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Langston Hughes
It was Harlem renaissance artists he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning in life
If 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 rich people or people that had power
If you were poor or not educated then it means that they don't deserves 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 summers 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-inspections and more rigorous medical examinations at the point of departure saved time for people passing through same american of 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 laid into the country -
Henry Ford innovation
When Henry Ford first adopted the assembly line to the production they often achieved dramatic guns & consumer benefits from lower prices
Skill workers were no longer needed in complex manufacturing operations like car assembly
Model T was introduced in 1905 & introduced the assembly line in 1914
Assembly line was efficient he was able to double wages overnight while slashing prices
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Bolshevik revolution (red scare )
Xenophobia is the intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries
The end of ww1 brought new fears to many Americans of communists anarchists and immigrants
when a wave strikes also hit the u.s in 1919 many Americans fears this was the stalt of their own communist revolution
Attorney general A. Michel Palmer was the leader of the Palmer raids it was to captive aviest and depot radical leftists especially Anarchists from the United States -
Father of Naval Aviation- Glenn Curtis
Design seaplanes early aircraft carriers hydroplane (takeoff/ 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 1st airplane to cross the Atlantic ocean fro the us navy -
19 th Amendment
19 th Amendment to the u.s constitution granted American women the right vote a right known as woman suffrage
1848 the movement for women's right launched
on a national level with a convention it become a centerpiece of women right movement after 10 yrs battle the passage of the 19 th amendment posses -
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey
the member plede themselves to do all in their power to 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 and the frustration of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to African 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 -
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The roaring twenties
This time period is marked by optimism celebration experimentation and social change but also fear of external influence and a loss of American culture -
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Nativism
Nativism the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against does of immigrants
Nativism has become a term for opposition to immigration based on fears that the immigrants will distort or spoiled existing cultural values
The Ku Klux Klan dead for decades found new life in 1915 Klan members were hostile to immigrants Catholics Jews and African American -
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National origins formula
It was an american system immigration quotas between 1921-1965
It-restricted for all Asians and south and east Europeans from entering the u.s on the basis is of existing proportion of the population
The u.s. were afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communities
it modified the Chinese exclusive act and the immigration act of 1924 -
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Teapot dome scandal
1920's involved national security big oil companies & corruption of u.s and selling military land
Events led decades before government & u.s navy officials new global presence
Albert B. Fall served as secretary of the interior in president Warren G. Harding's cabinet
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Emergency quota act
Restricted immigration to the u.s
Cause a high number of immigrants became a major
Northern Europeans were allowed pin similar culture
Americans weren't pleased with increase of political power in immigration groups WW1 just happened and wanted to come to america -
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the pledge of allegiance
In 1923 the words "the Flag of the United States of America" were added. who could theoretically be pledging their native land (rather than the U.S.) as they spoke — would be clear as to which flag they were saluting.
In 1954 Responding to the threat of Soviet Communism (again more national fear), President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God" to the pledge. -
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Harlem Renaissance
During WW1 African Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was tolerant in Americans soldiers returned home home they found racism against African American as deeply entrenced.Two decades from 1910 witnessed the movement known as the great migration about 2 millions African Americans out of the south to the punished land of the north east or Midwest. -
Monkey Trial
Known as the states of Tennessee vs John Thomas Scopes
John scopes was accused of violating Tennessee butter acts which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school
Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow & cross the aisle was William Jennings Bryan
Most people on jury were church going farmers
John Scopes lost had to pay a fine of $100 & the butler act stood strong until 1967
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First solo transatlantic flight
Name of the pilot was Charles Lindbergh
Name of plane was the spirt of st Louis
Start of his flight was Roosevelt field NY to the Bourget airport near Paris
He change public opinion on the value of air travel and land the foundation for the future development of aviation -
Fats Waller
Its jazz music
Was created specifically as a them song for the razaf Waller/brook off Broadway musical comedy & radio show
Aint misbehaving recording of 1929 were hits in the AS CAP ranking for that year
his radio show was in every bodes living room black white he used his radio show to influence the black and white -
Eugenic
The concept of eugenics was movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race
Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin had come up with the earlier ideas of Eugenics in 1912
Eugenics was carried out by the Nazi party during WW2 by Adolf Hitler during the genocide of the Jews -
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was a jazz composer he called his music "American music" during his 50 years career he played 20000 performances
Ellington's orchestra began a four year residents at Harlem cotton club in 1927
Ellington gained a maximal profile through his orchestra appearances at the cotton club his name became became after the success of it don't mean a thing and mood indigo
The cotton club was for African American composers and for white advice