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Langston Hughes "The Negro Speak of Rivers"
-It was a Harlem Renaissance Artists, He wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning in life
-It influenced the valve of the African Race during the Renaissance Era
-The crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP) Nation Association of the Advancement of colored people founded in 1919 -
Social Darwinism
-Haves 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
-What social classes owe to each other was a pamphlet by William Graham summers about solving social problems crated in 1883-1903 -
Henry Ford
-Was an engineer early automobile manufacturer
-He introduced the assembly line in 1914, increasing production by moving cars along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned tasks -
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Red Scare
-Xenophobia is the fear of 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 communists
-Palmer raids caused mass arrest. Palmer violated peoples civil rights . Palmer lead groups of people searching for communists
-No communists were discovered lives were raided due to the raids -
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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 if 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 lead 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 Crew laws and racism -
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Transitional Immigration
-Most European Immigrants came to escape war and for better economics opportunities
-In the late 1800's to early 1900's the attitude towards immigrants was load as well ill manned
-Marcus Garvey created the back to Africa Movement
-"Keep America for Americans" was used on a large scale for anti immigrants -
19th Amendent
-On August 18, 1920 the 19th amendment to the U.S constitution granted American women the right to vote, A Right known as Woman's Suffrage
-By 1818 the NWSA(Nation 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 have the right to vote to this day -
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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 loss of "American Culture" -
UNIAE
-Moss 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 mankind believing always in the brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God
-North and frustrations of Struggling to Cope with urban life settle scene for Garvey's back to African Movement
-He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of the Untied States.
He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "Back-to-Africa" -
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National Origins Formula
-Restricted immigration on he basis of existing proportions of the population. It aimed to reduce the overall number of unskilled immigrants and to prevent immigration from changing the ethic distribution of the population. It discriminated against southern and eastern Europeans. the gov't only allowed 2% of the population into the nation. The Asian exclusion act was modified which barred Asians completely out.
-The act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 people between 1920 and 1922 -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920's 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
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First Solo Transatlantic Flight
-Name of the pilot was Charles Lindbergh
-Name of Plane was The Spirit of St Louis
-The start of this flight was Roosevelt Field NY to at La Bourget Airport near Paris
-He changed public opinion on the value of air travel and laid the foundation for the future development of aviation -
Emergency Quota Act
-Restricted immigration into the United States
-The reason for passing the act was that the flood of immigrants in recent years had negative wage effects on native ban Americans
-Following the WWI both Europe & US were suffering economic & social upheaval
-The Russia Revolution & the dissolution of both astro-Hungarian empire * ottoman empire led to greated immigration to the U.S -
Fats Waller
-Influenced the area of music; Jazz Music. Jazz music originated from African American Communities of New Orleans in the U.S during 19th and early 20th century Jazz music allows an individual musician to express themselves on their instruments
-Ain't misbehaving, is a musical revue tribute to the bloom musicians of the Harem Renaissance in the 1920's and 30's
-Influenced both white and African Americans, influencing the Are of creativity cultural awareness and ethic pride -
Eugenies
-Eugenies 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 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 believe that the Aryan people which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world -
Duke Ellington
-He was a jazz composer but he called his American Music
-His fifty year career he played over 20,000 performances in Europe Latin American Middle East and Asia
-Ellington's orchestra began its four year residency at Harlems famous cotton club in 1927 succession at popular radio broadcast from cotton club brought Ellington national fame this name became known after his success of Mood Indigo and Its don't mean a this it it aint got that swing 1932 -
Original Pledge of Allegiance
-Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country
-The phase "To flag of the United States of America was added to the pledge of Allegiance in 1923 so it could be specific of U.S
-The phase "Under god" wasn't added to our pledge of allegiance until 1954 in response to threat of communism -
Quota Act Ending WWII
-Nativism - the policy of protecting to interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those
-The cause of nativism was to protect the native born americans especially of glo-sexan extinction and they are the ones who have superior rights the "foreign-born"
-the trail of sacca and vanzetti and KKK used nationalism in order to gain Public Acceptance -
Father of Naval Aviation - Glenn Curtiss