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Social Darwinism
-Haves were people who were rich or had power.
-If you were poor or uneducated 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 social problems created in 1883-1903. -
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Stock Market Crash
"This time period is marketed by optimism, celebrations, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and a loss of "American Culture". -
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Red Scare
Xenophobia irrational fear of foreigners
Caused- The US was scared of the communist party that was forming the US when a wave strikes also hits the US in 1919.
-The popular raids were the direct response to the supposed attendant bombings which lead to the breaking into peoples houses violating their rights headed by attorney general Alexander Mitchell Palmer.
-Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italians accused for being communist and were sentenced to death for robbery. -
19th Amendment
-At the time U.S was founded, its female citizens didn't share all the same rights as men.
-This Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920
-Unified Suffrage laws across the US. -
UNIAF
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members pledged themselves to do all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race and respect the rights of all mankind believing always in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of god.
-North and the frustration of struggling to cope w/ urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to Africa moment.
-He went to Jamaica and was kicked out of US
-He wanted the people to come back to liberia which was a movement "Back-To-Africa". -
Henry Ford
-When manufactures first adopted their assembly line to their production process, they often achieved dramatic gains in productivity.
-Ford was producing 1.6 minion cars a year at a price of less than $300 per car The growth in automobile ownership, from 8 to 24 million, greatly affected all aspects of americans.
-Ford payed his workers $5 an hour, (highest pay) to afford the model T they built. -
Emergency Quota Act
-# of immigrants had grown almost 600%
ranging 141,000-805 people after ww1
-established max # of people who could enter the US "Cut European immigration"
-allows immigrants that are already living in US have a secure job.
Group like the "KKK" strongly supponed the EQU & National Origins formula to reduce the # of foreigners coming to the US. -
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National Origins Formula
-It established how many immigrants could enter the US restricted by Origin discriminated people outside western Europe.
-The gov. only allowed 2% of the population into the nation.
-The Asian's exclusion act was modified which barred Asians completely OUT! -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920's involved national security big oil companies and corruption of US and selling military land.
-Events led decades before gov. and US navy officials, new global presence.
-Albert B. fall served secretary of the interior in president Warren G. Harding's cabinet.
-Scandal left a lasting stain on president rep. -
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Nativism
-A dislike of foreigners
-The Red Scare which had anarchist bombing The Sacco & Vanzetti case
-Migration of African Americans from southern and northern cities increased racial tension with "KKK"
-During Red Scare anarchist targeted judges, politicians, law enforcement, officials, 2 foreigners sentenced to death for robbery & KKK targeted African Americans doing lynching and new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others. -
National Origin Act
P-Established of a quota system limited immigration from southern & Eastern Europe also established a quota to establish a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter the US all Asians were excluded from immigration.
-Emergency quota act that limited immigration from any country to 3% this act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 persons b/w 1920-1022. -
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Harlem Renaissance
During WW1 African Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was tolerant in american soldiers returned home, they found racism against African Americans as deeply entrenched.
2 decades from 1910-1930 witnessed the movement known as "The Great Migration." About 2 mill of African Americans out of the south to the "Promised Land" of the north east or Midwest.
The Harlem Renaissance or "New Negro Movement" as a result of an + in racial American intellectuals & urban migration in Harlem. -
Scopes trial-Monkey trial
-As an american legal case in 1925 in which a teacher from Tennessee violated the Butler act, which taught about evolution.
-This made in unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school.
-William Jennings was the prosecutor, the attorney who defended scopes was convicted for teaching of evolution his $1.00 fine was late set aside.
-The town first made the fine to collect money due to the great depression -
"Charles Lindbergh/Solo Transatlantic Flight"
-Charles Lindbergh & The spirit of St. Louis completed the first non stop flight, from New York to Paris in 1927.
-The Propose plane had been named the "Spirit of St. Louis" & the pilot was to be "Charles A. Lindbergh".
-Transatlantic flights by Charles Lindbergh helped to promote cargo & Commercial Instruments. -
Father of Naval Aviation
-Glenn H. Curtiss Designed a seaplane that could take off and land on water.
-3 yrs later he flew his "hydroeroplane" plane in San Diego landin on a US navy Naval Ship. This caused the US Navy to buy its first aircraft.
-Curtiss developed a larger "flying boat".
-Then he helped US Navy create air craft carriers. -
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Transitional Immigration
-WW1 immigration was reduced to a trickle by the conflict n europe.(WW!)
-Natavist feeling against immigrants led congress to restrict immigration from europe for the 1st time.
-Immigrants were over flooding the urban areas.
-Economy was drawn down due to little jobs available. -
Duke Ellington
-Jazz Music is a type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation
-The cotton club was in Harlem New York at first it was for a white audience but then both were allowed, where the Duke played.
-The popular song was "It Don't Mean Anything If You Ain't Got That Swing" this song introduced the swing era.
-The influence was music was not segregated by race but heard from all races over the radio. -
Eugenics
-Eugenics is a set of beliefs & 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 believed that the Aryan people which came from Eugenics were destined to rule the world. -
Pledge Of Allegiance
-In 1954 "Under God" was added to the pledge, in a response to the threat of communist.
Why -Congress after a campaign by the lengths of Columbus, The Pledge was now both Patriotic Oath and a public prayer. -
Fats Wallter
-Its Jazz music
-Was created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf/Waller/Brook off musical comedy & radio show.
-Ain't misbehaving recording of 1929 were hits in the ASCAP ranking for that year
-His radio show was every bodes living room black,white, he used his radio show to influenced the black and white.