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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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Seattle general strike
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Large scale strike that opponents blamed on Bolsheviks and foreigners; weakened support for organized labor.
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Boston police strike
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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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Strike for pay increases and better working hours that further weakened public supporters for unions; led by John L. Lewis
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John l. Lewis
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UMW strike was leg by him
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Red scare
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Period of anticommunist hysteria; swept the United States after world war 1
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A Mitchell Palmer
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r, was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He directed the controversial Palmer Raids.
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Palmer raids
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Raids ordered by us attorneys gerneral on a Mitchell on suspected radical organizations.
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Nicolas Sacco
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were suspected anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Bartolommeo vanzetti
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were suspected anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Warren g. Harding
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was the 29th President of the United States ). A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher.
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Andrew Mellon
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Believed that government shouldn't interfere with the economy except to aid business.
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Charles Dawes
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Head or burea of the budget set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending
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Tariff act
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was an act, sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
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Mergers
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The combining of two or more companies, generally by offering the stockholders of one company securities in the acquiring company in exchange for the surrender of their stock.
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American plans
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1920s plan for eliminating closed shop unions.
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Feminists
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Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
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Equal rights amendments
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was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.
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Mary Anderson
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was a real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper.
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Teapot dome scandal
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was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1922–1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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Albert fall
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was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal.
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Calvin Coolidge
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was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
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Alfred e smith
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Moderate progressive
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William Joseph Simmons
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the founder of the second Ku Klux Klan
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David stephson
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Convicted of second degree murder
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Immigration act
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Limited immigration in the Us
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