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Fats Waller
Fats Waller was a jazz singer and professional piano player, he wrote ain't Misbehavin' and honey suckle rose. He was very famous in the black commanite for his jazz -
Father of Naval Aviation
Between 1908 and 1910 Glenn Curtiss helped build a number of air craft and set several early aviation records. It made everything more faster and easier to transport created the hydraero plane and sea plane marked the birth of the U.S navy aviation arm air corps -
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Transition to Modern America
-World War 1 was July 28,1914 to Nov 11,1918
-Stock Market Crash was October 29,1929
-The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied prohibition, indulged many traditional moral standards. This time period is market by optimism, celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influnces and a loss of American culture -
The 19th Amendment
-The 19th Amendment to the U.S constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote is passed by congress and sent and sent to the states for the 19th amendment played a pivotal role in prompting rights for women ushering in a new voting with a political agenda women also experienced economic problems allowing more women to enroll in higher education and enter professional occapafions -
Duke Ellington
-Duke Ellington was an American composer pianist and band leader of a jazz orchestra which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years in 1974
-The song ''it don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) brought about the swing dance. The song and the era was all about having a good time white audience eventually embraced these brilliant artists despite the nightly segregated state of America -
Teapot Dome Scandal
-The haring administration, harding was elected in 1920. During the scandal president harding appointed the Ohio ganging who out to be dishonest the interior leased oil rich government lands at teapot dome working busoness friends to exchange bribes from each other
-The scandal uncounted just after harding's death in 1923 one of the worst scandals in U.S history additional scandals emerged n oxacr departments harding poor choices for cabinet positions left a stain, his reputation -
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National Origins
-National Origins Act of 1924 severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that discriminated against Imagrant from southern and eastern Europe and excluded Asians after ww1
-Modified the emergency quota Act 1921 from 3% to 2% in which for eight born parsons of each nationality that resided in the U.S was changed from 1910 to 1890
-After ww1 nations feelings against immigrants led congress to restrict imagrant from Europe for the 1st time -
Henry Ford Innovation
-Ford was producing 1.6 million cars the assembly line production was so efficient he was able to double wages over night while slashing prices a year at $30 per car, by 1925 one car was rolling off Ford's assembly line every ten sec
- Ford also increased the daily wage from $2.34 to $5 an hour for 8 hrs setting a standard for the industry
-Ford motor company became one of the 1st companies in America to adopt a five day work week -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean in 1927.His airplane is called the spirit of St Louis. He traveled from island, New York to Paris, Franc. Charles Lindbergh became a national hero, he also laid the foundation for the future development of trans continental -
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Nativism
Nativism believed white protestant America were up eriop to other people it led to new restrictions on immigrants the migration of Africa Americas increase racial tension after the war. The kv klvx klan were deed for decades they found new life in 1915. They were hostile to immig5ants, catholics,jews and African americans -
Original Pledge of Allegiance
-In 1923 the groups for ''my flag'' to be replaced by ''the flag'' of the U.S
-The organization felt that with immigrants coming to the country it was important for new comers to affirm their loyalty to the U.S
-in 1954 the words ''under god'' were added
-under god was added to our pledge in a response to the threat of communism because Communist don't believe in god -
Emergency Quota Act
-The Act legislation restricted new immigration of number of residents per year from thief country of orgin all ready living in the unfired states
-The Act limit the immigrant helped the economy, authors name for the Act is the Emergency immigrant Act -
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Red Scare
Red scare took hold in the U.S Americas became xenophobic is the irrational fear of foreigner congress passed Emergency Quota Act closing thr door to southern and cast European immigrants palmer Raid the raids were when the FBI would go into houses and businesses of people for anything associated with communism many immigrants were deported without department of justice had uncovered plots against the lives of over 20 federal state officials as part of planned may day