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Langston Hughes
- It was a Harlem Renaissance Artists. He wrote this 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
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
Concept behind Social Darwinism was racism, money, and power
"What social classes owe to each other" was a pamphlet by William Graha sumners about solving social problems created in 1883-1903 -
Henry Ford Innovation
- Was an engineer early automobile manufacture
- He introduced the assembly line in 1914 increasing production by moving cae along a conveyor belt while workers comleted their assigned tasks -
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Red Scare
- Xenophobia is the fear of foreigners
- Many Americans were scared of the communists because the communist had overthrown Russia in 1917 and murdered them.
- A series of bomb explosions in 1919 ,including an attempt on Mitchel Palmer,lead to a campaign against the communists.
- Palmer raids causes mass arrests. Palmer violated people's civil rights.Palmer lead groups of people searching for communists.
- No communists were discovered ,lives were ruined due to the raids. -
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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 "American Culture" -
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Transitional Immigration
- After the war the need for unskilled labor went down, the U.S. set up a quote system in order to limit immigration
- The immigrants who were already in the U.S were being discriminated & were forced to be americanized
- It affected their plans to go back to their country because of the fear of not being able to return
- New business activity centered in cities which caused many people to move
- New bank throughout the country helped finance economic growth by making loans to business's -
Father of Naval Aviation - Glenn curtiss
- Designed seaplanes, early aircraft carriers, hydroplane (Takeoff from 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 cross the Atlantic Ocean for the US 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 womens right launched on a national level with a convention it became a center piece of womens right movement. after a 70 year old battle the passage of 19th amendment -
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 frustration of struggling to cope with urban life set the scene 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 which was a movement "back to Africa" -
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National Origins Formula
- It was an American system of immigration quotes between 1921-1965
- It restricted all Asians and south and east Europeans from entering the US on the bars of existing proportion of the population
- The US was afraid of immigrants taking jobs and communists.
- It modified the Chinese exclusion act and the Immigration act of 1924. -
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Nativism in the 20s and 30s
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 decaded, found new life in 1915, Klan members were hostile to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans -
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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 officicals new global precense
- Albert b fall served as secretary of the interior in president warren g hardings cabinet
- Scandal left a lasting stain on the presidents reputation -
Emergency Quota Act
-Restricted immigration into the U.S
-The reason for passing this act was that the food of immigrants of recent years had negative wage effects on native ban America
-Added two new features to the American immigration law, numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system establishing those limits -
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Pledge of Allegiance
In 1923 the 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 2 million african americans out of the south to the "Promise Land" of the North East or Midwest -" New negro movement" occured as a result as a increase in radical american intellectuals and Urban migration into harlem -
Monkey Trial
- Known as "The state of Tennessee vs John Thomas Scopes"
- John scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Acts which made it unlawful to team human evolution in any state funded school
- Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow and across the aisle was William Jennings Bryan.
- Most people on Jury were Church going farmers.
- John Scopes lost and had to pay a fine of $100 and the butler act stood strong
- The butler's Act was teachers who could't deny biblical origin. -
First solo transatlantic flight
Name of the pilot was Charles Lindberg
Name of the 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
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 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 had come up with the earlier ideas of Eugenics in 1912
- Eugenics was carried out by the Nazi Party during ww2 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 during his career
- Ellington's orchestra began a four year residency at Harlem's Cotton Club in 1927.
- Ellington gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem, 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 audiences.