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father of the naval aviation
glenn curt is vias the 1st to drive plane with an engine in 1902.
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social darwinism
haves were rich people or people that had power
if you were poor or not educated then itmeans that they dont deserve to have money or power & they were a have not
concept behind social darwinism was racism money power -
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 leads to a campaign against the communists. -
duke ellington
duke ellington was influenced to the harlem renaissance he was in fact a musician jazz music also swing muisc ellington was known for being a american composer pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestra -
19th admendment
women around the country had been fighting for the right to vote for over 300 years.
woman started voting in governmental elections and becoming involved in the political system. -
pledge of allegiance
it was written by Francis Bellamy
;it was changed since 1892-1954before they agreed on it
it was change so immigrants would not confuse loyalties between their birth country & the U.S -
u.n.i.a.
marcus mosiah garvey the mambers pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the fatherhood of god north and the frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for garvey back to african movement. -
henry ford
when manufacturer first` adopted their assembly line to their production process they often achieved dramatic ganis in productivty ford was producing 1.6 million cars years at a price of less than $300 per car the growth in authomotive ownership from 8 to 24 million greatly affected all aspects of american life frod payed his workers $5 an hour so they could afford the model t they built -
harlem renaissance
the harlem renaissance was the rice of power of african americans gaining civil rights. the harlem renassance was also known as the new negro movement contributing factors leading to the harlem renaissance were the great migration of african americans to northern cities which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people. -
emergency quota act
it limited the number of immigrants entering the U.S. in any one year to 3% of each nationality group in 1910
*from 1919-1921 then number of immigrants had grown almost 600% congress in response to natives pressure decided to limit immigration from certain countries japan. -
Teapot Dome scandal Scandal
albert b. fall a class friends of verious oil executives managed to get reserves transferned from the navy to the interior department.
fall secretly leased the land to two private including private oil companies including henry sinclair mammoth oil campany. -
langston hughes
poet and writer best known for his work during the harlem renaissance.poetry activist,novelist,play writing the crisis is the official publication of the naacp national association for the advancement of colored people negro speaks of rivers claims rivers as ancient as the world older than the blood that flows in our veins. -
scopes "monkey trail"
high school teacher accused of teaching evolvton in violation of a tennesse state law.
the butler act did not allow the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical story of creationism. -
first solo transatlantic flight
The Pliot name Charles Lindbergh his plane was called the spirit of
St.Louis.
He flew he Roosevelt Field in long island ,NY, U.S. to Paris, france.
1000,000 people came to see him after he landed in Paris, France & when he came back to the U.S. there were 4,000,000 people who came to see him -
National origins formula
restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population .
*it aimed to reduce the averali number of unskilled immigranted,and to prevent immigration from changing the ethic distribution of the population.it discriminated against southern and castern european -
fats waller
originated from african american communties of new orleans in the U.S during the late 19th and 20th century
*aint misbehaving song was written while lodging in alimony prison and that is why he was not miss behaving. -
transitional immigration
after the war the need for unskilled labor went down the u.s set up a quote system in order to limit immigration the immigrants who were already here were being discriminated and were fored to be americanized it affected their plans to go back to their country because 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 fiance growth by making loans to business -
nativism in the 1912-1945
a dislike of foreign's
the red scare which had anarchist bombings .
the sacco & vanzeth case.
migration of african americans from south to nathern cities
increased racial tensions with kkk. -
eugenics
eugenics is a set of beliefs and practies that aims at improving genetic quality of the human population the government under theodore roosevelt created a national herd by commission that was charged to investigate the genetic heritage of the country and to encourage the increase of families