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APUSH Chapter 22 Vocabulary
APUSH Chapter 22 Vocabulary
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10th Grade
02/15/2011

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George Creel
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head of the United States Committee on Public Information
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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first Senate Republican Leader, while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference
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Calvin Coolidge
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30th Persident of U.S following Harding's early death. Conservative and quiet man
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. Directed Palmer Raids
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Emma Goldman
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Anarchist that helped develop anarchist political philosophy
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Warren Harding
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Newspaper publisher and Ohio republican Senate member, later became 29th U.S President
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American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
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the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I
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u-boats
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German word for underwater military submarines during WW1
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Lusitania
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British boat sunk by German U-boat that killed many American soldiers
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Secret telegram from Germany to Mexico asking to become allies against America in exchange for land once war was won
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Selective Service Act
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Act passed by congress during WW1 that allowed men age 18 or above to be drafted for war
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War Industries Board
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government agency established during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies
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18th Amendment
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Banned alcohol which established Prohibition in the United States
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19th Amendment
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prohibits any U.S. citizen to be denied the right to vote based on gender
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Committee on Public Information
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Government agency created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I
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Sedition Act
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forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government
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Fourteen Points
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Speech given by Woodrow Wilson saying WW1 was being faught for moral reasons and postwar peace in Europe
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League of Nations
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intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference. Later became United Nations
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Paris Peace Conference/Versailles Treaty
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Treaty signed to end World War 1 and restore peace in Europe
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Strikes of 1919
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Series of labor union strikes against management that stopped a lot of efficency of large corporations
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Red Scare
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periods of Anti-Communism in the United States about about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism
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Great Migration
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movement of 2 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from 1910 to 1930
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League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
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organization created to combat the discrimination that Mexican Americans faced in the United States Southwest
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