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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. -
Social Darwinism 1903
-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 sumners about solving problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Red Scare
-xenophobia is the fear of foreigners
-many Americans were scared of the communists because the communist had over thrown 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 communist
-palmer raids caused mass arrest. Palmer violated peoples civil rights.Palmer lead groups of people searching for communists
-no communists were discovered,lives were ruined due to the raids -
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transcontinental immigration
-Treatment of two immigrant groups show the Civil War hasn't killed racism. Three thousand Irish immigrants work mainly on the Union Pacific line going West to East. In 1866, 3,000 Chinese are hired and soon make up 75% of the Central Pacific(West to East) workforce of 10,000 to 12,000 men.
-two thirds of which were Chinese, had built the transcontinental railroad over the Sierras and into the interior plains -
Emergency Quota Act, 1921
-it limited the number of immigrants entering the united states in any one year to 3% of each nationality group in 1910
-from 1919-1921 the number of immigrants had grown almost 600% congress in response to nativst pressure decided to limit immigration from certain countries including japan
-positive thing about it was they're
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National Origin Formula
-The National Origins Formula was an American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population.
-The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. -
Pledge Of Allegiance, August 1892
-It was written by Francis Bellamy
-It was changed since 1892 to 1954 before it was agreed on
-it was changed so immigrants would not confuse loyalites between the birth country and the US
-In 1923 they added "under god" by a joint resolution of congress
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First solo Transatlantic Flight, May 20,1927
-The pilots name is Charles Lindbergh in his plane was called the spirit of St.louis
-He flew from the Roosevelt field in long island,New York,US to Paris france
-100,000 people came to see him after he landed in Paris,France,and when he came back to the united states there was 4,000,000 people who came to see him
-after Charles Landberghs flight the publics opinions changed planes and flying itself, instead of being terrified anymore they wanted to learn to fly themselves -
Emergency Quota Act, May 19,1921
nativism-the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
-the act "proved in the long run the most-turning point in america immigration policy because it added two near features to the american immigration law: numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits
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U.N.I.A
-Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), represent the largest mass movement in African-American history.
-Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League -
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The Harlem Renaissance
-was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s
-The nucleus of the movement included Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Rudolf Fisher
-name given to the time from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s depression. It was known then as the “New Negro Movement”, named after an anthology, titled The New Negro, 5 -
19 amendment
August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
Fats waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. -
charles lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist -
Henry ford
The American navy again enforces control in the Philippines, recently ceded by Spain. In 1899, Filipinos reject American control, so America uses 70,000 troops to crush the rebellion. An early variation on water-boarding is used to torture rebels. This is the least of the American war crimes. The automobile is like nothing on the road today. It is a basic design consisting of a small wooden box with a single seat. It has a steering tiller -
Eugenies
-Eungenies is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the gentic quality of human population
-It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher rates of sexual reproduction for people with desired traits (positive eugenics), or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics), or .. -
monkey trail
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school
-Who would dominate American culture--the modernists or the traditionalists? Journalists were looking for a showdown, and they found one in a Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925. -
teapot dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
The roaring twenties
The period from 1920 to 1929 is commonly known as the Roaring '20s in the United States because of dramatic economic and social growth during the period. However, the economic development of the decade transitioned into one of the darkest eras in U.S. history with the onset of The Great Depression in 1929. -
Father of Naval Aviation
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles.
-Edward Arpee, From Frigates to Flat-tops: The story of the life and achievements of Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, U.S.N. "The Father of Naval Aviation" October 31, 1869-April 4, 1933. (Published and distributed by the author,