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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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seattle general strike
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60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
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boston police strike
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Boston police officers had recently formed a union to seek better pay and working conditins
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united mine workers strike
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minors were Protesting the continued enforcement of wartime contracts that kept workers pay fixed at 1917 rates despite increases in consumer prices
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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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a 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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a series of 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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presidential candidate
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Andrew mellon
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treasury of commerce
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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 an all-time high
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mergers
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combining two or more companies
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American plan
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Supported union-free open shops
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Equal rights amendment
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Constitutional amendment proposed to congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the 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 Edwin Denny to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department
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Calvin Coolidge
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Vice president
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Alfred r. Smith
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New York governor
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William Joseph Simmons
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Preacher of the kkk
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David stepson
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Convicted of second-degree murder
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A. Philip Randolph
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Founder of the brother hood of sleeping car porters
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Brotherhood of the sleeping car porters
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Improve working conditions for African American workers
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Pan-africanism
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Aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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Native of Jamaica
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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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Hoped to foster Americans economic independence and worked to establish an independent black homeland in Africa
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Immigration act of 1924
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Reduced the quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population figures for each nationality
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Feminists
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Women's rights activists
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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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