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Langston Hughes "The negros speaks of Rivers"
-it was a Harlem Renaissance Artist, he wrote this poem to revolve the importance of roots and the way they provide meaning in life
-It influence the vaule 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 -
Social Darnwinism
-haves were rich people or people that had power
-if you were poor or not educated thenit means that they don't deserve to have money or power and they where a have not
-concept behind social Darwinism was racism, money and power
what social classes owe to each other was a pamphlet by William Graham Sumner's about Solving social problems 1883-1903 -
Red Scare
*xenophobia intense o irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries threat of communism spread in Europe far union strikes in the U.S. made American far their own communist revolution *Palmer Raids, a Italian anarchist set off a bomb outside of attorney palmer's home he set up a round up in suspected combat most were due to lack of evidence Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrants that were affected by the anti communist hysteria they were convicted an executed for a robbery crime -
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Transitional Immigration
-Congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation
- Another change, the introduction of pre- inspection and more - rigorous medical examinations at the paint of departure saved time for people passing through some American entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
-believed that because the u.s. now had fewer jobs available, fewer immigrants should be laid into the country -
Roaring twenties
*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
-At the time u.s. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men.
-This amendment gave the women the right to vote in 1920.
-United Suffrage laws across the u.s. will later move into women's rights.
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UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
- The members pledged themselves to do all in their power conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God.
-North n the frustrations of struggling to Cope with urban life set the scene of Garvey's Back to Africa Movement
-He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of U.S.
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "Back to Africa -
Father of naval aviation
-innovations in Naval aviation
-Glenn Curtis made the 1st airplane using a similar engine to car years late he successfully flew hi hydroplane in 1912 developed a larger flying boat
-effects w all his innovations, helped further naval aviation, late air crafted, carriers -
Henry Ford
- When manufacture first adopted their assembly line to their product process, they often achieved 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 and hour, so they could afford the model T they built
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Harlem Renaissance
-A period in time when African American achievements in art, music, and literature flourished
-They used their art to work for goals of civil rights and equality
-First time African American paintings, writings, and became absorbed into mainstream media and white America
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Emergency Quota Act
Cause-# of immigrants had grown almost 600% Ranging 141,000-805,00 People after WW1
Term- established max # of people who could enter the untied states. " cut European immigration"
How its positive-allows immigrants that are already living in the u.s. have secure jobs.
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National Origins Formula
- It established how many immigrants could enter the u.s. restricted by origin discriminated people outside western Europe -The government only allowed 2% of the population info the nation -The Asian exclusion was modified which barred Asians completely out
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920's involved national security big oil companies and corruption of u.s. an selling military land
- events led decades before gov and u.s. navy officials, new global precense
-Albert B. fall served secretary of the interior president warren G. Harding's cabinet
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Nativism
- A dislike of foreigners -The red scare which had anarchist bombings The Saeco and 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 to death for robbery and kkk targeted African Americans dahs lynching and new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others
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Pledge of allegiance
*the original POA is "I pledge of allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands
*the changes "I pledge of allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the republic
*the words "to my flag" were replaced by the united states in 1923, because some foreign born might have in mind the flag of the country of their birth instead of the u.s. flag -
Scopes trial- monkey trial
- As an American legal case in1925 in a which a teacher from Tennessee violated the butler act , which taught about evolution
- This made unlawful to teach human evolution his $1.00 fine was late set aside
- The town first made the fine to collect money due to great depression
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Charles Lindbergh/ Solo translatic flight
- Charles Lindbergh and the spirit of St.Louis completed the first nonstop flight, from new York to paris in 1927 -the propose plane had been named the spirit of st. Louis and the pilot was to be Charles A. Lindbergh -Henry Ford made a trimotor airplane in 1926 translatic flights by Charles Lindbergh an Amelia farhart helped to promote cargo and commercial instruments
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Duke Ellington
- music is at type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation -the cotton club was in Harlem new York at first it was for a white audience but then both were allowed, where the duke played -popular song was " it don't mean anything if you aint got that swing" this song introduced the swing era -the influence was music was not segregated by race but heard from all races over the radio
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Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population
-The government under Theodore Roosevelt created a national heredity commission that was charged to investigate the genetic heritage of the country and to encourage the increase of families of good blood and discourage the vicious elements in the cross bred American civilization
-Hitler believed that Aryan people which came from eugenics were destined to rule the world -
fats w. Aller
-waller influence the are of jazzing
-jazz music is a genre that originated from African American community an the late 19th and early 20th century
-popular song- an misbehaving Is based on a night club and people having fun
-waller also had a radio show that brought black & white people together