Transition To Modern America

By kerra41
  • Father Naval Aviation

    Between 1908 and 1910 Glenn H. Curtis's helped build a number of aircrafts 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 interred with progresswhich cause the rich people to have a better chance to survive then the poor people.
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    The Roaring 20'S

    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.
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    National Origins Formula

    A law that severely restricted imm. by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminating against imm. and nationally act continues N.O.F with proportional quotas but removes racial restriction.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was engineer and early automobile manufacture ford wanted to give workers enough buying power to purchase and 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 there assigned task.
  • Emergency Quota Act

    The Act legislation restricted new immigration of 3% of the number of residences per year from their country or origin all ready living the united states. The act limited immigration helped the economy out another name for the act is the emergency immigrant act.
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    Nativism

    Is the policy of protecting the interest of native born or established imm. The belief in nativism was a prejudicial attitude towards imm. based on their national origin, Their ethnic background imm. from Europe came to US after WW1 They became targeted group of people KU Klux was the most popular radical nativist group.
  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929. the war latest until November 11, 1918.
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies, bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt was the president at the time. Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office secret leasing of federal oil reserves.
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    Red Scare

    Took place in the US america became xenophobic is the irrational fear of foreign passed Emergency Quota Act closing the door to southern and eastern European imm. Palmer Raids the raids were when the FBI would go into houses and business of people looking for anything associated with communism many imm. were deported without trial.