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Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" 1902
-It was a Harlem Renaissance Artists, he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning on life
-The influenced the value of the African race during the renaissance Gra.
-The crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP) National Association of the advancement of colored people, founded in 1910 -
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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 rime for people passing through same American of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
-Navitits believed that because the U.S now had fewer unskilled jobs available, fewer immigrants should be laid into the country -
Social Darwinism
-Haves were rich people or people that had power
-If you were poor or not educated then it means that they dont 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 summers about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Transition Immigration
-Congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation in 1903-1907
-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 parts of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
-Nativists believed that believed that because the U.S now had fewer unskilled jobs unavailable, fewer immigrants should led into the country -
Henry Ford
-Was an engineer early automobile manufacture
-He introduced the assembly line in 1914 increasing production by moving cae along a conveyor belt while workers comleted their assigned tasks -
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Bolshevik Revolution
-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 feared this was the start of their own communist evolution
-Attorney General A. Micheal Palmer was the leader of the "Palmer Raids" it was to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists especially anarchists from the U.S -
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The Roaring Twenties
-This time period was marked by optimism, celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of American Culture -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members plead themselves to do all in their power to converse 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 Africa movement
-He went to Jamacian 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 fever 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 -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920s involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.S and selling military land
-Events led decades before government and U.S navy officials, new global presence
-Albert B Fall served at sectary of the interior president Warren G. Hardings cabinet
-Scandal left a lasting stain o president reputation -
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 American immigration law, numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system establishing those limits -
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National Origins Formula
-It was an American system of immigration quotes between 1921-1965
-It restricted all Asians and south and east Europeans from entering the US on the bars of existing proportion of the population
-The US was afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communists
-It modified the Chinese exclusion act and the Immigration act of 1924 -
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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 US) as the spoke so it could be clear as to which they were saluting
-In 1954 responding to the threat of the soviet communism (again more national ledge) President Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the word "under God" to the pledge -
Monkey Trial
-Known as "The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes"
-John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Acts which made it unlawful to team 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 church going farmers
-John Scopes lost and had to pay a fine of $100 and the butler act stood strong
-The butlers act was teachers who couldnt deny biblical orgin -
First solo transatlantic flight
-Name of the pilot was Charles Lindberg
-Name of the plane was the spirit of St. Louis
-Start of this flight was Roosevelt field of NY to land at La Bourget Airport near Paris
-He changed public opinion on the value of the air travel and laid the foundation for the future development of aviation -
First solo transatlantic flight
-Name of 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 air travel and laid the foundation for the future development of aviation -
Fats Waller
-Its Jazz music
-was created specifically as them song for the Razaf/Waller/Brook off Broadway musical comedy and radio show
-Aint misbehaving recording of 1929 were hits 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 and the white -
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 this earlier ideas of Eugenics in 1912
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Duke Ellington
-Duke Ellington was a Jazz composer, he called his music "American Music" during his 50 year career he played 20,000 performance
-Ellington's orchestra began a four year residency at Harlems cotton club in 1927
-Ellington gained a maximal profile through his orchestras appearances at the cotton club , his name because known after the success of "It dont mean a thing" and "Mood Indigo"
-The cotton club was for African American composers and for white quinces -
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Nativism in the 20s and 30s
-Nativism- the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
-Nativism had become a term for "opp