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langston huges "the negro speaks of rivers"
-it was a harlem renaissance artists, he wrote the poem to revolve he 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 of the naacp national association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
henry ford innovations
-installed amechanized assembly line to make production cheaper and faster.
-ford company assembly 18.35/hr
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red scare
xenophobia- irrational fear of foreigners
cause-the u.s was scared of the community party that was forming in the u.s when a wave a strikes also hit the united states in 1919
-the power raids were the direct responce to the supposed attempted bombing which led to the branking into peoples houses violating their rights headed by attorney general alexander mithell palmer
-sacco and vanzetti were both italians accused for supposdly being communist and were sentenced to death for robbery -
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transitional immigration
-congress strenghthened national imigration law with new legislation in 1903 and 1907
-another change , the introduction of pre-inspectention and more-regorous medical examinations at the same american of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants.
-nativists belived that because the u.s. now had fewer unskilled jobs available, fewer imigrants should be led into the country. -
19th amendment
-at the time u.s. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men
-this amendment gave the women the right to vote in 1920
-unfied suffiage laws across the u.s. will later move into womens rights.
(suffriage-the right to vote in political elections) -
uniae
-marcus mosiah gavey
-the members pledge themselves to do all in their power to conserv e the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all mankind beliving always in the brotherhood of man and the fat fatherhood of god.
-north and the frustration of struggling to cope with urban life set the sence for garvey's back to africa movement
-he went to jamaican and was kicked out of the united states
-he wanted the people to come back to liberia whichwas a movement "back-to-africa -
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national origins formula
-it established how many immigrants could enter the u.s restricted by origin discriminated people outside western europe
-the govn't only allowed 2% of the population into the nation
-the asian exclusion atwas modified which barred asians completery out! -
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teapot dome scandal
-1920's involved national security big oil companies and corruption of u.s and selling millitary land.
-events led decades before gov and u.s navyofficials,new global precense.
-albert b . fall served secretaryof the interiorinpresident warren g harding's cabinet .
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emergency quota act
cause- of immigrants had grown almost 600% ranging 141,000-805,000 people after ww1
term- established max # of people who could enter the united states. "cut european immigration"
how its positive- allows immigrants that are already living in u.s have a sure jobs. groups like the "kkk" strongly supponed the eqa & national origins formula to reduce the # of foreigners coming to the u.s. -
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nativism
- a dislike of foreigns -the red scare which had anarchist bombings the sacco & vanzettie case. -migration of africa americans from south northern cities increased racial tensions with kkk -during red scare anarchist targetted judge, politicans, law enforement difficials, 2 foreigners seatread to death for robery & kkk target africans americans dangs lynchings and new foreiners using the emergency quota act to scare others
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national origins acts
purpose- established of a quota system limited immigration from southern & eastern europe also established a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter the u.s all asians were exduded from imigrantion
-emergency quota act that limited immigraion from any country to 3% this act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 persons between 1920-1922 -
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harlem renaissance
-during ww1 african-american had witnessed a society europe that was tolerant in americans as deeply enterched.
-two decades from 1910 to 1930 witnessed the movement "known as the great migration". about 2 millions africans americans out of the south to the "punished bund" of the north east or midwest.
-the hanem renaissance or"new negro movement occured as a result of an increase in radical american intellectuals and urban migration into harlem. -
scopes trial - monkey trial
-as an american legal case in 1925 in which a teacher from tennesse violated the outler act, which thaught about evolution.
-this made in unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
-william jennings was the proseator , the attoney who deffended scopes was covicted for teaching evolution his $1.00 fine was set aside.
-the town first made the fine to collect money due to the great deppresion -
fats waller
-its jazz music
-was created especifically as a them song for the razaf/waller/book off broadway music comeady & radio show.
-aint missbehaving recording of 1929 were hits in the ascap renking 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 -
fater of naval aviation
-glenn h. curtiss designed a seaplane that could take off and land on water.
-3yrs later he flew his "hydroeroplane" in san diego by landing on a naval ship this caused u.s navy to buy its first aircraft.
-curtiss developed a large "flying boat"
-then hr helped u.s navy created air craft carries. -
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transitional immigration
-ww1 immigration was reduced to trickle by the conflict in europe (ww1)
-nativist feelings against immigrants led congress to restrict immigration from europe for the 1# time
-immigrants were over flooding the urban areas
-the economy was drawn down a tad due to little job's available. -
duke ellington
-the cotton club was is harlem newpork at first it was for a white audience but hten both were allowed where the dur peyed
-he popular song was "it dont mean anything if you ain't got that swing" this song introduced the swing eran
-the influence was music was not segriated by race but heard from all races over the radio. -
eugenics
-eugenics is a set of beliefs and practies that aimsat improving the genetic quality of the human population.
-the government under theodore roosevlt created a national heredity commissiation that was changed to investigate the genetic heritage of the country and to "encourage" the increase of families of good blood and (discourage)the vicios elemets in the cross-bred americans civilitation.
-hitler believed that the aryan poeple which came from eugenics were destined to rule the world -
pledge of alliegience
-in 1954 "under god" was added to the pledge , in a response to the threat of communism.
why it was changed
-congress afther a campaign by knights of columbus, the pledge was now both patriotic oath and a public prayer -
social darwinism
-haves were rich people , or people that had power
-if you were poor or not educated then it means that they dont deserve to have money or power and they were a have not
-concept behind social darwinism was rausim, money , and power
-what social classes owe to each others was a pamphlet by william gnaham summers about solving social problems created in 1883-1903