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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 of the (NAACP) National Association of the advancement of colored people, founded in 1910 -
Social Darwinism
-Haves were people who were rich or had power
-If you were poor or uneducated then it means that they dont deserve to have money or power and they were a have not
-"What social classes own to each other" was a pamphlet by William Graham Sumner about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
Henry Ford Innovations
-Installed a mechanized assembly line to make production cheaper and faster
-Ford company assembly 18.35/hr
-Worked 3 days a week and 8 hours a day -
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Transitional Immigration
-WW1 immigration was reduced to a trickle by the conflict in Europe (WW1)
-Natavist feeling against immigrants led to congress to restrict immigration from Europe for the 1st time
-Immigrants were over flooding the urban areas
-Economy was drawn down due to little job available -
19th Amendment
-At the time U.S was founded, its female citizens didn't share all the same rights as men
-This amendment gave woman the right to vote in 1920
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UNIEA
-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 right of all mankind believing always in the Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God
-North and the 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" -
Emergency Quota Act
Cause - # of Immigrants had grown almost 600%
-Raging 141,000 - 805,000 people after WW1
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National Origins Formula
-If established now many immigrants could enter the U.S. restricted by origin discriminated people outside Western Europe
-The government only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
-The Asian exclusion Act was modified which banned Asians completely OUT! -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920's involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.S. and selling military land
-Events led decades before gov and U.S. navy officials, new global presence
-Albert B. Fall served secretary of the interior in president Warren G Harding's cabinet
-Scandal left a lasting stain on the presidents reputation -
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Nativism
-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 robbery and KKK targeted African Americans dans lynchings and new foreigners using the emergency Quota Act to scare others -
National Origins Act
Purpose-Established of a quota system limited immigration from southern and East Europe also established a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter the U.S. all Asians were exuded from immigration
-Emergency Quota Act that limited immigration from any country to 3% this Act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 persons between 1920-1922 -
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Harlem Renaissance
-During WW1 African-Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was in american. Soldiers returned home, they found racism against African-Americans as deeply entrenched
-Two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement known as the "Great migration" about 2 million African Americans out of the south to the "promise land" of the Northeast or Midwest
-The Harlem Renaissance or "New negro movement occurred as a result of an increase in radical American Intellectuals 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 an unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-found school
-William Jennings was the prosecutor, The attorney who defended scopes who was convicted for teaching evolution. His $1.00 fine was later set aside
-The town first made the fine to collect money, due to the great depression -
Fats Waller
-Its jazz music
-was created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf/Waller/Brook off Broadway
-musical comedy & radio show
-Aint misbehaving recording do 1929 were nits in the ASCAP ranking for that year
-His radio show was in every bodies living room black,white he used his radio station show to influence the black and white -
Father Of Naval Aviation
-Glen H. Curtiss designed a seaplane that can take off and land on water
-3 Years later he flew his " Hydroplane " in San Diego Bay landing on a naval ship this caused U.S. Navy to buy it's first aircraft
-Curtiss developed a larger " flying boat "
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Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim at improving the genetic quality of the human population
-The government under Theodore Roosevelt created national heard by commission that was charged to investigated the genetic heritage of the country and to "encourage" the increase of families of good blood and (discourage )the vicious elements in the cross-bed American Civilization
-Hitler believed that the Aryan people which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world -
Pledge of Allegiance
-In 1954 "Under God" was added to the pledge, in a response to the threat of communist
Why-Congress after a campaign by the lengths of Columbus. The Pledge was now both Patriotic Oath and a public prayer -
Red Scare
Xenophobia-Irrational fear of foreigners
Causes-The U.S was scared of the communist party that was forming in the U.S when a wave strikes also hitting the United States in 1919
-The Palmer 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 Vanzetti were both Italians accused for supposedly begin communist and were sent to death for robbery