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Langston Hughes 'The Negro Speaks Of Rivers'
-It was Harlem Renaissance Artists, he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots and the way they provide meaning in life
-It influenced the value of the African race during the renaissance Gra.
-The crisis is the official magazine (NAACP) National Association of the Advancement of Colored People -
Social Darwinism
-Haves were rich people, or people that had power
-If you were poor or not educated then it means that they don't deserve to have money or power
-Concept behind Social Darwinism was racism, money and power
-What social classes due to each other was a pamphlet by William Graham summers about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Stock Market Crash
This time period is marketing by optimism, celebration,experimentation and social change but also fear of external influences and a loss of 'American Culture' -
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Red Scare
Xenophobia-Irrational fear of foreigners
Causes-The US. was scared of the Communist Party that was forming in the US. when a wave of strikes also hit the US.in 1919
-The Palmer Raids were the direct response to the supposed attempted bombing which led to the braking into peoples houses violating their rights headed by Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer
-Sacco And Vanzetti were both Italians accused for supposibly being Communist and were sentenced to death for robbery -
19th Amendment
-At the time US. was founded,its female citizens did not share all the same rights as men
-This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920
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Henry Ford
-When manufactures first adopted their assembly line to their productions process, they often achieve dramatic gains in productivity
-Ford was producing 1.6 million cars a year at a price of less then $300 per car
-The growth in automobile ownership, from 8 to 24 million, greatly affected all aspects of American life
-Ford payed his workers $5 an hour so they could afford the model t they built -
U.N.I.A.E
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their Nobel race and to respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of a man and the fatherhood of God
-North and frustrations of struggling to cope with Urban life set the scene for Garvey back to Africa movement
-He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of the United States
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement 'Back-To-Africa' -
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Nativism in the 1920s & 1930s
-A dislike of foreigners-The red scare which had anarchist bombing The Sacco & Vanzetti case
-Migration of African Americans from south to northern cities increased racial tensions with KKK
-During the Red scare anarchist targeted judges , polititions , law enforcement officals, 2foreigners sentenced to death for robberies
KKK trageted African Americans doing lynchings and foreigners using the Emergancy quota act to scare others -
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National Origins Formula
-It established how many immigrants could enter the US.restricted by origin discriminated people outside Western Europe
-The gouh't only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
-The Asian exclusion act was modified which barred Asian's completely OUT! -
Emergency Quota Act
Causes: # of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,00-805,000 people after WW1
Terms-established max # of people who could enter the United States, 'Cut European Immigration'
How its positive:'KKK' strongly supported the EQA and National Origins Formula to reduce the # of formula coming to the US. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1929s involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.U and selling military land
-events led decades before gov. And US. Navy officials, new global presence
-Albert B. Fall served secretary of the interior in president Warren G. Hardings cabinet
-Scandal left a last stain on president reputation -
National Origins Act
Purpose-Established of a quota system limited immigration from southern and easturn Europe also established a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter the US. All Asians were excluded from immigration
-Emergancy quota that limited immigration from any country to 3% this act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 persons between 1920-1922 -
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Harlem Renaissance
Furing WW1 African Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was tolerant in American soldiers as deeply entrenched
-Two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement know as the " Great Migration " about two million African American out of the south to the promised land of the Northeast and midweast
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Charles Lindbergh
Nicknamed Slim, Luck Lindy and the Lone Eagle, was an american aviator,author,inventor and social activist
-The propose plane had been named the spirit of st.Louis and the pilot was to be Charles A. Lindbergh -
Fats Waller
-Its Jazz music
-it created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf/Waller/Brook off Broadway musical comedy and radio show
-Ain't misbehaving recording of 1929 were hits in the ASCAP ranking for the year
-His radio show was in everybody's living room black,white he used his radio show to influence the black and white -
Father Of Aviation
Glenn H. Curtis designed a sea plane that could take off land and water
-3 yrs later he flew his 'Hydroplane' in San Diego Bay landing on a Naval ship,this caused US. Navy to bay its first aircraft
-Curtis developed a larger 'Flying Boat'
-Then he helped US. Navy create aircraft carriers -
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Transitional Immigration
WW1 immigration was reduced to a trickle by the conflict in Europe nativistss feelings against immigrants led congress to restrict immigration from Europe for the 1st time
-Immigrants were over flooding the urban areas
The economy was drawn down a little due to little jobs available -
Pledge Of Allegaince
what was changed ?
-In 1954 'under God' was added to the pledge ,in a response to the threat communism
why it was changed ?
-Congress after a campaign by the knights of Columbus ,the pledge was now both patriotic oath and a public prayer
-The 'United States Of America' was added into the pledge
-The change was because they wanted to make sure they were pledging to their country and not anyone else's