improvement association
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(UNIA) association founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 to foster African American economic independence and establish an independent black homeland in Africa
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Immigration act of 1924
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Federal law reducing the annual immigrant quota for each nationality to 2% of the 1890 census figures plus 100 Japanese immigrants
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Bursum Bill
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Bill proposed in 1922 to legalize non-Indian claims to Pueblo lands in the southwest--failed to pass
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