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Langston Hughes "The negro speaks of Rivers"
Its was a Harlem Renaissance Artists ,He wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots& the way hey provide meaning in life
I influenced the value of he African race during the Renaissance Era
The crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP) National Association of the advancement of the colored people funded in 1910 -
Social Darwinism
-Haves were rich people, or people that had power
-If you were poor or not educated then It means that they 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 having solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Transitional Immigration
Congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation in 1903 and 1907
Another change the introduction of pre inspection and more rigorous medical examinations at the point of departure saved time for people passing through some american of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants
Nativist believed that because the U.S. now had fewer unskilled jobs available fewer immigrants should be led into the country -
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Red Scare
Xenophobia-Irrational fear of foreigners
Causes-the U.S. that was sacred of the Communist Party that was farming in the U.S. when a wave strikes also hit the United States in 1919
The Palmer Raids were the direct response to the supposed attended bombings which led to the braking into people's houses violating their rights headed by Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer
Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italians accused for supposedly being Communist and were sentenced to death for robbery -
Expanding world power
In this time period america changes their view from internal expansion and domestic issues to becoming a global force,both economically and military -
Father of Naval Aviation-Glen Curtis
-Designed seaplanes, early aircraft carriers,hydroplane
(takeoff/water and land on the deck of a ship)
Convinced the Sec of the Navy to buy it's 1st aircraft for military use
Constructed the 1st airplane to the cross the Atlantic Ocean for the U.S. Navy -
The 19th Amendment
19th amendment to the U.S.constitution granted american women the rights to vote- a right known as women sufferage
1848 the movement for women's right launched on a national level with a convention it became a center piece of women's right movement.
After the 70 year battle the passage of the 19th amendment passed -
UNIAE
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
- The members plead 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 Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God.
-North and the frustrations of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to Africa Movement
-He went to the Jamaican and was kicked out of the united states
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "Back-to-Africa" -
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The Roaring Twenties
-This Time period is marked by optimism ,celebration,experimentation and social change ,but also fear of external influences and a loss of "America Culture" -
Henry Ford Innovation
When manufacture first adopter their assembly line to their production process ,they often achieved dramatic gains in productivity
Ford was producing 1.6 million cars a year at a price of less then $300 per car
The growth in automobile ownership, From 8 to 24 million, greatly affected all aspects of American life
Ford payed his workers $5.00 an hour, So they could afford the Model T they built -
Emergency Quota Act
Restricted immigration to the united states
Cause a high number of the immigrants became of major concern
Northern Europeans were allowed in (similar culture)
Americans weren't pleased with the increase of political power in immigration groups
WW1 just happened and wanted to come to America -
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Nativism in the 20's and 30's
-Nativism-The policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
-Navitism 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 for decades, found new life in 1915. Klan members were hostile to immigrants,Catholics,Jews and African Americans -
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National Origins Formula
It was an American 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
The U.S. were afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communist
It modified the Chinese exclusion act and the immigration act of 1924 -
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Teapot dome scandal
1920s involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.S. and selling military land
Events led decades before government and U.S. navy officials new global presence
Albert b fall served as secretary of the interior in president warren g hardings cabinet
Scandal left a lasting stain on the president's reputation -
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Pledge of alligance
In 1923 word "the flag of the united states of america" were added.Because who could theoretically be pledging their native land (rather than US) as they spoke so it could be clear as to which they were saluting
In 1954 responding to the threat of the soviet communism (again more national pledge) President Eisenhower encouraged congress to add the word "under god" to the pledge" -
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Harlem Renaissance
During WW1 African American had witnessed a society in Europe that was tolerant in American Soldiers returned home,They found racism against African American as deeply entrenched.Two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement known as the "Great migration" about two million African Americans out of the south to the "Promise Land" of the North East or Midwest-"New negro movement" occurred as a result as a increase in radical american intellectuals and Urban migration into Harlem. -
First solo Transatlantic Flight
-Name of the pilot was Charles Lindberg
-Name of the was the spirit of st.Louis
-Start 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 foundation for the future development of aviation -
Fats Waller
It's Jazz music
was created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf/ Waller/Brook off broad way musical comedy & radio show
Ain't misbehaving recording of 1929 were hits in the ASCAP ranking for that year
His radio show was in every bodies living room black, White he used his radio show to influence the black and white -
Eugenics
-The concept of eugenics was a movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race.
-Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin and come up with the earlier ideas of Eugenics in 1912
-Eugenics was carried out by the Nazi party during World War 2 by Adolf Hitler during the Genocide of the Jews -
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was a jazz composer he called his music
"American music" during his 50 year career he played 20,000 performances
Ellington's orchestra began at four year residency at Harlem cotton club in 1927
Ellington gained a national profile through his orchestra appearances at the cotton club his name became known after, the success of "It don't mean a thing" and "mood indigo"
The cotton club was for African American composers and for white audience -
Monkey Trials
Known as "The state of Tennessee vs John Thomas Scopes"
John scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Acts which made unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school
Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow & across the aisle was William Jennings Bryan
Most people on jury were church going farmers
John Scopes lost & had to pay a fine of $1.00 & the butler act stood strong until 1967
The Butler Act were teachers who couldn't deny biblical origin -
Teapot 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 the two private oil companies including Henry sinclair's mammoth