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The negro speaks of rivers
Langston Hughes
It was a Harlem Renaissance artist , 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 race during the Renaissance Era
The crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP)
National Association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
Social Darwinism
-Have 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 and they were a have not
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Red Scare
-Xenophobia is the fear for foreigners
-Many Americans were scared of the communists because the communist had overthrown Russia in 1917 and murdered them
-A series of bomb explosions in 1919 including an attempt on Mitchell Palmer, lead to a campaign against the communities
-Palmer raids caused mass arrest . Palmer violated people's civil rights Palmer lead groups of people searching for communists
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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 West from 1917-1970
Mass migration of African Americans from the south during WWI had helped filled New York industrial needs
The Jim Crow laws leads to a mass migration from the South to places like New York and Chicago, because the African Americans wanted to get away from the Jim Crow laws and racism -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
The members pledge themselves to do all in their powers 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 frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life st the scene for Garvey's back to Africa Movement
He went to Jamaica and was kicked out of U.S
-He wanted the people to come to Liberia which was a movement "back-to-Africa" -
U.N.I.A
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
the members pledge 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 Fatherhood of God
North and the frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to Africa Movement
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Nationals Origins Formula
Restricts immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population
It aimed to reduce the overall number of unskilled immigrant , and to prevent immigration from changing the ethnic distribution of the population.
It discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans , the government only allowed 2% of the population into the nation.
The Asian exclusion act was modified which barred Asians completely out.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
1920's 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 as secretary of the interior in president Warren G. Harding's Cabinet
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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 including Henry Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company
Fall received more than $400,000 in "bands , bonds and cash"
He was found guilty of bribery and became the 1st American to be convicted of a felony
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Charles Lindbergh/solo transatlantic flight
Charles and the spirit of St Louis completed the first non stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927
The purpose plane had been named "Spirit of St.Louis " and the pilot was to be" Charles A Lindbergh "
Henry Ford mad a Trimurti airplane in 1926 translating flights by Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Farther helped to promote Cargo and Commercial instruments -
First solo transatlantic 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 La Bourget Airport near Paris
-He changed Public Opinion on the value of Air Travel and Laid the foundation for the future development or aviation -
Duke Ellington
He was a jazz composer but he called his music "American Music"
His fifty year career he played over 20,000 performances in Europe , Latin America , the Middle East and Asia
Ellington's orchestra began its four year residency at Harlem's famous cotton club in 1927 succession of popular radio broad basis from cotton club brought
Ellington national fame this name became know after the success of "mood indigo " and " i don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing " (1932) -
Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of belief and practices that aims at improving the genetics quality of the human population
The gov. under Theodore Roosevelt created a national heredity commission that was charged to investigate the genetics heritage of the country and to "encourage " the increase of families of good blood and discouraged the vicious elements in the cross- bred American civilization
Hitler believed that the Aryan people which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world -
Emergency Quota Act
-Restricted immigration into the U.S
-Due to the immigration statistics at the time, the program favored immigration that came mostly from Western and Northern Europe
-The reason for passing the Act was that the flood of immigrants in recent years had negative wage effect on Native-born Americans
Following the WWI , both Europe and U.S suffering economic and social upheaval the Russian revolution and the dissolution of both the Austria-Hungarian empire and ottoman empire led . -
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Transitional Immigration
Most European Immigrant came to escape war and for better economic opportunities
In the late 1800's to early 1900's the attitude towards immigrants was bad as well as marred
Marcus Garvey created the back to Africa Movement
-"keep America for Americans" was used on a large scale fit anti immigrants -
19th Amendment
On August 18, 1920 , the 19th Amendment to the U.S constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right know as women suffrage
by 1878 the NWSA ( National Woman suffrage Association ) and the collective suffrage movement had gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S Congress for a constitutional Amendment -
Quote Act ending with WWI
Nativism - the policy of protecting the interests of native- born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
The cause of nativism was to protect the native born Americans especially of Anglo- Saxon extinction and those are the ones who have superior rights to the "Foreign- born" -
Father of Naval Aviation- Glenn Curtiss
Designed seaplanes , early aircraft carriers, hydroplane (take off/water and land on the deck of a ship) Convinced the Sec of the navy to buy it's 1st aircraft for military use
constructed the 1st airplane to cross the Atlantic Ocean for the US Navy