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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 |
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Red Scare
Fear of Communist takeover |
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
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Washington-Naval Conference
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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
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worked for Palmer
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Palmer Raids
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geared towards immigrants- thought they were communist
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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
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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.
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