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social Darwinism
-haves were rich people or people that had power.
- if you were poor or not educated that it means that they dont deserve to have money or power
-concept behind social Darwinism, was racism, money, and power
-what social classes owe to each other was pamphlet by William graham summers about solving social problems created 1883-1903 -
Henry ford
-was an engineer early automobile manufacture
-he introduced the assembly line in 1914 increasing productions by moving car along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned tasks -
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red scare
-xenophobia- irrational fear of foreigners.
-causes- the US was scared of the communist party that was forming in the US when a wave a strikes also hit the US in 1919.
-the Palmer raids were in direct response to the supposed attended bombings which led to the breaking into peoples houses violating their rights headed by attorney general Alexander Mitchell Palmer
-Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italians accused for suppository being communist and were sentenced to death for robbery -
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transitional immigration
-immigrants left Europe to find a better life and the fact that Europe was in rubble from the destruction of WW1.
-economy in Europe wasn't good.
-other immigrants couldn't go back to Europe because it was destroyed.
-population increased in urban areas
-economy ended up in the great depression. -
father of naval aviation - Glenn curtiss
-designed seaplanes, early aircraft carriers,hydroplane.
-convinced the sec. of the navy to buy its 1st aircraft for military use
-constructed the 1st airplane to cross the Atlantic ocean for the US navy. -
UNIAE
-Marcus mosiah Garvey
-the member pledge themselves to do all their power conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of god.
-north and the frustration 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 U.S.
-he wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement " back to Africa" -
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National origins formula
-It was an america system of immigration quotes between 1921- 1965.
-it restricted for all Asians and south and east Europeans from entering the U.S. on the basis of existing proportion of the population.
-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 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 of decades, found new life in 1915. Klan members were hostile to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African -
emergency quota act
-restricted immigration into the US.
-the reason for passing this act was that the food of immigration of recent years had negative wage effects on native ban america
-added two new features to the american immigration law, numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system establishing those limits. -
teapot dome scandal
-Albert b fall, a close friend of various oil executives manged to get reserves transferred from navy to the interior department.
-fall, secretly leased the land of two private oil companies including Henry Sinclair's mammoth oil company.
-fall received more than 400,000 in bans, bonds, plus ca$h.
-he was found guilty of bribery became the 1st american to be convicted of a felony
-fall + Harding were close friends, during this event in hurt president Harding to not be re-elected. -
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Nativism
-a dislike of foreign's
-the red scare which had anarchist bombing the Sacco and Vanzetti case.
-migration of African Americans from south to northern cites increased racial tensions with KKK.
-during red scare anarchist targeted judges, politicians, law enforcement officials, 2 foreigners to death for robbery and KKK targeted African Americans dans lynchings and new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare other -
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The pledge of allegiance
-in 1923 the word " the flag of the U.S. 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 -
monkey trial
-known as " the state of Tennessee vs john Thomas scopes"
-john scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler acts which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school.
-scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow and across the aisle was William Jennings Bryan.
- most people on jury were churchgoing farmers.
-john scopes lost and had to pay a fine of $1 and the butler act stood strong until 1967
-the butler's act was teachers who couldn't deny biblical origin. -
First solo transatlantic flight
-Name of the pilot was Charles Lindberg.
-Name of plane was spirit of st. Louis.
-starts 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 laid the foundation for the future development of aviation. -
Eugenics
-the concept of eugenics was a movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race.
-Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin had to come up with the earlier ideas of eugenics in 1912.
-eugenics was carried out by the Nazi party during WW2 by Adolf Hitler during the genocide of the jews. -
duke Ellington
-he was a jazz composer but he called his music "american music".
-his fifty year career he played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin american, middle east and Asia.
-Ellington orchestra began its four year residency of Harlem famous cotton club in 1927, succession of popular radio broadcast from cotton club.
-Ellington national fame his name became known after the success of "mood indigo" and it don't mean a thing (if it aint got that swing)
-cotton club was for black artist for white -
fats Waller
-its jazz music
- was created specifically as a theme song for the razaf/ Waller/ brook off Broadway musical comedy and radio show.
-aint 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. -
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Harlem renaissance
-during WW1 African-Americans has witnessed a society in Europe that was tolerant in american. Soldiers returned home, they found racism against African-Americans as deeply entrenched
-two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement known as the great migration. about 2 million Africans Americans out of the south to the promised land of the northeast and Midwest. -
19th amendment
-the amendment granted american women the right to vote, a right known as suffrage and the collective suffrage movement had gathered enough influence to lobby the US congress for a constitutional amendment.
-this has allowed women to have the right to vote to this day -
national origins formulas
-american system of immigration quotas between 1921-1965
-it restricted for all Asians and south and east Europeans from entering the US on the basis of existing proportion of the population.
-the us was afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communists
-it modified the Chinese exclusion act and immigration act of 1924