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| a large communist scare I the U.S. also fear a worldwide revolution that started in Russia. |
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| 1919, 4 million workers on 4000 strikes. Striking for higher wages, shorter hours, and more control at work. Strikes in shipping and U.S steel. U.S steel 340,000 workers strike. Strikes were seen as un-American and communists. |
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| Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer |
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| Palmer wants to stomp out radicals. He will create a new division of the justice dept. and put j. Edgar Hoover in charge to rid the “red menace”. November 1919 the palmer raids will take place. Arrests and deportations in many cities. This will be the greatest violation of civil liberties in the US so far. Palmer becomes a national hero. By 1920 the raids are over but the long term legacy will be the creation of organizations that are anti-communists and anti-radicals. |
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| A new Klan will develop in Georgia with William J. Simmons as the imperial Wizard. The new Klan will expand to anti-foreign, anti-Semitic, anti-catholic. Promote themselves as a patriotic cause. Klan will slowly grow. When vets return they can sign up for the American Legion and the Klan at the same time. 1920, 100,000 new members. |
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| 2 Italian anarchists are arrested in 1920 for murdering a shoe factory guard. Both are convicted and sentenced to death. Little to no evidence to convict them of the crime. Most felt they were punished because they were Immigrants and radicals. In 1927 they both die in the electric chair. In 1977 The Massachusetts governor will exonerate them. |
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| The 1920s will see industrial expansion and widespread prosperity. Production will double and the gross national product will grow up 40%. Wealth will however spread unequally. |
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| The rising standard of living |
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| New homes will be built, telephones will double, cigarette lighters, PyrexS glass, bathroom all in one room with enamel fixtures. The 20s will also see more leisure time as work will be cut from 60 to 45 hours a week. Also more paid vacation. In 1916 4% have it by 1926 40% have it. Will also see better with more variety and fresher foods. Education will also increase. 1900 1-10 stay in high school. 1-33 stay in college 1930 6-10 stay in high school 1-7 stay in college. |
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| the thought that everything should be shared. nothing belongs to one certain person. |
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| A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform. |
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| The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. |
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| Founder of the second KKK movement. he founded it on thanksgiving night in 1915 |
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| A stock market or equity market is a public entity (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) for the trading of company stock (shares) and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. |
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| It is the day the stock market crashed for the first time. it dropped a lot and it signaled the beginning of the 12 year Great Depression |
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| The American Legion is a mutual-aid organization of veterans of the United States armed forces chartered by the United States Congress. It was founded to benefit those veterans who served during a wartime period as defined by Congress. The American Legion was founded in 1919 by veterans returning from Europe after World War I, and was later chartered under Title 36 of the United States Code. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and also has offices in Washington, D.C. The group has nearly 3 million members in over 14,000 Posts worldwide. |
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| The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s.[1] It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. |
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| The Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the AA) to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I. The strike began on September 22, 1919, and collapsed on January 8, 1920. |
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