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the Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Langston Hughes
it was a Harlem Renaissance artist, 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 of the (NAACP)
National association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
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Red Scare
-Xenophobia is the fear for foreigners
-Many Americans were scared of the communists because the communist had overthrown Russian in 1917 and murdered them
-A series of bomb explosions in 1919 including an attempt on Mitchell Palmer, lead to a campaign against the communities
-Palmer raids caused mass arrest. Palmer violated peoples civil rights palmer lead groups of people searching for communists no communists were discovered, lives were ruled due to the raids. -
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Harlem Renaissance
-The great migration led to the reflection of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural south to the cities of the north, Midwest and west from 1917-1970.
-Mass migration of African americans from the south during world war 1 had helped filled new York's industrial needs.
-The jim crow laws lead to a mass migration from the south to places like new York, and Chicago, because the African Americans wanted to get away from the Jim crow laws and racism -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The member pledge themselves to do all in their power conserve rights of all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of god.
-North and the frustration of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for garveys back to Africa movement.
-He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of united states.
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "back-to-Africa" -
U.N.I.A
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
the member pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all mind kind believing always in the fatherhood of god
North and the frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garveys back to Africa movement
(United negro improvement Association) -
quota Act Ending With WW2
-Nativism: The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
-The cause of Nativism was to protect the native bor americans specially of aglo-saxon extraction, and they are the ones who have superior rights to the "foreign-born". -
teapot dome scandal
- Albert B.Fall, a close friend of various oil executive,managed to get reserves transferred from the navy to get interior department. -Fall, secretly leased the land to two private iol companies including Henry Sinclair mammoth oil company. -Fall received more than $400,000 in "bans, bonds and cash" -He was found guilty of bribery and become the 1st American to be convicted of a felony. -Fall and Harding were close friends, during this event it hurt president harding to not be re-elected.
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Charles LInbergh/solo traslatic flight
Charles and the spirit of St Louis completed the first non stop flight from new York to Paris in 1927
The purpose plane had been named "spirit of St Louis" and the pilot was to be" Charles A Lindbergh"
Henry ford made a Trimurti airplane in 1926 translating flights by Charles Lindbergh an Amelia father helped to promote cargo and 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 value of air travel and laid the foundation for the future development or aviation -
Duke Ellington
-He was a jazz composer but he called his music "American"
-His fifty year career he played over 20,000 performance in Europe, Latin America, the middle east and Asia.
Ellington's orchestra began its four year residency at harlems famous cotton club in 1927 succession of popular radio broadcasts from cotton club brought Ellington national fame.His name became known after the success of "mood indigo" and "it don't mean a thing(if it aint got that swing)(1932) cotton club was for black artists -
Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of belief and practices that aims at improving the genetics quality of the human population.
-the gov under Theodore rosevelt 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 discourage the vicious elements in the cross-bred America civilization.
-Hitler believed that the Aryan people which came from Eugenics were destined t rule the world. -
19th Amendment
On august 18, 1920 the 19th Amendment to the U.S constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right to know as women suffrage
by 1878 the NWSA (National Women suffrage Association) and the collective suffrage movement had gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S congress for a constitutional amendment -
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National Origins Formula
-Restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population.
-It aimed to reduce the overall number of unskilled immigrants, and to prevent immigration from changing the ethnic distribution of the population. -
Father of Naval Aviotion-Glenn Curtiss
Designed seaplanes, early aircraft carriers, hydroplane (take off/water and land on the deck of a ship) Convinced the sec of the navy to buy its 1st aircraft for military use
Constructed the first airplane to cross the Atlantic ocean for the U.S Navy