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| the transition from wartime to peacetime. The slowing of production levels. |
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| how were women treated after the war was over? |
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| they were forced to give up their jobs for men who were coming back from the war. |
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| the shipyard workers in Seattle demanded higher wages and shorter hours.60,000 workers walked off the job to join in the strike. |
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| a Boston police union formed to seek better pay and working conditions. The police commissioner refused to recognize them, and fired the 19 officers who'd been involved. |
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| United mine workers strike |
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| 40,000 mine workers walked off the job, protesting that their pay and then increased for three years. |
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| who was John L. Lewis and what was his importance? |
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| he was the president of the United mine workers, and was the one who organized their strike. |
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| who was John L. Lewis and what was his importance? |
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| he was the president of the United mine workers, and was the one who organized their strike. |
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| what is the red scare and why is it important? |
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| it was a period of anti-Communist hysteria during 1919 and 1920. People feared that the revolution in Russia would incite a similar situation in the United States. |
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| he was leader of the Socialist party who tried to run for president who planned to make the United States a socialist nation. |
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| what were the Palmer raids? |
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| an anti-Communist crusade launched by A. Mitchell Palmer that arrested thousands of radicals and 33 cities nationwide. |
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| who is Mitchell Palmer and why was he important? |
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| he launched the anti-Communist Palmer raids, after almost being killed by an Italian anarchist suicide bomber. |
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| describe in detail the Sacco and Vanzetti saga. |
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| Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants who were convicted of murder and sentenced to death they were arrested for killing a paymaster and a guard during a 1920 payroll robbery outside a shoe factory near Boston. After an intense interrogation they were sentenced to death. This ruling amplified the red scare. |
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| who is Warren G. Harding? Describe him in detail. |
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| he was the Republican candidate for the 1920 presidential election.they ran a pro-business platform that promised tax revision, higher tariffs, limited immigration, and aided farmers. His slogan was "return to normalcy."he won the election with 404 votes to Cox's 127. |
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| the secretary of treasury who wanted to lower taxes. They believe that government shouldn't interfere with the economy. |
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| head of the Bureau of the budget. They set out to eliminate national debt by slashing spending. |
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| Fordney-McCumber tariff act |
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| an act that is part of raids on manufactured goods to an all-time high, which increased national profits. |
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| the combining of two or more companies. There were more than 1000 marchers during this era. Businesses favored mergers because they were more efficient, and made higher profits. |
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| what is the American plan? |
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| an anti-union plan that supported union-free open shops. Union membership fell from 5 million to 3.6 million in three years because of it. |
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| women's rights activists. the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote, but didn't stop inequality. |
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| equal rights amendment(ERA) |
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| the amendment that said that men and women should have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. It eventually failed to win political support. Even some women didn't agree with this amendment. |
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| Director of the United States women's Bureau, who feared that the ERA would be bad because women wouldn't be able to care for their children as well. |
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| who could Warren G. Harding not trust? |
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| the Ohio gang-his friends who he gave good positions, but ended up not being able to be trusted. |
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| describe in depth the Teapot Dome scandal |
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| a well-known episode of corruption during the Harding administration. Secretary or of interior, Albert fall, persuaded the Sec. of the Navy, Edwin Denby, to transfer control of naval oil reserves to his department. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes and later jailed. |
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| he's the secretary or of interior, who was convicted of accepting bribes and then jailed. |
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| how did Calvin Coolidge become president? |
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| Harding died, and he was the vice president, so he took office. |
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| describe the election of 1924 in detail |
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| Calvin Coolidge easily won the election of 1924. He was a Republican, and the Democrat votes were split over issues such as prohibition. He won in a landslide with 15.7 million votes to Davis's 8.4 million. |
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| describe Coolidge's pro-business position |
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| he was even more pro-business than Harding. "The business of America is business," he declared. He made tax cuts for businesses with the revenue act of 1926. He also often had meetings with big business owners, and cut government spending. |
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| describe the election of 1928 in detail(5pts) |
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| Herbert Hoover was nominated for president. He said that he wanted to get rid of poverty, but ironically he was the reason the United States got into the Great Depression. The Republican candidate was Herbert Hoover, the Democratic candidate was Alfred E. Smith, and Hoover got 58% of the popular vote. |
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| he was nominated for presidency as a Democrat in 1928. And if people didn't vote for him because he was Catholic. People thought if he was selected, the pope would have more power in the United States government. |
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| why did African-Americans move northward? |
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| they were searching for economic opportunities, and a life free of discrimination. |
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| describes the events that happened at Lake Michigan |
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| a white man threw rocks at an African-American teen who was swimming. He drowned. When the police refused to arrest anyone, fights broke out between whites and African Americans on shore, and quickly spread to the rest of the city. The rioting when on for more than a week. By the time they said then returned, 38 people had been killed, and 537 had been injured. |
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| he was a preacher from Georgia who established the new KKK in 1915. |
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| he was the Indiana grand Dragon, who was convicted of second-degree murder. He symbolized the weakening of the KKK. |
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| describe the Klu Klux Klan and their impact on the 1920s |
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| the KKK terrorized Africans, Catholics, Jews, and suspected radicals. The red scare fueled the KKK, and also increased fear of radicalism and communism. |
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| describe the anti-lynching campaign |
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| Africans tried to get an anti-lynching campaign, which passed in the House, but lost in the Senate.W.E.B Du Bois rallied for support of this campaign by publishing stories in the crisis, but his efforts failed. |
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| he founded the brotherhood of sleeping car porters, and set out to end discrimination within unions. |
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| what is the brotherhood of sleeping car porters? |
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| the union created to improve working conditions for thousands of African Americans working for the Pullman Company. |
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| a movement to unite people of the African descent worldwide. |
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| the leader of the pan-Africanism movement, who was a Jamaican, who founded the UNIA, and supported black nationalism. |
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| what is black nationalism? |
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| a moment that aim to create a new political state in Africa for African Americans. |
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| what is the UNIA and what were their goals(2) |
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1. They hoped to foster African Americans economic independence through the establishment of black owned businesses.
2. They also worked to establish an independent black homeland in Africa. |
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| what happened to Marcus Garvey that ended his popularity? |
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| he helped create a black star group to help Africans. He needed money, so he asked the Africans to loan him money, so he could fund black nationalism. |
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| decrease the number of immigrants allowed to enter the US, from 3% to 2%. This didn't affect Mexicans, because Southern workers wanted cheap labor. |
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| describe the Mexican-American migration |
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| many Mexicans moved across the border to the United States for better quality of life, and because of that business owners wanted cheap labor. |
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| what was the American Indian lifelike in the 1920s? |
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| life was not very good for the American Indians. They lost a lot of land, and the Dawes act attempted to Americanize them. |
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| what is the burnsum bill? |
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| it was designed to legalize non-Indian claims to the Pueblo land. Eventually the Pueblo faught and defeated this bill. |
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