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Langston Hughes
-It was a Harlem Renaissance artist he wrote the poem to revolve the importance of roots and the way they provide meaning in life
-It influenced the value of the African race during the Renaissance Era
-The crisis is the official magazine of the (NAACP) National Association of the advancement of colored people founded in 1910 -
Social Darwinism
-Have were rich people, or people that had power
-If you were poor or not educated then it mean that they don't 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 summers about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
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Red Scare
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 united states in 1919
The Palmer Raids were the direct response 2 the supposed attended bombings which led 2 the braking into peoples 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 2 death for robbery -
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Transitional Immigration
-WW1 immigration was reduced to trickle by the conflict in Europe
-Nativist feelings against immigrants led congress to restrict immigration from Europe for the 1st time
-Immigrants were over flooding the urban areas
-The economy was drawn down a tad due to little jobs available -
19th Amendment
-At the time US 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
-Unified suffrage laws across the U.S will later move into women's rights -
UNIA Unitade Negro Improvement Association
-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
-The members pledge themselves to do all in their power conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all making believing always in the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God.
-North and frustration of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene for Garvey's back to Africa Movement
-He went to Jamaica and was kicked out of the U.S
-He wanted the people to come back to Liberia which was a movement "Back to Africa" -
Henry Ford
-When manufacturer first adopted their assembly line to their production process they often achieved dramtaci gains in productivity
-Ford was producing 1.6 million cars a year at a price or less than $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 an hours so they could afford the model they built -
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 the U.S have a secure job Groups like the "KKK" strongly supposed the EQA and National origins Formula to reduce the # of foreigners coming to the U.S -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-1920's involved national security big oil companies and corruption of U.S and selling military land
-Events led decades before gov and U.S navy officials new global presence
-Albert B fall served secretary of the interior in president warren G Harding's cabinet
-Scandal left a lasting strain on president reputation -
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Nativism in the 1921-1945
-A dislike of foreigns
-The red scare which had anarchist bombings the saeco and vanzetti case
-Migration of African Americans from south to northern increased racial tensions with kkk
-During Red Scare anarchists targeted judges,politicians,law enforce officials 2 foreigners sentenced to death for robbery and kkk targeted African Americans dans lynchings and new foreigners using the emergency quota act to scare others -
National Origins Act
Purpose-Established of a quota system limited immigration from southern and East Europe also established a quota to determine how many immigrants could enter the U.S all Asians were exduded from immigration
-Emergency Quota Act that limited immigration 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 theWW1Af Am had witnessed a society in Europe that was tolenint in america.Soldiers returned home they found racism against Af Americans as deeply entrenched
-Two decades from 1910 to1930 witnessed the movement known as the "great migration" about 2 millions Af Am out of the south to the"promised land of the north east or Midwest
-The Harlem renaissance or new negro movement occurred as result of an increase in radical American intellectuals and urban migrations into Harlem -
Scopes trial-Monkey trail
-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 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
-Charles Lindbergh and the spirit of st.Louis completed the first non stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927
-The propose plane had been name the "Spirit of the st.Louis" and the pilot was to be "Charles A. Lindbergh"
-Henry Ford made a trimotor Airplane in 1926 transatlantic flights by Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Farhart helped to promote cargo and commercial instruments -
Fats Waller
-Its jazz music
-Was created specifically as a theme song for the Razaf/Waller/Book of Broadway musical comeady and 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 to influence the black and white -
Father of Naval Aviation
-Glenn H. Curtiss designed a seaplane that could take off and land on water
-3 years later he flew his "hydroplane" in San Diego by landing on a naval ship this cause U.S navy to buy its first aircraft
-Curtiss developed a larger "flying boat"
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Duke Ellington
-Jazz music is a type of music of black american origned characterized by improvisation
-The cotton club was in Harlem New York at first it was for a white audience bu then both were allowed where the duke played
-The popular song was :it don't mean anything if it aint got that swing" this song introduced the sing 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 and 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 the"encourage"the increase of families of good blood and discourage the vicious elements in the crossbred 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 communism
why?-congress after a campaign by the nights of Columbus.The pledge was new for patnot oath and public prayer 1923- the "united states of america" was added into the pledge
-The change was because they wanted to make sure they were pledging to their country and not to anyone else