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FLAGSTONE HUGHES
-it was a Harlem renaissance artists, he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots and 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 (NAACP) national association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
SOCIAL DARWINISM
-haves were rich people, or people that head 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 racism, money, and power
-what social classes due to each other was a pamphlet by William graham summer's about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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RED SCARE
-Xenophobia is the fear of foreigners
-Many American were scared of the communist B/c the communist had overthrown Russia in 1917 & 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 arrests.palmer violated people's civil rights Palmer lead groups of people searching for communist
-No communist were discovered, lives were ruined due to the raids -
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
-the Harlem renaissance wa the rise of power of Africans-Americans gaining civil rights
-the Harlem renaissance was also known as the "new negro movement"
-contributing factors leading to the Harlem renaissance were the frat migration of Africans-Americans to northern cities had created new industrial work opportunity for tens of thousands of people over 2 mil African-Americans moved to the north to escape share cropping, tenant farming & deep racism they failed -
TRASITIONAL IMMIGRATION
-after the war they need for unskilled labor went down, the U.S set up a quote system in order to limit immigration
-the immigration who were already here were being discrimination if were forced to be Americanized
-it affected their plans to go back to their country B/c of fear of not being able to return
-new business activity centered in cities which caused many people to move
-new banks throughout the country helped finance economic growth by making loans to business -
HENRY FORD
-when manufacturers first adopted their assembly line to their production process, they often achieve dramatic gains in productivity
-ford was producing 1.6 millions cars a years at a price of less than $300 per car
-the growth in automobile ownership, from 8 to 24 million, greatly affected all aspects of american life
-ford payed his workers 45 an hour so they could afford the model T they build -
U.N.I.A.E
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-the members pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights to their noble race and to respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of god
-he went to Jamaican and was kicked out of the united states
-hr wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement"black-to-Africa" -
19th AMENDMENT
Politicians needed more votes to win, they decide to let women vote
This amendment is also know as SUFFRAGE
Before this right was founded woman didn't have the right to vote
The effects were that to fun votes from, woman were later given more woman's rights -
EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT
Cause: # of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,00-805,000 people after WW1
Terms- established max # of people who could center the untied 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 -
LANGSTON HIGHES
-poet & writer
-best known for his work during the Harlem renaissance
-poetry: activist, novelist, play-writing
-"the crisis" is the official publication of the NAAC
-metro speaks of rivers: claims rivers as" ancients as the world" older than the blood that flows in our veins -
TRAPOT DOME SCANDAL
-Albert B. Fall, a close friend of various oil executives, managed to get reserves transferred from the navy to the interior department
-fall, secretly leased the land to two private oil companies including Henry sinclairs's mammoth oil company
-fall received more than 400,000 in "loans, bonds &cash
-he was found guilty of bribery & became the 1st American to be convicted of a felony
-fall &a Harding were close friends, during this event it hurt president Harding to not be re-elected -
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NATIVISM
-a dislike of foreign's
-the red scare which had anarchist bombings the Sacco & Vanzetti case
-migration of African American from south to northern cities increased racial tensions with KKK
-during red scare anarchist targeted judges, politicaians, law enforcement officials, 2 foreigners sentenced to death for robbery & KKK targeted Africa American during lynching & new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others -
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NATIONAL ORIGINS FORMULA
-restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population
It aimed to reduce the overall number unskilled immigrants & to prevent immigration from changing the ethic distribution of the population
-it discriminated against southern & Eastern Europeans
-the gov. Only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
-the Asian exclusion act was modified which banned Asians completely out
-the act caused immigration to drop by almost 500k people between 1920-1922 -
NATIONAL ORIGINS ACT
purpose: established of a quota system limited immigration from southern Europe also established a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter the us. all Asians were excluded from immigration
-emergency quota that limited immigration from any country to 3% this act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 persons between 1920-1922 -
SCOPES TRIAL-MONKEY TRAIL
-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 -
SCOPES "MONKEY TRAIL"
-high school teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law
- the Butler act. Didn't allow the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical story of creationism
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FIRST SOLO TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
-The pilot name Charles Lindbergh his plane was called the spirit of St. Louis
-he flew the Roosevelt field in Long Island, NY, U.S. to Paris, France
-100,000 people came to see him after he landed in Paris France & when he came back to the U.S. there were 4,000,000 pro who came to see him
-after Charles Lindbergh flight the public's opinion changed on planes& flying itself. Instead of being terrified anymore they want to learn to fly themselves -
FATS WALLER
-originated from African American Communities of new Orleans in the U.S. during the late 19th & 20th century
-"ain't misbehaving" song was written while"loading" in alimony prison & that is why he was not "misbehaving'
-BEING A NEW RADIO PROGRAM CALLED "RHYTHM CLUB"
-two Hollywood films "hooray for love!" & "king of burlesque" -
EUGENICS
eugenics is a set of belief & practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population
- the gov. under Theodore Roosevelt crated a national heredity commission that was charged to investigate the genetic heritage of the country & to "encourage" the increase of families of good blood & "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 -
DUKE ELLINGTON
-duke ellington was influenced to the Harlem renaissance he was in fact a musician jazz also swing music
-Ellington was known for being a American composer,pianist,& bandleader of jazz orchestra
-he influenced both black &rehire people with his music B/c music doesn't have a racist (cotton club) was her Duke played it was a club for American music but only white people were allowed