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32 Cards in this Set
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Demobilization
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The transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
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Seattle general strike
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Where some 60,000 workers left their jobs to participate in the strike
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Boston police strike
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Further inflamed antilabor sentiments. Boston police officers formed a union for better pay.
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United Mine Workers strike
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Miners were protesting the continued enforcement of wartime contracts
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John J. Lewis
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Organized the United Mine Workers strike, 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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Attorney General who has his house bombed by an Italian anarchist
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Palmer raids
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Palmer´s raids to capture alleged radicals
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Nicola Sacco
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Shoemaker anarchist
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Person who peddled fish for a pushcart and was an anarchist
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Warren G. Harding
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Republican party nominee in the 1920 election
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of Treasury for Harding
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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
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Mergers
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The combining of two or more companies
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American Plan
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Supported Union-free open shops
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Feminists
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Women rights activists
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Wanted to make it so women and men had the same rights
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Mary Anderson
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Director of the U.S. Women's Bureau, one of the opponents of the ERA.
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Teapot Dome scandal
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The 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 Denby to transfer control of naval oil reserve to his department
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Calvin Coolidge
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Vice President made President after Harding's death
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Alfred E. Smith
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New York Governor nominated by Democrats for the election of 1928.
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William Joseph Simmons
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A preacher who established the KKK in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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David Stephenson
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Convicted of third degree murder, Indiana's Grand Dragon or leader for the KKK
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A. Ralph Randolph
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Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Wanted to improve working conditions for African Americans
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Pan-Africanism
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Movement aimed to unite people of African descent worldwide
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Marcus Garvey
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A native of Jamaica who supported black nationalism
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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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Wanted to foster African American's economic independence and establish an independent black homeland in Africa
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Reduced the nationality quota to 2 percent of the 1890 population
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