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social darwinism
-haves were rich people ,or ppl that had power
-if you were poor or not educated then h means that they don't deserve to have money or power and they were a have not
-concept behind social darwinsin was racism,money & power
"what social classes owe to each other" was a pamphlet by William graham Sumner about solving social problems created 1883-1903 -
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TRANSITIONAL IMMIGRATION
-congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation in 1903 & 1907
-another change the intro.of pre-inspection & more rigorous medical examinations at the point of departure saved time for people passing thru some American of entry &reduced the #of excluded immigrants
-nativists believed that because the US now had fewer unskilled jobs available fewer immigrants should be led into the country -
henery ford innovations
-worked 3 days a week & 8 hours a day
-installed a mechanic assembly line to make production cheaper & faster -
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edward kennedy " duke " ellington
-duke lead a 10 piece orchestra a cotton club titled "the negro spirituals"
-cotton club only allowed blacks to perform & whites to watch
-wrote thousand of competitions
-his work brouht white 4 blacks together -
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red scare
-xenophobia intense or irrational dislike or fear of ppl from other countries
-threat of communists spread in Europe & fear of union strikes in the US made Americans fear their own communist revolution in the US
-Palmer raids after-an Italian anarchist set off a bomb outside of American attorney Palmer home he set up a round of suspected communists but most were released due to lack of evidence -
19th amendment
- politicians needed more votes to win,they decided to let women vote. -this amendment is also known as suffrage -before this right was founded women didn't have the right to vote -the effects were that to pull votes from the fight of women were later given more women rights
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UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-the members pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race & to respect the rightsof all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of man & the father hood of god.
-north & the frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garvey & back to Africa movement
-he went to Jamaican & was kicked out of US.
-he wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "back-to-Africa" -
father of naval aviation
innovations -the 1st airplane using a similar engine to a car. years later he successfully flew his "hydroplane" , in 1912s developed a larger "flying boat"
effects-with all his innovations helped further naval aviation later aircraft carriers -
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nativism in the 1920s & 30s
-a dislike of foreigns
-the red scare which had anarchist bombings, the solco & vanzette case.
-migration of African American from south to northern cities increased racial tensions with kkk -
emergency qouta act
cause- # of immigrants had grown almost 60% ranging 141,000-805,000
people after WW1
TERM-established max. #of ppl who could enter the US. "EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION"
how its positive- allows immigrants that are already living in US have a sewer job. groups like the "KKK" strongly supported the EQA & national origins formula to reduce the # of forgeins coming to the US -
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teapot dome scandal
-1920s involved national security big oil companies & corruption of US & selling military land
-events led decades before gov. & US navy officials , new global presence
-albert b. fall served secretary of the interior in president warren g. hardings cabient
-scandle left a lasting stain on presidents reputation -
pledge of allegiance
-the original POA i "i pledge allegiance to my flag & the republic for which it stands
-the changes "i pledge allegiance to THE flag OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & TO THE REPUBLIC
-the words "my flag" were replaced by "the flag of the US" in 1923 because some foreign-born people might have in mind the flag of their country of their birth instead of the US flag -
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 in unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funed school
-William Jennings was the prosecutor , the attorney who depended scopes was convicted for teaching evolution his $1 fine was late set aside
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FIRST SOLO TRANSATLANTI FLIGHT
-name of the pilot was Charles Lindbergh
-name of plane was the spirit of st. Louis
-start of this flight was Roosevelt field NY to land at land at la bourgeois airport near pairs
-the changed public opinion on the value of air travel & laid 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 nits in the ASCAP ranking for that year
-his radio show was in every bodes living room black,white he used his radio show to influence the black & white -
harlem renaissance
during WW1 African Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was tulement in American soldiers returned home , they found racism against African Americans deeply entrenched -
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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 gov. only allowed 2% of the population int the nation
-the Asian exclusion act was modified which barred Asians completely OUT! -
eugencies
Hitler believed that the Aryan people which came from eugancies were designated to rule the world