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33 Cards in this Set

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demobilization
the transition from wartime to peacetime production levels, caused social and economic strain
seattle general strike
60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
boston police strike
Boston police officers had recently formed a union to seek better pay and working conditins
united mine workers strike
minors were Protesting the continued enforcement of wartime contracts that kept workers pay fixed at 1917 rates despite increases in consumer prices
john l. lewis
newly elected president of the UMW
red scare
a period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920
a. mitchell palmer
an Italian anarchist
palmer raids
a series of raids to capture alleged radicals
Nicola Sacco
a shoemaker
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
peddled fish from a pushcart
warren g. harding
presidential candidate
Andrew mellon
treasury of commerce
Charles Dawes
head of the bureau of the budget
fordney-mccumber tariff act
pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all-time high
mergers
combining two or more companies
American plan
Supported union-free open shops
Equal rights amendment
Constitutional amendment proposed to congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
Mary Anderson
Director of the u.s. women's bureau
Teapot dome scandal
Most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding administration
Albert fall
Persuaded secretary of the navy Edwin Denny to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
Calvin Coolidge
Vice president
Alfred r. Smith
New York governor
William Joseph Simmons
Preacher of the kkk
David stepson
Convicted of second-degree murder
A. Philip Randolph
Founder of the brother hood of sleeping car porters
Brotherhood of the sleeping car porters
Improve working conditions for African American workers
Pan-africanism
Aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide
Marcus Garvey
Native of Jamaica
Black nationalism
Aimed to create a new political state for African Americans in africa
Universal negro improvement association
Hoped to foster Americans economic independence and worked to establish an independent black homeland in Africa
Immigration act of 1924
Reduced the quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population figures for each nationality
Feminists
Women's rights activists
Bursum bill
Bill proposed in 1922 to legalize non Indian claims to pueblo lands in the southwest; failed to pass