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Father of naval aviation
*innovations in naval aviation
*Glenn Curtis made the 1st airplane using a similar engine to a car years later he successfully flew his "hydro plane"in 1912 development a larger "flying boat" -
Larigston hughes "the negro speaks of Rivers"
-it was a Harlem renaissance artists, 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 era
-the crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP) National Association Of Colord People, founded on 1910 -
Transitional immigration
*congress strengthened national law whit new legislation in 1903 and 1907
*another change the introduction of pressure -inspection and more rigegorious meical examinations at the point of departure saved time for ppl through the same American of entry and reduced the # of excluded immigrants -
Social darwinism
-haves were rich people, or ppl that had power
-if you were poor or not education
Ed 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 gra ham summers about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
Henry Ford immigrants
*installed a mechanized assembly line to make production cheaper and faster
*ford company assembly assembly $18.35/hr
*worked 3 days a week and 8 hr a day -
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Edward Kennedy "DUKE"Elington
*Duke lead a 10 piece orchestra at cotton clb titled "the negro spirituals"
*cotton club only allowed blacks to perform and whites to watch
*his work brought white and blacks together -
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Red scare
Xenophobia irrational feat of foreigners
-the USA was scared of the communist party that was forming in the USA when a wave a strikes also hit the waited states in 1919
-the palmer raids were the direct response to the supposed attempted bombings which led to the breaking into ppls house violating their rights headed by attorney general Alexander Mitchell Palmer -
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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 coulture -
19th amendment
-politicians needed more votes to win, they decided to let woman vote
-this amendment is also known as SUFFRAGE
-before this rigth was founded woman didn't have the rigth to vote.
-the effects were that to pull votes from woman were later given more woman's rigth -
Uniae
*founder- Jamaican born, Marcus Garvey
*purpose so black am. Will take pride in their race and cultured at art black owned businesses and investments
*Garvey lost support when he was deported to Jamaica for the fraud this movement would lend it's self to Dr.Martin luther king and the black phanthers -
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Nativism in the 1921-1945
-dislike of foreigns
-the red scare which.had anarchist bombings the sacco & vanzetti case
-migration of afican Americans from south to northern cities increased racial tensions whit kkk. Targeted African Americans and new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others -
Emergency quota act
+cause. # of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,000 to 805,000 ppl after ww1
+term. Established maximum # 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.a. to have a secure job
+groups like the kkk strongly supported the emergency quota act and national origins formula to reduce the # of foreigners comings into the u.s.a. -
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Teapot dome scandal
*1920s involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.S. and selling millitary land events led devades before gov. And u.s. navy officials, new global presence -
Pledge of alliance
*the original POAIS "I pledge of alliance to my flag and the republic for which it stands
the changes
*the changes-I pledge alliance to the flag of the USA and the republic -
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Harlem renaissance
,during ww1 African Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was to lentil American soldiers returned home they found racism against African Americans deeply entrenched -
Scopes trial monkey trial
*as an American resident legal case in 1925 in which a
teacher from
Tennessee violated the outlet act, which taught about evolution
*this made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funder school
*William Jennings was the prosecutor, the attorney who defended scopes was convicted for teaching. His 1 dollar fine was later convicted -
First SOLO transatlantic flight
-name of the pilot was charles Lindberg
-name of the planew was the spirit of st.louis
-start of this flight was Roosevelt field NY to land at la burger airport near paris
-he changed public opinion on the value of air travel and laid the foundation for the future development of aviation -
Fats waller
*influenced the era of jazzing
*jazz music is a genre that originated from African American *community in the 19th and early 20th century -
Eugenics
*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 omission that was charged to investigate the generic 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 -
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National origins formula
It stablished ho many immigrants could enter the usa restricted by origin discriminated ppl oit side western europe