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Langston Hughes
-It was a Harlem Renaissance artist.he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning in life
-It influenced the value of the african race during the renaissance act -
Social Darwinism
-Have 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 and they were a have not
-Concept behind social Darwinism was racism,money,and power -
Henry Ford
-Was an engineer early automobile manufacturer
-He introduced the assembly line in 1914,increasing production by moving cars along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned task -
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Harlem Renaissance
-The Great Migration led to the relocation of more than 6 millions African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North,Midwest and west from 1917-1970
-Mass Migration of African American from the south during WWW1 had help filled New York industrial needs
-The Jim Crow laws lead to a mass migration from the south to places like New York,& Chicago,because the African Americans wanted to get away from the Jim Crow laws and racism -
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Red Scare
causes-the U.S was scared of the communist party that was forming in the U.S when a wave a strikes also hit the U.S in 1919
-The Palmer raids were the direct response to the supposed attended bombing which led to the breakings into people -
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Transitional immigration
-Most europe immigrants came to escape war,and for better economics opportunities
-In the late 1800's to early 1900's the attitude towards immigrants was bad as well as ill manned
-Marcus Garvey created the back to Africa Movement
-"keep america for america"was used on a large scale for anti immigrants -
19th amendment
-On August 18,1920,the 19th amendment to the U.S constitution granted American women the right to vote,a right know as woman suffrage by 1878 the NWSA -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members pledge themselves to do all in their power conserve the rights of their noble race & to respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the Brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God
-North and the frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life st the scene for Garvey's back to Africa Movement
-He went to Jamaica and was kicked out of U.S
-He wanted the people to come to Liberia which was a movement "back-to-Africa" -
U.N.I.A
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the fatherhood of god
-North & the frustration of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to Africa Movement -
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National Origins Formula
-Restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportion of the population.It aimed to reduce the overall number of unskilled immigrant,and to prevent immigration from changing the ethnic distribution of the population -
Teapot Dome Scandal
-Albert B.fall,a close friends of various oil executives,managed to get reserves transferred from the Navy to the interior department
-Fall,secretly leased the land two private oil companies,including Henry Sinclair's mammoth oil company
-Fall received more than 4000,000 in "BANS,BONDS,& CASH"
-He was found guilty of bribery & became the 1st american to be convicted of a a felony
-Fall & Harding were close friends,during this event it hurt presidents Harding to not be re-elected -
"Charles Lindbergh/solo transatlantic flight"
-Charles Lindbergh & the spirit of St.Louis completed the first non stop flight,from New York to Paris in 1927
-The purpose plane had been named the"Spirit of St. Louis"&the pilot was to be "Charles A.Lindbergh"
-Henry Ford made a Trimurti airplane in 1926 translating flights by Charles Lindbergh & Amelia Farhort helped to promote Cargo & COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS -
First Solo Transatlantic Flight
-Name of the pilot was Charles Lindbergh
-Name of plane was the spirit of st.louis
-start of his flight was Roosevelt Field NY to land at La Bourget airport near Paris
-He changed public opinion on the valu -
"Fats"Waller
-Area of influenced:influenced the area of music,Jazz music originated from African American communities of new Orleans in the U.S during 19th and early 20th century.Jazz music allows an individual musician to expires themselves on their instruments -
Duke Ellington
-He was a jazz composer but he called his music "american music"
-His fifty year career he played over 20,000 performances in Europe,Latin american,the middle east and Asia
-Ellington's orchestra began its four year residency -
Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetics quality of the human population
-The gov. under Theodore Roosevelt created a national heredity commission that was charged to investigate the genetics heritage of the country and to "encourage" the increase of families of good blood and discouraged the vicious elements in the cross-bred American civilization
-Hitler believed that the Aryan people which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world -
Emergency Quota Act
-Restricted immigration into the U.s
-Due to the immigration statistics at this time,the program favored immigration that came mostly from western & northern Europe
-The reason for passing the Act was that the flood of immigrants in recent years had negative wage effect on Native-born Americans
-Following the WW1,both Europe & U.S were suffering economic & social upheaval the Russian revolution,& the dissolution of both the Austro-Hungarian empire & ottoman empire led to greater immigration -
Quota Act ending with WW2
Nativism- The policy of protecting the interest of natives-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
-The cause of negativism was to protect the natives born Americans specially of Anglo-saxon
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