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What is demobilization

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The standing down of a nations armed forces from a combat-ready status

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What did WW1 lay the ground work for

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Economic expansion

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3
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What did tariffs do

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Created an economic boom in the us

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4
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What can from the economic boom

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Cars, refrigerators, microwave, radios

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What was a reason consumerism was pushed

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Higher wages and credit purchasing

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With prices being low…

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Standard of living rose

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Food was..

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Plentiful and cheap

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8
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People owned house…

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Through mortgages

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9
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Who was president

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Warren G. Harding

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10
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1920s president=

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Urged a return to normalcy

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11
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Who took over after Hardings death

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Calvin Coolidge

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12
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Businesses can run with no government interference

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Laissez-faire

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13
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Why did the Russians drop out of the war

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A revolution

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14
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Who took control of Russia

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Vladimir Lenin

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15
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What was Lenin’s group

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The Bolsheviks

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Who took over after Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

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What was the red scare

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The fear that communism would spread to America

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What did the media do with the news of communism

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They sensationalized the story

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19
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What was a big event that had to do with the red scare

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The Palmer raids

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20
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What were the Palmer raids

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Bombs went off in several cities

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21
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What did Mitchell Palmer do

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Tried to ideantify and root out the groups that posed a clear and present danger

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22
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What are the people called who want to overthrow the government

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Subversives

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23
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Who was targeted?

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Communist socialist anarchist

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24
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What happened on January 2, 1920

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Federal agents in 33 cities arrested thousands of radicals WITH NO EVIDENCE. they were charged with anarchy

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25
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What happened on may 1, 1920 ( an annual socialist holiday)

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Nothing lmao

26
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti

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Two Italian immigrants arrested for murder (with like no evidence)

27
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Nativism

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A movement favoring native born Americans over immigrants

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Patriotism

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Many Americans believe that foreigners could never be fully loyal to the Us

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Religion

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Nativist who were Protestants did not trust Catholics, orthodox Christians, or Jews

30
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Urban conditions

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Americans blamed problems on immigrants

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Red scare

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Immigrants were believed to carry communist ideas with them

32
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Women’s rights

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19th amendment

33
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Women’s suffrage is…

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Wanting the right to vote

34
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What was a well known conference for women’s rights

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Seneca falls convention in new youk

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Why weren’t women wanted to vote

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It would make them too masculine, politics would dristract them, they were easily manipulated

36
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Who was Susan B. Anthony

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Led a group to Rochester New York so women could vote. She got arrested.

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Susan B. Anthony and other formed what…

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National Americans Women Suffrage (NAWSA)

38
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Who took over the NAWSA committee that worked on congressional passage of the federal suffrage amendment

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Alice Paul/ Lucy burns

39
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What did they change it too?

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Congressional union (cu)

40
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What happened august 1920

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The 19tg amendment was passed

41
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Who revitalized the Ku klux klan

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William j. Simmons

42
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How many member were in the kkk from 1922-1924

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100,000-4 mil

43
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What was the new focus of the kkk

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Vowed to defend their own white-Protestant culture against any group

44
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What were most crimes against in early 1920

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African Americans, Catholics, Jews, immigrants

45
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Where was the biggest klan

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Indiana

46
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Quota-

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Numerical limit imposed on immigrants representing certain ethnic groups or nations

47
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National origins acts-

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Reduced the amount of immigrants allowed in the previous quota

48
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What was the movement that a lot of African Americans left the south to the north

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The great migration

49
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Why did they want to leave

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Racism, employment, boll weevil, Jim Crow laws, war industries, immigration act, great Mississippi flood

50
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Legal racial segregation in the south

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Jim Crow laws

51
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What legalized the Jim Crow laws

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Plessy v. Ferguson

52
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War industries

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Created job openings for blacks

53
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Immigration act of 1924

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Put a halt to the flow of European immigrants to the emerging industrial centers of the northeast and Midwest

54
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The great Mississippi flood

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1927, displaced a lot of farmers and darn workers

55
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Harlem renaissance

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Harlem African American population grew from 50,000 in 1914 to 200000 in 1930

56
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Another word for Harlem renaissance

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Literary awakening

57
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Who was James Weldon Johnson

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He emerged as a leading writer of the Harlem group

58
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What is NAACP

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National association for the advancement of colored people

59
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Naacp was formed by who

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1909 by Moore field stores, Mary white ovington, and W.E.B. du bois

60
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Jazz age is also referred to what

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The swing era

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