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Calvin Coolidge called them out during the Boston Police Strike.
What is the National Guard?
This legislation passed during WWI made it a crime to convey information intended to interfere with the war effort.
What is the Espionage Act?
This economic warning sign existed during the period of "superficial prosperity" in the 1920s.
What was reliance on credit and installment plans?
The automobile industry contributed to this in American society in the 1920s.
What is urban sprawl as cities expanded?
This was a propaganda tactic to turn public opinion against striking workers.
What was labeling the strikers as communists?
This was a major reason for labor strikes after WWI.
What is workers had not received a wage increase in years.
This was the purpose of the Committee on Public Information during WWI.
What was to popularize the war through propaganda?
These economic and social conditions contributed to the rise of fear in America after WWI.
Union membership declined in the 1920s in part because of:
What is immigrants were willing to work in poor conditions?
This was the outcome for many individuals during the Palmer Raids.
WWI affected women's employment in the US in this way.
What is they began to move to jobs previously held exclusively by men?
This federal agency encouraged companies to use mass production techniques to increase efficiency.
What is the War Industries Board?
These ideologies became prevalent in America following WWI.
The Teapot Dome Scandal involved:
What was illegal leasing of oil fields to private companies?
This was how Louis F. Post responded to the Palmer Raids.
This major health crisis affected the US near the end of WWI.
What is the Spanish flu epidemic?
This campaign encouraged people to conserve food during WWI?
What is "the gospel of the clean plate"?
He was appointed by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer to help hunt down communists.
Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
This was Harding's main goal when he took office in 1921.
What was 'normalcy' and peace?
This organization was formed in response to the Palmer Raids.
What is the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)?
This was a major demographic shift that occurred for African Americans during WWI.
What was large-scale movement from southern to northern cities (called the Great Migration)?
These were primary methods of war finance during WWI.
What was taxes and selling Liberty and Victory bonds?
Mitchell Palmer was known for supporting these reforms before he started hunting communists.
What are child labor reform and women's suffrage?
This group was the most successful in their strike efforts.
What was the coal miners' union?
This is how the Palmer raids are generally viewed in historical context today.
What is an illegal abuse of power and a cautionary tale about ignoring constitutional rights?