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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 pamphelet by William graha sumners aout solvng social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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 -
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 from the south during ww1 had helped file new York industrial need
-jim American crow law -
UNIAE
-marcus Mosiah gravey
-the members plead 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 gravels back to Africa movement
-he went to Jamaica and was kicked out of the U.S.
-he wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "back to africa" -
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 allowed women to have the right to vote to this day -
Red scare
-xenophobia is the fear of foreigners
-many Americans were scared if the communists 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 -
Langston hughes
-author and poet
-pop. for "negro speaks of rivers"
-L. hughes was named the "most renowned af.am. poet in the 20th century"
-some issues in creative was including jazz & blues in his poetry
-hughes captured the scene of harlem life -
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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 KKK, 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 basics of existing proportion of population
-the U.S. was afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communists
-it modified the Chinese exclusion act and immigration act of 1924 -
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 400,000 in "bans, bonds, and cash"
-found guilty of bribery and became the first American to be convicted of a felony -
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 -
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Pledge of alligiance
-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 the U.S.) as they spoke so it could be clear as to which 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 butler acts which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school
-most people on jury were churchgoing farmers -
first solo transatlantic 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 -
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 -
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