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Social Darwinism
Some people prospered and others did not, economists, social philosophers and business leaders embraced the philosophy of Social Darwinism. This philosophy adapted the ideas of the British naturalism. Charles Darwin and applied them to human society. Social Darwinism said stronger people, businesses, and nations would prosper, weaker ones would fail, no one had the right to interfere with the process. -
Father of Naval Aviation
Between 1908 and 1910 Glenn H. Curtis helped build a number of aircraft and set several early Aviation records. It made everything more faster and easier to transport. He also created the Hydro plane and sea plane which marked the birth of the US Navy Aviation and Army Air Corps. -
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The Roaring Twenties
This time period is marked optimism, celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of 'American culture'. -
Red Scare
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The 19th Amendment
To the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights, the amendment also failed to bring about the equality of economic sexes that sponsors hoped for. -
National Origins Formula
The National Origins Act of 1924 had established immigration quotas that discriminated strongly against people from outside Western Europe. This Act modified the immigration act of 1924. The Act set a quota of about 150,000 people annually it discriminated against southern Europeans and barred Asians completely. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Act legislation restricted new immigration of 3% of the numbers of residents per year from their country of origin all ready living in United States. The act limited the immigrant helped the economy out. Another name for the act is The Emergency Immigration Act. -
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Nativism in the 20's
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. They created nativism because immigrants were willing to work for any wage which would make it harder for for native born Americans to find a job. They targeted the Jewish and Non Catholic. The Ku Klux Klan was one of the most radical Racist groups that used this concept to gain public acceptance. -
Changes to the Pledge of Allegiance.
The changes between the 1924 Pledge of Allegiance and the 1954 Pledge of Allegiance is that it seems that religion took part in it. The only changes made to it was the addition "Under God" to the Pledge. In 1923 the word "my" was dropped from the Pledge of Allegiance, and the words "the Flag of the United States of America" were added. -
Fatts Waller
Fatts Waller was a jazz professional pianist. He wrote "Ain't Misbehaving" and "Honey Sickle Rose". He was very famous in the black community for his jazz and radio show. -
Harlem Renaissance artist- Duke Ellington -jazz music, Cotton Club, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Duke Ellington was an American Composer, pianist, and band leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years in 1974.