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Social Darwinism
This philosophy adapted the ideas of the British naturalist Charels Darwin and applied them to human society. Social Darwinism said strontger people, businesses and nations would prosper, weaker ones would fail, no one had the right to interfere with the progress -
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Fats Waller
Jazz singer and professional piano player. he wrote "ain't misbehaving"and "honey sickle rose" he was very famous in the black community for jazz and radio shows -
Father Naval Aviation
Glenn H. Curtis helped build a number of aircraft and set several early aviation records. it made everything more faster and easier to transport created the hydroplane and seaplane marked the birth of the U.S.Navy Aviation Arm Air Corps -
Henry Ford Innovations
Ford had been trying to increase his factories productivity for years
the workers who built his Model W cars arranged the parts in a row on the floor, put the under construction auto on skids and dragged it down the line as they worked
Later the steaming process grew more sophisticated. The Ford Motor Company announced that it would pay eligible workers minimum wage at 5 dollars per day for ford workers it meant double
reduce work hours to 8-9
the most significant piece was the assembly line -
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Red Scare
xenophobia
-intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries
Causes of this fear
-Americans were terrified that a communist revolution could breakout in the U.S.A after WW1 and their jobs
Legal Actions
-Emergency Quota Act
-Deportation of illegal Aliens on May Day -
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The roaring 20's
marked by optimism, celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of "american culture" -
19th Amendment
to the constitution of the united states provides men and women with equal voting rights, the amendment also failed to bring about the equality of economic sexes that sponsors hoped for -
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National origins Formula
Act of 1924 had established immigration quotas that discriminated strongly against people from outside western Europe act modified the immigration act of 1924. The act set a quota of about 150,000 people annually. It discriminated against southern Europeans and banned asia completely. -
Emergency Quota Act
The act legislation restricted new immigration of 3% of origin act ready living the united states. the act limited immigrant helped the economy out. Another name for the act is the emergency immgrant act -
Modification of the original Pledge of Allegiance
-The word "my" was dropped and the words "the flag of the united states of America" was added b/c they felt like immigrants could be pledging to their Native land
-in 1950, responding to the threat of soviet communism President Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the words "under God" to the pledge -
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Nativism in the 20's and 30's
Nativism
-the policy of protecting the interest on native born of established inhabitants against those immigrants
-they created nativism because immigrants where willing to work for any wage which would make it harder for native born Americans to find -
Harlem Renaissance: Duke Ellington
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 -
Charles Lindbergh
became the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean in 1927. His plane was called "the spirit of st.Louis." He traveled from island, New York to Paris Charles Lindbergh became a national hero, he also laid the foundation for the future development of transcontinental aviation