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32 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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Transition from watime to peacetime production leave
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Settle General strike
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Workers left their jobs to participate in strike
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Boston police strike
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Inflamed antilabor sentiments
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United mine workers strike
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400,000 coal miners walked out of 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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Period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
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A. Mitchell palmer
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An italian anarchist
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Palmer raids
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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 nominate for presidential candidate
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of the treasury
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Charles Dawes
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head of the bureau of the budget
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Fordney mcCumber tariff act
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Pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to all- time high
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Mergers
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The combinding 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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Working conditions became a divisive issue among womens rights activist
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Equal right amendment
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Amendment proposed to congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
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Mary anderson
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Director of U.S. women's bureau
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Teapot Dome scandal
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Most notorious episode of corruption during the harding administration
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Albert fall
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Persuaded secretary of the Navy to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
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Calvin coolidge
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Sworn into presidency after Harding's death
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Alfred E. Smith
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New york Governor elected by democrats
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William Joseph Simmons
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Established the new klan
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Brotherhood of sleeping car porters
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Improve working conditions for thousands of african americans
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A. Philip Randolph
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Founded Brotherhood of sleeping car porters
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Pan-Africanism
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Amied to unite people of African desent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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Native of jamaca
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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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Members hoped to foster African american economic independence
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Reduced the quota by 2 percent
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Bursum bill
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Legalize non-indian claims to Pueblo land
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