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Chapter 22 Terms
AP US History terms for chapter 22 of The American Promise
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10th Grade
02/13/2011

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George Creel
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directed Committee on Public Information, muckraking journalist, cheerleader for war
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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center of Republican opposition to his archenemy Wilson, chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Calvin Coolidge
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MA governor who called National Guard after Boston policemen went on strike
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney General who led charge against communists
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Emma Goldman
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most notorious radical Russian alien, passionate support of labor strikes, women's rights, and birth control, ordered to be deported
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Warren Harding
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1920 Republican Presidential candidate, senator from Ohio, won by largest margin with slogan of "healing not heroics, normalcy over questionable remedies"
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American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
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in charge of training new army
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U-boats
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German submarines used to blockade Britain, basically started the war cause they killed civilians without warning, uncivilized
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Lusitania
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lot of civilians died from u-boat, admittedly it did have war supplies on it
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Germany promised Mexico Texas and other "lost territories" if they attacked the US
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Selective Services Act
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draft of all young men into the army
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War Industries Board
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created to stimulate and direct industrial production
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18th Amendment
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banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol
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19th Amendment
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women's right to vote
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Committee on Public Information
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propaganda control in the US
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Sedition Act
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gave the government sweeping powers to push dissenting or unpatriotic opinions
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Fourteen Points
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Wilson's ideas for how to deal with aftermath of the war, especially included not to blame Germany for war and saddle them with a whole lotta blame and money
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League of Nations
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one of Wilson's Fourteen Points, US ended up not being part because Senate was really restricting it and Wilson didn't want to compromise on that aspect
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Paris Peace Conference/ Versailles Treaty
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blamed Germany for war and saddled them with debts, split up European countries, League of Nations to prevent in future
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Strikes of 1919
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shipyard, policemen, steel - all against changes going back to way labor was before the war
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Red Scare
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against Communism, crazy accusations
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Great Migration
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blacks to the North for industrial jobs away from Jim Crow laws and lynching
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League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
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organization of Mexican Americans after war
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