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Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of River"
-It was a Harlem Renaissance Artists, he wrote this poem to revolve the importance of roots and the way they jprovide 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 found in 1910 -
Social Darwinism
-haves were rich ppl, or ppl 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
-"what social classes owe to each other" was a pamphlet by William Graham Sumners about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Transitional Immigration
-Congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation in 1903 and 1907
-Another change, the introduction of pre-inspection and more-rigorous medical examinations at the point of departure saved time for people passing through some american entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
-Nativists believed that because the U.S now had fewer unskilled jobs available, fewer immigrants should be led into the country -
Henry Ford Innovations
-Installed a mechanized assembly line to make production cheaper and faster
-Ford Company Assembly 18.35/hr
-Worked 3 days a wk and 8hrs a day -
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
-Duke lead a 10 piece orchestra at cotton club titled the "The Negro Spiritual"
-Cotton Club only allowed blacks to perform and whites to watch
-Wrote thousands of compositions
-His work brought white and blacks together -
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Red Scare
Xenophobia- intense or irrational dislike or fear of ppl from other countries-Threat of communist spread in Eur. and feared Union Strikes in the U.S made Americans fear their own Communist Revolution-Palmer Raids- Italian anarchist set off a bomb outside Attorney Palmer's home he set up a round-up of suspected communist but most were released due to lack of evidence-Sacco&Vanzetti-immigrants that were affected by the Anti-Communist hysteria were wrongly convictedandexecuted for a crime -
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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 Ammendment
-Politicians needed more votes to win, they decided to let women vote
-This amendment is also known as suffrage
-B4 this right was funded woman didn't have the right to vote
-The effects were that to pull votes ,women were later given more rights -
Father of Naval Aviation
-innovations in naval aviation
-Glenn Curtis made the 1st airplane using a similar engine to a car yrs later he successfully flew his hydroplane in 1912 developed a larger flying boat
-effects w all his innovations, helped further naval aviation, later air craft, carriers -
UNIAE
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
The members pledge themselves to do all their power to conserve the rights of their noble rave and 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 ot cope with urban life set the scene for Garveys back to Africa movement
-he went to Jamaica and was kicked out of the U.S
he wanted the ppl to come back to Liberia which was a movement "back to Africa" -
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Nativism
-A dislike of foreigners
-The Red Scare
-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 were sentenced to death for robbery, and KKK targeted African Americans during lynchings and new foreigners using the Emergency Quota Act to scare others. -
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National Origins Formula
-It established how many immigrants could enter the U.S restricted by origin discriminated ppl outside Western Europe
-The Govt. only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
-The Asian Exclusion Act 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 and selling military land
-events led decades before govt. 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 president reputation -
Emergency Quota Act
-Cause - # of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,000 ti 805,000 ppl after WWI
-Term- established max # of ppl who could enter the U.S "cut European immigration"
How It's Positive- allows immigrants that are already living in the U.S to have a secure job
Groups like KKK strongly supported the Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Formula to reduce the # of foreigners coming into the U.S -
Pledge of Alligiance
The original POA is
' I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands the changes " i pledge allegiance to the flag of the USA and to the republic the words "my flag" were replaced by " the flag of US" in 1923, b/c some foreign born ppl might have in mind the flag of the country of their birth instead of the U.S flag -
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Harlem Renaissance
During WWI African-Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was tolerant in American soldiers that returned home, they found racism against African-Americans as deeply entrenched
Two decades form 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement known as the "great migration" about 2 million African Americans out of the south to the "Promised Land"
The Harlem Renaissance or "New Negro Movement' occured as a result of an increase in radical American Intellectuals and urban migration to Harlem -
Scopes Monkey Trial
-As an American legal case in 1925 in which a teacher from TN violated the butler act, which taught about evolution
-This made it unlawful to each human evolution in any state-funded school
-William Jennings was the prosecutor, the attorney who defended scopes 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 -
First Solo Transatlantic Flight
-Charles Lindbergh piloted St. Louis
-Flight started in Roosevelt field NY to land at La Bourget Airport near Paris -
Fats Waller
-Waller influence the era of jazz music
-Jazz music is a genre that originated from African Americans community and the late 19th and early 20th century
-Popular song- Ain't misbehaving is based on a night club and ppl having fun
-Waller also had a radio show that brought black and white ppl together -
Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population
-The Govt. under Theo 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 the Aryan ppl which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world
