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Chapter 21

The Turbulent Decade

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Demobilizationshift from wartime preparations to a peacetime economy
Red Scare1919-1920 Period of anti-Communist hysteria after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
Palmer Raids1919-20 Raids to capture alleged radicals; launched by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer during the Red Scare.
Sacco & Vazetti2 Itallian immigrants who were accused of committing murder during a payroll robbery at a factory outside Boston, they were convicted and sentenced to death. Many felt they were convicted only b/c they were immigrants.
Warren G. HardingRan for president against Woodrow Wilson, and won. He was a senator for Ohio..
Calvin CoolidgeVice President to Harding. Took office once Harding was killed. president in 1924-28
Herbert HooverRan for President in 1928. Republican. He was known for his integrity and humanitarian ideals.
Great Migration of the 1920'sg
Black NationalismPeriod of time when Blacks displayed their pride in themselves and what they did. It was part of the Harlem renassance.
Marcus GarveyNative of Jamaica, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He urged African Am
KKK of the 1920'sOriginated in Stone Mountain. During the Red Scare members soared, about 5 million members.
Immigration of the 1920's1/4 of the population had to do w/this.
Immigration Act of 1924Federal law reducing the immigration quota for each nationality to 2% of the 1890 figures.
BolshevikBranch of the Russian Communist party that seized power in 1917 following the overthrow of czar.
William G. HardingProbusiness, antilabor platform that promised tax revision, higher tariffs, limits on immigration, and some aid to farmers.


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