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Langston Hughes
-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 American race during the Renaissance Era
-The crisis is the official magazine of the NAACP 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 deserve to have money or power
-Concept behind social darwinism, was racism, money, and power
"What social classes owe to each other" was a pamphlet by William Graha Sumners about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Transitional Immigration
-Congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation
-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 parts of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants -
Henry Ford
-Was an engineer early automobile manufacture
-He introduced the assembly line in 1914 increasing production by moving car along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned tasks -
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Harlem Renaissance
-The great migration led to the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural south to the cities of the north midwest and was from 1917-1970
-Mass migration of African Americans from the south during ww1 had helped file new york industrial need
-Jim American Crow law -
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Bolshevik Revolution
-Xenophobia is the intense dislike or fear of immigrants
-The end of ww1 brought new fears of American of communists, ararchists, and immigrants
-When a wave strikes also hit the U.S. in 1919, many Americans feared this was the start of their own communist evolution -
Father of Aviation - Glenn Curtiss
-Designed seaplanes, early aircraft carriers, hydroplane(take off from water and land on the deck of a ship)
-Convicted the sec of navy to buy its first aircraft for military use
-Constructed the 1st airplane to cross the atlantic ocean fir the us navy -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members 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 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" -
Red Scare
-Xenophobia is the fear of foreigners
-Many americans were scared if the communists because the communist had overthrown Russia in 1917 and murdered them
-A series of bomb explosions in 1919 including attempt on Mitchell Palmer led to a campaign against the communists -
19th Amendment
-The amendment granted American women the right to vote, a right known as suffrage and the collective suffrage movement had gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S. congress for a constitutional Amendment
-This has allowed women to have the right to vote to this day -
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The Roaring Twenties
-This time period is marked by optimsim, celebration, experimentation, and social change but also fear of external influences and a loss of american culture -
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Nativism of the 20s and 30s
-Nativism- the policy protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
-Nativism has become a term for "opposition to immigration" based on fears that the immigrants will distort or spoil 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 americans -
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National Origins Formula
-American system of Immigration quotas between 1921-1965
-It restricted for all Asians and South and East Europeans from entering the U.S. on the basis of existing proportion of the population
-The U.S. was afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communists
-It modified the chinese exclusion act and immigration act of 1924 -
Emergency Quota Act
-Restricted immigration into the U.S
-The reason for passing this act was that the food of immigrants of recent years had negative wage effects on Native ban America
-Added two new features to the Americans immigration law, numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system establishing those limits -
Teapot Dome Scandal
-Albert B. Fall, a close friend of various oil executives, managed to get reserves transferred from the Navy to the Interior department
-Fall secretly leased the land to two private oil companies
-Fall received more than $400,00 in "bans, bonds, and cash"
-Found guilty of bribery and became the 1st American to be convicted of a felony -
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Pledge of Allegiance
-In 1923 the word "the flag of the united states of america" were added because who could theoretically be pledging their native land (rather than U.S.) as they spoke so it could be clear as to whcih they were saluting
-In 1954 responding to the threat of the soviet union communism (again more national pledge) President Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the word "under god" to the pledge -
Monkey Trial
-Known as "The state of Tennessee U.S John Thomas Scopes"
-John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Acts which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school
-Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow and across the aisle was William Jennings Bryan
-Most people on jury were churchgoing farmers
-John Scopes lost and had to pay a fine of $100 and the butler act stood strong until 1967
-The butler's act was teachers who couldn't deny biblical origin -
First Solo Translatlantic Flight
-Name for the pilot was Charles Lindberg
-Name of the plane was the spirit of St. Louis
-Start of this flight was Roosevelt field NY to land at La Bourget Airport near Paris
-He changed public opinion on the value of the future development of aviation -
Fats Waller
-Area of influence, influenced the area of music, Jazz originated from African American communities from new Orleans in the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th century
-Popular worn listed
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Eugenics
-The concept of eugenics was a 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 ww1 by Adolf Hitler during the genocide of the Jews