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22 Cards in this Set
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NATIVISM |
favoring the interests of native-bornpeople over foreign-born people. |
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ISOLATIONISM |
opposition to political andeconomic entanglements with other countries. |
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COMMUNISM |
an economic and political systembased on one-party government and state ownership of property |
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BOLSHEVIKS
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-led by Vladimir Lenin, were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. -member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, seized control of the government in Russia and became the dominant political power. - October 1917 -Russia -Economic hardship, food shortages, and government corruption all contributed to disillusionment with Czar Nicholas II. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. |
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A.Mitchell Palmer |
-U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer tookaction to combat this “Red Scare.” -to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. -attorney general from 1919 to 1921 -he was born in Pennsylvania -He believed that a Communist revolution was imminent in the United States, and he needed an issue on which to campaign for the 1920 Democratic presidential nomination. |
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J.Edgar Hoover
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Special Assistant of A. Mitchell Palmer worked with him and led the raids held
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ANARCHIST |
a person who opposes all forms ofgovernment. |
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SACCO AND VANZETTI |
were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster
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KLU KLUX KLAN |
a secret organizationthat used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War |
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QUOTA SYSTEM |
a system that sets limits on how manyimmigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year. |
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American Federation League
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An alliance of trade andcraft unions, was formed in 1886. |
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John L. Lewis |
leader of United Mine Workersof America |
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Warren G. Harding |
was called one of the worst presidents |
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Charles Evans Hughes |
Secretary of State (He suggestedthat the five major naval powers—the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France,and Italy—scrap many of their battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers.) |
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FORDNEY-MCCUMBER TARIFF |
a setof regulations, enacted by Congress in 1922, that raised taxes onimports to record levels in order to protect American businessesagainst foreign competition. |
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OHIO GANG |
a group of close friends and political supporters whomPresident Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet |
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TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL |
Secretary of the Interior AlbertB. Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companiesin return for money and land |
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Albert B. Fall |
Secretary of the Interior, a close friend of various oil executives |
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Calvin Coolidge |
fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s, favored government policies that would keep taxes down and businessprofits up, and give businesses more available credit in order to expand. Their goalwas to keep government interference in business to a minimum and to allow private enterprise to flourish. |
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URBAN SPRAWL |
the unplanned and uncontrolled spreadingof cities into surrounding regions. |
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INSTALLMENT PLAN |
an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put downmuch money at the time of purchase. |
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Charles Lindbergh |
build flights along with Amelia Earhart to promote cargo and commercial airlines. |
