Transition to Modern America

  • Father Naval Aviation

    Between 1908 and 1910 Glenn H. Curtis's helped build a number of aircraft and set several early aviation records it made everything more faster and easier to transport created the hydroero plane and sea plane marked the birth of the U.S navy aviation Arm air crops
  • Social Darwin

    Social Darwin is a term used for different movements Charles Darwin was one of the main discovers of evolution leaders embraced the philosophy of social Darwin this philosophy adapted the ideas of British naturalist Charles Darwin would prosper weaker ones would fail because no one the right to inferred with progress which cause the rich people have better chance to survive then the poor people.
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    Red Scare

    Red Scare took hold in the U.S America became xenophobic is the irrational fear of foreigners congress passed emergency quota act closing the door to southern and eatstern European immigrants Palmer raids the raids were when the FBI would go into houses and business of people looking for anything associated with communism many immigrants were deported without trial Department of justice had uncovered plots against the lives of over 20 federal and state officials as part of planned may day.
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    The Roaring Twenties

    "This time period is marked by optimism, celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and loss of 'American culture'. "
  • 19th Amendment

    The cause of the 19th Amendment was because of women suffrage so that women would be able to vote the effect was that women can vote now ended women suffrage the amendment also failed to bring men and women to be equal in business and economics.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was engineer and early automobile manufacture Ford wanted to give workers enough buying power to purchase the cars and other goods they were mass production he introduced the assembly line in 1914 increasing product by moving cars along convey belt while workers completed their assigned task.
  • Emergency Quota Act

    The act legislation restricted new imagination of 3% of the number of residents per year from their country or origin all ready living the United States.The act limited immigrant helped the economy out Another name for the act is the Emergency immigrant act
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    NATIVISM in the 20s and 30s

    Nativism is the policy of protecting the interest of native born or established immigrants based on there national origin or their ethnic background immigration from Europe came to U.S Hitler WW1 they became a target group Ku Klux Klan was the most popular radical Nativist group
  • Fats Waller

    A musical by Thomas "Fats" Waller called "Ain't Misbehaving" that later received a Tony award as best Broadway Musical Waller despite to this strong was answers quips regarding his reputation for over including in wine woman and song
  • The Pledge Of Allegiance

    In 1923 The pronoun "My" was dropped from the pledge of allegiance and the works "The Flag of the of the United States Of America" were added In 1954 The pledge of allegiance underwent yet another change in 1954 responding the threat of soviet communism again more national fear president Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the words "under gods" to the pledge
  • Harlem Renaissance Artist Duke Ellington

    Duke Ellington was an American composer pianist and band leader of 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 swing) brought about the jwing dance the song and the era was all about having a good time white audience eventually embrace these brilliant artist despite the highly segregated state of america.
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    National Origins Formula

    A law that severely restricted
    immigrants by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants From Southern and Eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians Revised immigrants and nationality act continues (N.O.F) with proportional quotas but remove racial restriction.
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Became the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean in 1927 his airplane is called The spirit St Louis. He traveled from Island, New York to Paris, France Charles Lindbergh became a national hero he also land the foundation for the future development of transcontinental ariation