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Paige Davenport Mrs. Panayev US History II Outline I. Chapter 20-Section 1: A. Americans Struggle With Postwar Issues 1.Great Migration-relocation 6 million African Americans, going to from South to the Mid Northeast, looking for jobs and opportunities and more experience. Hard to find work due to lacking of skills. Push factors were escaping injustice and racism. 2.Palmer Raids- Palmer sent government agents to hunt down suspected socialists, communists, and anarchists, and those who opposed any and all forms of government 3.Red Scare- period of fear that anarchists, socialists and communists were conspiring to start a revolution in the United States of America. The First Red Scare was sparked by great suspicion, then spread strikes and a sequence of …show more content…

Harding- Sexual scandal, had an affair, and had a child.his reputation was destroyed following his death when Americans learned of madness within his administration. 4.Ohio Gang- The cabinet, included political supporters and friends who supported President Warren Harding. 5.Teapot Dome Scandal-in the Harding administration, Secretary of the Navy ,Edwin Denby persuaded the president to transfer responsibility. Senate investigation was opened by Thomas J. Walsh.It was found that Secretary Fall had received more than $400,000 in "loans" for assisting Sinclair and Doheny. Big Scandal of 1923. 6.Kellogg-Briand Pact- 64 nations agreed to not pick war as an option of solving disputes internationally, a treaty was signed. 7.Ford-McCumber Tariff- Regulations that raised the tax on imports to its highest ever. Almost 60 percent, designed to pro American businesses especially chemical and metal industries. 8.Nativism- Siding with the benefits of the native born people over the immigrants. 9.Emergency Quota Act (1921)- Set up a quota system. 10.Quota System-This system created the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from any one foreign

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