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Langston Hughes "The negro speaks of rivers"
-It was as Harlem Renaissance artists. He wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning in life
-It influenced the value of the African Race during the Renaissance Gra
-The Crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP) National association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
Social Darwinism 1903
-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 and they were a have not
-concept behind social Darwinism was racism, money and power
-what social classes owe to each other was a pamphlet by William Graham Sumners about solving problems created in 1998 - 1903 -
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transitional Immigration
-Congress strengthened national Immigration law with new legislation in 1903 and 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 american of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
-nativists believed that because the U.S now had fewer unskilled jobs available, fewer immigrants should be laid into the country -
Henry ford
-was an engineer early automobile manufacturers
-He introdiced the assembly line in 1914, increasing production by moving cars along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned tasks paid workers (higher paid) work only 5 day than a 6 day weel -
Father of Naval Aviation - Glen curtiss
-Designed seaplanes, early aircraft, hydoplane (takeoff f/ water and land on the deck of a ship)
-convicted 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 U.S Navy -
19th Amendment
-on August 18, the 19th amendment to the U.S constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women suffrage by 1878 the NWSA (national women suffrage Association) and the collective suffrage movement had gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S congress for a constitutional amendment this has allowed women to move the right to vote to this day -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-the members pledge themselves to do all in their power conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all 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 Africa Movement
-He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of the United States
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "back-to-Africa" -
red scare
-xenophobia is the fear of the foreigners
-many Americans were scared if the communists because the communist 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 -
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National Orgins Formula
-It was an American system of immigration quotes between 1921 -1925
-It restricted for all Asians and south and east Europeans form entering the U.S on the basis of existing proportion of the population
-The U.s were afraid Of Immigrants taking jobs and communists
-it modified the Chinese exclusion act and the immigration act of 1924 -
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Nativism in the 20s and 30s
-Nativism the policy of protecting the interest of the 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 Ku Klux Klan , dead for decades , found new life in 1915. Klan members were hostel to immigrants Catholics Jews and African americans -
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Teapot Domo Scandal
-in 1920s involved national security, big oil companies & corruption of U.S and selling military land
-events led decades before government & U.s navy officials , new global presence
-Albert B. Fall served as secretary of the interior in president Warren G Harding's cabinet
-Scandal left a lasting stain on president reputation -
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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 (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 soviet communism (again more national pledge) President Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the word "under God" to the Pledge -
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Harlem Renaissance
-during WW1 African Americans witnessed a society in Europe that was torment in Americans soldiers returned home, they found racism against African Americans as deeply controlled
- Two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement known as "the great migration" about 2 million African Americans out of the south to the "promised land" of the North east or midwest -
Monkey Trail event 1925
Issue John scopes a biology teacher was arrested for teaching his class about the theory of evolution people involved in the case William Jennings Bryan John Scopes Clarence Darrow ruling Scopes Monkey Trail ends with guilty verdict 1925 john scopes a high school teacher and part time football coach.
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first solo Transattantic fight
-name of the pilot was Charles Lindberg
-Name of the pane 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 land the foundation for the future development of aviation -
Fats walker
-Its Jazz music
-was created specifically as a theme song for the raza/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 lack,white he used his radio show to influence the black and white -
The Roaring 20's
-This time period is marked by optimism , celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of American Culture
-Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday) of 1929 -
Duke ellington
-Duke Ellington was a jazz composer he called his music "american Music" during his 50 year career he played 20,000 performers
-Ellington's orchestra began a four year residency at Harlem cotton club in 1927
-Ellington gained a national profile through his orchestra's appliances 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 audiences -
Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population
-The government under Theodore Roosevelt created a national Heredity commission that was charged to the investigate the gentic 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 which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world. -
Emergency quota act
-restricted immigration to the United States
-cause a high number of immigrants became a major concern
-northern Europeans were allowed in (similar culture)
-americans weren't pleased with increase of political power in immigration groups
-WW1 just happened and wanted to come to America