Us History Chapter 12

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What were some the causes of the Post War Depression ( 1918-1921)?

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*Government canceled contracts and price controls fot farmers
*Prices were doubled on consumer goods (shortage of goods)
*Returning soldiers ant their old jobs back-put women and minorities out of work*cost of re-tooling factories from war - time products (tanks, helmets) to peace time production
*Foreign trade is lost. England and France can produce own goods

Front 2

Red Scare
Fear of Communist takeover

Back 2

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
Lenin said it would be a world wide revolution

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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*Case shows Nativist feelings
*Charged w/ robbery and murder
*Italian immigrants (anarchists)
*Jury finds them guilty - death sentence
*Appeal process fails
*Led to worldwide protests

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Rise of the KKK

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*1920's membership increases 4.5 million members
*mode up of mainly WASP's
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
*strike fails

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Coal Strike

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*organized by John L. Lewis
*Lewis pretends to order miners back to work
*Pres. Wilson appoints arbitrator
*Miners get 27% pay increase, but nothing else

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Campaign to return to Normalcy

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People want to return to a time before WWI and progressice period

Front 7

Washington-Naval Conference

Back 7

After WWI several major powers got together and agreed ti disarm

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Washington-Naval Conference

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After WWI several major powers got together and agreed to disarm

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Causes for consumerism in 1920's

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1. use of psychology to get people to buy
2. gets people to buy things they don't need
3. Name bransd become very familiar

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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Attorney General

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J. Edgar Hoover

Back 11

worked for Palmer

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Palmer Raids

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geared towards immigrants- thought they were communist

Front 13

Buford

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a ship used by Palmer to ship anyone he thought was communist out of the US. Palmer shipped them all, regardless of nationality to Russia

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Nativists

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Just worry about your country-your country comes first

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Isolationism

Back 15

don't concern yourself with what's going on in Europe

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Anarchist

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person who doesn't believe in any form of government

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John L. Lewis

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organized the coal strike

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

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1st Black Union

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Charles Evans Hughes

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appointed Secretary of State - later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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Herbert Hoover

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appointed Secretary of Commerce by Hoover

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Ohio Gang

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Harding's poker playing buddies from Ohio who were part ogf Harding's cabinet

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Andrew Mellon

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*one of the countrie's richest men
*Harding made him Secretary of the Treasury
*He cut taxes -reduced the National debt

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Albert Fall

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Harding's Secretary of the Interior

Was 1st American to be convicted of a felony while holding a Cabinet post

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5 Power Pact

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Limited the size of navy

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Harding's Secretary of State, Albert Fall, allowed private oil companies to drill for oil on government property

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Harding's Secretary of State, Albert Fall, allowed private oil companies to drill for oil on government property. He was given more than $400,000 by the oil companies.