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33 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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The transition from wartime to peacetime production levels caused social and economic strain
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Boston police strike
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September 1919 a strike
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Seattle general strike
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Began on February 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
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United mine workers strike
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400,000 coal miners walked out and went on strike
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John L. Lewis
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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 attorney general that was bombed
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Palmer raids
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His most dramatic action was a series of raids to capture alleged radicals
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Nicola Sacco
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Was a shoe maker
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Bartolommeo Vanzetti
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Peddled fish from a pushcart
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Warren G Harding
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Republican Party leaders nominated him
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Andrew Mellon
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Sec. of commerce
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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
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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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Working conditions also became advised says heat issue among women's rights activists
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Equal rights amendment
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Constitution amendment proposed to Congress
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Mary Anderson
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Director of US women's bureau
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Teapot Dome scandal
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The most Smintris's episode of corruption
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Albert fall
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Have persuaded Sec. of Navy Edwin
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Calvin Coolidge
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Vice president
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Alfred E Smith
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A moderate progressive
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William Joseph Simons
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Preacher of the Ku Klux Klan
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David Stevenson
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Convicted of second-degree murder
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A Philip Randolph
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Led Black Socialists
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Brotherhood of sleeping car porters
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Began in 1925 African-Americans who work for Pullman Company
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Pan Africanism
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Aim to unite people of African descent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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A native Jamaica
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Black nationalism
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Aim to create a new political state for African-Americans
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Universal Negro improvement Association
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Had to mingles its members hope to foster African-Americans, make independents through Eestyles minute black-owned business
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Immigration act of 1924
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Reduced his quotes to 2% of the 1890 population
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Bursum bill
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Was designed to legalize non-Indian claims
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