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McDougal Littell - The Americans - Chp 12 Vocabulary
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History
11th Grade
01/06/2010

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Communism
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Economic/social system that advocated a single political party and state owned property
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A Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney general, arrested radicals
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Anarchists
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People who opposed all forms of govt
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Sacco/Vanzetti
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Italian victims of Red Scare
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Calvin Coolidge
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Governor of Massachusetts, saved Boston from police strike
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John L Lewis
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Mine Union leader, striked a lot
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Warren G Harding
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Republican president
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Pact that agreed to give up war
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Isolationist
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Policy to stay away from the rest of the world
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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Raised taxes on imports
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Quota System
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System that limited immigration
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Charles Hughes
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Secretary of state, then Chief Justice of the supreme court
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Ohio gang
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Friends of president Harding, in his cabinet
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Albert Fall
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Friend of Harding that caused him embarrassment
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Teapot Dome scandal
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Great government scandal related to oil mines
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Urban sprawl
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Cities expanding
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Installment plan
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Plan to pay for things over long periods of time
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