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Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" 1902
-It was a Harlem Renaissance Artists, he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots & the way they provide meaning on 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. -
Social Darwinism 1903
-Haves were rich people, or people that had power.
--If you were poor or not educated then it means that they dont desereve 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 Summers about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Transitional Immigration 1903-1907
-Congress strengthened national immigration law with new legislation in 1903-1907.
-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 parts of entry and reduced the number of excluded immigrants.
-Nativists believed that because the U.S now had fewer unskilled jobs available, fewer immigrants should be led into the country. -
Henry Ford Innovation 1905
-When Henry Ford first adapted the assembly line to the production they often achieved dramatic gains & consumers benefited from lower prices.
-Skill workers were no longer needed in complex manufacturing operations like car assembly.
-Model T was introduced in 1905 & introduced the assembly line in 1914.
-Assembly line was afficient he was able to double wages overnight while slashing prices.
-Ford paid employes $5 so they could afford the cars they were building. -
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Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1920
-Xenophobia is the intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
-The end of WW1 brought new fears to many Americans of communist,ararchists,and immigrants.
-When a wave strikes also hit the U.S in 1919, many Americans feared this was the start of their own communist evolution.
-Attorney General A.Michell Palmer was the leader of the "Palmer Raids" it was to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists especially anarchists from the U.S. -
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Red Scare 1917-1920
-Xenophobia-Irrational fear of foreigners.
Causes-The U.S was scared of the communist party that was forming in the U.S when a wave a strikes also hit the U.S in 1919.
-The Palmer Raids were the direct responce to the supposed attended bombings which to the breaking into peoples houses violating their rights headed by Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer.
-Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italians accused for supposidly being communist and were sentenced to death for robbery. -
19th Amendment 1920
-19th Amendment to the U.S constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman sufferage.
-1848 the movement for women's right launched on a national level with a convention it became a center peace of women's right movement after 70 year battle the passage of the 19th amendment passed. -
UNIAE 1920
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members plede themselves to do all in their power conserve 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 Garveys back to Africa movement.
-He went to Jamaican and was kicked out of 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 1920-1929
-This Time period is marked by optimism,celebration,experimentation and social change,but also fear of external influences and a loss of "American Culture" -
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Nativism in the 20s and 30s (1921-1939)
-Nativism-the policy of protecting the interests 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 for decades,found new life in 1915.Klan members were hostie to immigrants,catholics,Jews and African Americans. -
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National Origins Formula 1921-1965
-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 exsisting proportion of the population.
-The U.s were afraid of immigrants talking jobs and communists.
-It modified the chinese exclusion Act and the Immigration act of 1924. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal 1921-1922
-1920's involved national security, big oil companies & corruption of U.S and selling millitary land.
-Events led decades before government & U.S navy officials, new global precense.
-Albert B.fall served as secretary of the interior in president Warren G. Hardings.
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Emergency Quota Act 1921
-Restricted immigration to the U.S.
-Cause a high number of immigrants became a major concern.
-Northern Europeans were allowed in [similar culture].
-Americans weren't pleased with increase of political power in immigration groups WW1 just happened and wanted to come to America. -
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Nativism in the 1921-1945
-A dislike of foreign's.
-The red scare which had anarchist bombings The Sacco & Vanazetti Case,
-Migration of African Americans from South to Northern cities increased racial tensions with KKK.
-During Red Scare anarchist targetted judges,politicians,law enforcement officials,2 foreiners seuteuced to death for robbery & KKK targetted African Americans dans lynchings and new foreiners using the emergency quota act to scare others. -
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The Pledge Of Alegance 1923-1954
-In 1923 the word "The Flag Of The United States Of America" were added because who could theoratically 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 of 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 1924-1929
During WW1 African Americans had witnessed a society in Europe that was for 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 2 million African Americans out of the South to the Punished Land of the North East or Midwest
The Harlem Renaissance or Negro Movement occurred as a result of an increase in radical American intellectuals and when Migration into Harlem -
Monkey Trail 1925
-Known as "The State Of Tennesse vs John Thomas Scopes"
-John Scopes was accused of violating Tennesse'ss better acts when made unharmful to teach human evolution in any state funded school.
-Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow & across the asle was William Jennings Bryan.
-Most People on jury were churchgoing farmers.
-John Scopes lost & had to pay a fine of $100 & the butler act stood strong until1967.
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First Solo Transattantic Flight 1927
-Name of the pilot was Charles Lindberg.
-Name of plane 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 the foundation for the future development of aviation. -
Fats Waller 1929
-Its Jazz Music.
-Was created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf/Waller/Brook off Broadway musical comedy & radio show.
-Aint 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 was to influence the black and the white. -
Eugenics 1932
-The concept of eugenics was a movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race.
-Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin had came up with the earlier ideas of Eugenics in 1912.
-Eugenics was carried out by the nazi party during WW2 by Adolf hitler during the genociole of the Jews. -
Duke Ellington 1932
-Duke Ellington was a Jazz composer, he called his music "American Music" during his 50 year career he played 20,000 performances.
-Ellington's orchesta began a four year residency at harlems cotton club in 1927.
-Ellington gained a maximal profile through his orchestra's appearances at the cotton club, his name because 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 quinces.