-
Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
-It was a 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 Era.
The crisis is the official magazine (NAACP) National Association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
Social Darwinism
-Haves were rich people or people that had power
-If you were poor or not educated then it meant 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 summer's about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
Period: to
Red Scare
Xenophobia irrational fear of foreigners
Causes- The U.S. was scared if the communist party that was forming the U.S. when a wave strikes also hit the United States in 1919
-The popular raids were the direct response to the supposed attendant bombings which led to the breaking into peoples houses violating their rights headed by Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer Sacco and Vanzettei were both Italians accused for being communist & were sentenced to death for robbery. -
U.N.I.A.E.
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect rights of all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
-North and frustrations of struggling to cope with Urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to Africa movement.
-He went to Jamaica and was kicked out of the United States.
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "Back-To-Africa" -
Henry Ford
-When manufacturers first adopted their assembly line to their production process, they often achieve dramatic gains in productivity.
-Ford was producing 1.6 million cars a year at a price of less than $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 they built. -
19th Amendment
-At the time U.S. founded it's female citizens did not share all the same rights as men
-This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920
-Unified Suffrage laws across the U.S. -
Period: to
Nativism in the 1920's & 30's
-A dislike of foreigners- The Red Scare which had anarchist bombings The Sacco & Vanzetti case
-Migration of African Americans from South to Northern cities increased racial tensions with KKK
-During red scare anarchist targeted judges, politicians, law enforcement officials, 2 foreigners sentenced to death for robberies
-KKK targeted African Americans doing lynchings and foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others -
Emergency Quota Act
Cause: # of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,000-805,000 people after WW1
-Terms: established max # of people who could enter the United States. "Cut European Immigration"
-How it's positive: Allows immigrants that are already living in the U.S. have a secure job.
-Groups like the "KKK" strongly supported the EQA and National Origins Formula to reduce the # of formula coming to the U.S. -
Period: to
National Origins Formula
-It established how many immigrants could enter the u.s. restricted by origin discriminated people outside of western Europe
-The govt only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
-The Asian exclusive act was modified which barred Asians completely out -
Period: to
Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920's involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.U and selling military land
-Events led decades before govt and U.S. Navy Officials, new global preference
-Albert B. Fall served secretary of the interior in president Warren G. Harding's cabinet
-Scandal left a last stain on President reputation -
National Origins Act
Purpose- Established of a quota system limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe also established a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter U.S. all Asians were excluded from immigration. (Chinese immigration act)
-Emergency quota that limited immigration from any country to 3% this act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 persons between 1920-1922 -
Period: to
Harlem Renaissance
-During 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 known as the "Great Migration" about two million African Americans out of the South to the promised land of the North East and Mid Wes
-The Harlem renaissance of New Negro movement occurred as a result of an increased in radical American intellectuals and Urbanization into Harlem -
Scopes Trial- Monkey Trial
-As an American legal case in 1925 in which a teacher from Tennessee violated the Butler Act, which taught about evolution.
-This made awful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
-William Jennings was a prosecutor, the attorney who depended scopes was convicted for teaching evolution, his $1.00 fine was late set aside.
-The town first made the fine to collect money due to the Great Depression -
Father on Naval Aviation
-Glenn H. Curtis designed a sea plane the could take off and land on water
-3 yrs. later he flew his "hydroplane" in San Diego Bay landing on a naval ship, this caused U.S. Navy to Bay its aircraft
-Curtis developed a larger "flying boat"
-Then he helped U.S. Navy create aircraft carriers -
Period: to
Transitional Immigration
-WW1 immigration was reduced to a trickle by the conflict in Europe. Nativist feelings against immigrants led congress to restrict immigration from Europe for the 1st ime
-Immigrants were over flooding the urban areas The economy was drawn due to a little due to little jobs available -
Pledge of Allegiance
-What was changed?
-In 1954 "under God" was added to the pledge in a response to threat of communism
Why it was changed?
-Congress after a campaign by the knights of Columbus The ledge 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