Ch. 22 A Turbulent Decade

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Demobilization

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Transition from wartime to peacetime production levels.

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Seattle General Strike

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Where 35,000 shipyard workers walked off the job, demanding higher wages and shorter hours.

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Boston Police Strike

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Boston police officers formed a union to seek better pay and working conditions.

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United Mine Workers Strike

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Miners protested 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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President of United Mine Workers, organized United Mine Workers strike in November of 1919.

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Red Scare

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Period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920.

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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Attorney general who's house was damaged from a bomb.

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Palmer raids

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Series of raids to capture alleged radicals.

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Nicola Sacco

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Involved in Sacco and Vanzetti trial, she was a shoemaker.

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Italian immigrant convicted of murder and sentenced to death with Sacco.

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Warren G. Harding

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Nominated as Republican candidate for 1920 presidential election.

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Andrew Mellon

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Secretary of Treasury who believed that government should not interfere with the economy except to aid business.

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Charles Dawes

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Head of the Bureau of Budget, set out to eliminate debt by slashing spending.

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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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The combining of two or more companies.

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American Plan

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Supported union-free opens shops.

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Feminists

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Women's rights activists.

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Constitutional amendement proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul of the National Women's Party.

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Mary Anderson

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Director of the US Women's Bureau who feared that the ERA would make working conditions legislation unconstitutional.

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Teapot Dome scandal

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The most notorious episode of corruption during the Harding admin, it involved scandalous bribes.

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Albert Fall

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Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby to transfer control of navy oil reserves to his department.

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Calvin Coolidge

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Became president after Harding's death. He wanted to restore the rep of the presidency by firing all people involved in scandals. He was known as Silent Cal.

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Alfred E. Smith

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A moderate progressive who was nominated by Democrats in the 1928 Election.

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William Joseph Simmons

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Preacher who re-established the Ku Klux Klan in 1915.

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David Stephenson

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Convicted of 2nd-degree murder in one of the KKK scandals.

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A. Phillip Randolph

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Black socialist who found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925.

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

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Started to improve working conditions for African Americans who worked for the Pullman Company.

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Pan-Africanism

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The motivation for African Americans to form an independent nation.

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Marcus Garvey

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Supported the cause of Black Nationalism.

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Black nationalism

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Movement 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 African Americans' economic independence through the establishment of black-owned businesses, and also ...