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Langston Hughes
-It was a Harlem renaissance artist, he wrote the people to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning in life
-It influenced the value of the african race during the renaissance act -
Social Darwinism
-Have 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 and they were a have not
-Concept behind Social Darwinism was racism,money, and power -
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Transitional 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 Americans parts of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
-Nativists believed that because the US now has fewer unskilled jobs available, fewer immigrants should be led into the country -
Henry Ford
-Was an engineer early automobile manufacturer
-He introduced the assembly line in 1914, increasing production by moving cars along a conyevor belt while workers completed their task -
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Bolshevik Revolution
-Xenophobia is the intense or irrational fear of poeple from other countries
-The end of WW1 brought new fears to many americans of communist, anarchist, and immigrants
-When a wave strikes also hit the US in1919, many americans feared this was the start of their own communist evolution
-Attorney general A.Mitchell Palmer was the leader of the "Palmer raids" it was to capture, arrest, and deport radical leftists especially anrachists from the US -
19th amendment
-On August 20,1920, 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 -
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The Roaring Twenties
-This time period is marked by optimism,celebration,experimentation, and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of "American Culture" -
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Red Scare
-Xenophobia-irrational fear of forefingers
Causes-The US was scared of the communist party that was forming in the US when wave strikes also hit the US in 1919
-The Palmer Raids were the direct responses to the supposed attended bombings which to the breaking into peoples houses violating theirs rights headed by attorney general Alexander Mitchell Palmer
-Sacco and Vanzetti were both italians accused for supposedly being communist and were sentenced to death for robbery -
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National Origins Formula
-It was an american system of immigration quotes between 1921-1965
-It restricted for all asians and south and east europeans from entering the US on the basis of existing proportion of the population
-The US were afraid of immigrants talking jobs and communists
-It modified the Chinese exclusion act and the immigration act of 1924 -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920s involved national security,big oil companies & corruption of US and selling military land
-Events led decades before government & US navy officals, new global precense
-Albert B.Fall served as secretary of the interior in president Warren G.Hardings
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Emergency Quota Act 1921
-Restricted immigration to the U.S.
-Cause a high number of immigrants became a major concern
-Northern europeans were allowed in
-Americans werent pleased with increase of political power in immigration groups ww1 just happened and wanted to come to america -
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Nativism
-A dislike of foreigners
-The red scare which has anarchist bombings the sacco & vanazetti case
-Migration of African Americans from South to Northern cities increased racial tensions with KKK
-During red scare anarchist targetted judges,politians,law enforcemnt officals, 2 foreingers sentenced to death for robbery & KKK targetted African Americans dans lynchings and new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others -
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The 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 as they spoke so it to which they were saluting
-In 1954 responding to the threat of soviet communism, President Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the word"under god" to the pledge -
Monkey Trail 1925
-Known as 'The State of Tennesse vs John Thomas Scopes'
-John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessees better acts when made unharmful to teach human evolution in any state funded school
-Scope was defended by Clarence Darrow & across the asle was William Jennings Bryan
-John Scopes lost & had to pay a fine of 100$ & the butler act stood strong until 1967
-The butlers act was teachers who couldn't deny biblical origin -
Fats Waller 1929
-Its jazz music
-Was created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf Waller Brook off Broadway musical comedy & radio show
-Aint misbehaving recording of 1929 were hits in the ASCAP ranking for that year
-His radio show was in every bodies living room. Black,White: He used his radio show to influence the black and white -
Eugenics
-The concept of eugenice was a movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race
-Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin had came up with the earlier ideas of Eugenics in 1912
-Eugenics was carried out by the nazi party during ww2 by adolf hitler during the genocide of the jews -
Duke Ellington
-Duke Ellington was a jazz composer, he called his music" American Music" during his 60 year career he played 20,000 performances
-Ellingtons 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 became 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