Week 4-Transition to Modern America

By Miya67
  • 1929 BCE

    Fats Walker

    -Its Jazz Music
    -Was Created specifically as a them song for the Razaf /Walker/Brook off Broadway Musical Comedy & Radio show anit 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 white
  • Period: 1924 BCE to 1929 BCE

    Harlem Renaissance

    -During Af-Am had witnessed a society in Europe that was talent in america soldiers returned home , they found racism against Africa -Am as deeply entered .
    -Two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement the amount know as the great migration about 2 millions Africa Americans at of the south to the promised land of the northeast or Midwest.
    -The Human Renaissance or new negro Movement occurred as a results of an increase in radical American Intellectuals and urban Migration into Harlem.
  • Period: 1921 BCE to 1965 BCE

    National Signs Formula

    -It established how many immigrants could enter the U.S restricted by origin discriminated people outside Western Europe
    -The govnt allowed 2% of the population into the nation
    -The Asian exclusion act was modified which barred Asians Complete out
  • Social Darwinism

    -Haves were rich 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 racist,money,and power
    -What social classes due to each other was a pamphlet by William Graham Sumners about solving social problems created in 1883-1903
  • stock Market Crash

    "This time period is marketed by optimism, Celebration , experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of "American Cluture"
  • 19th Amendment

    -At the time U.S. was founded ,its females citizens did not share all the time rights as men .
    -This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920
    -Unified Suffrage laws across the U.S
  • Henry Ford

    -When manufactures first adopted their assembly line to their production process,They often achieve dramatic gains in productivity
    -Ford was producing 1.6 millions cars a year at a price of less than $300 per car
    -The growth in automobile ownership, from 8 to 24 million, Greaty affected all aspects of Americans life.
    -Ford Payed his workers $ 5 a hour so they could afford the Model T they built.
  • Nativism in the 1920s & 30's

    -A Dislike of foreigners -The Red scare which had anarchist bombings the Sacco & Vanzetti case .
    -Migration of African Americans from south to northern cities increased racial tensions with KKK
    -During red scare anarchist targeted judges,politicians ,Law enforcement officials, 2 foreigners sentenced to death for robberies
    KKK Targeted African Americans doing lynchings and foreigners using the emergency quota Act to scare others
  • Langston Hughes "The negro speaks of rivers

    • It was Harlem Renaissance Artists ,He wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots and way they provide meaning in life -It influenced the value of the African race during the renaissance gra. -The crisis is the official magazine (NAACP) National association of the advancedment of colored people founded in 1910
  • UNIAE

    -Marcus Mosiah Ganey
    -The members plebe themselves to do all in 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 Garvey's back to american movement
    -He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of united states
    -He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement Back-To-Africa
  • Emergency Quota Act

    Cause:# of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,100-805,00 people after WW1 Terms -Established max # of people could enter the united States. "Cut European immigration " How its positive :Allows immigrants that are already living in the U.S have a secure job. Groups like the "KKK Strongly supported the EQA and National Origins Formula to reduce the # of formula coming to the U.S
  • National Origins Formula

    -It established how many immigrants could enter the U.S restricted by origin discriminated people outside Western Europe
    -The gov't only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
    -The Asian exclusive act was modified which barred Asians completely out.
  • Scopes Trial -Monkey Trial

    As an american legal case in 1925 in which a teacher from Tennessee violated the Butler Act , which taught about evolution
    -This Made Unlawful to teach human evolution in any -state -Funded school
    --William Jennings was a prosecutor, The attorney who depended scopes was convicted for teaching evolution, his $1.00 fine was late set aside.
    -The town first made the fine to collect money due to the great depression
  • Eugenics

    -Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at proving the genetic quality of the human population.
    -The government under Theodore Roosevelt created a National Heredity commission that was charged to investigate the genetic heritage of the country and to "encourage" The increase of families of good blood and discourage the vicious elements in the cross bred American Civilization.
    -Hitler believed that the Aryan People came from Eugenics were designated to rule the world .
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Nicknamed Slim , Lucky Lindy, and the lone Eagle, was an american aviator ,author ,inventor , and the social activist.
  • Father of Naval Aviation

    Glenn H. Curtis s designed a sea plane that could take off and land on water .
    -3 Years later he flew his "Hydroplane" in San Diego Bay landing on a naval ship, this caused U.S Navy to bay its first aircraft.
    -Curtis s Developed a larger "Flyer Boat"
    -Then He Helped U.S Helped U.S navy create airlift Carriers .
  • Pledge Of Allegiance

    what was changed?
    -In 1954 "Under God" was added to the pledge, in response to the treat of communism
    why was it changed?
    -Congress after a campaign by the knights of Columbus,The Pledge was now both patriotic oath and a public prayer.
    -The "United States of America" Was added into the Pledge.
    -The change was because they wanted to make sure they were pledging to their country and not anyone else's
  • Red Scare

    Xenophobia Irrational Fear of foreigners
    causes the U.S was scared of the Communist party that was forming in the us when a wave a strikes also hit the united states in 1919
    -The palmier Raids were the diet responses to the suppose attended