1900 American Society

Question 1

What was the Bill of Rights?

Answer 1

Guarantees Americans a set of freedoms and rights, including the right to vote, freedom of belief, information and law

Question 2

By 1919, what were many states refusing to recognise?

Answer 2

The vote of women, African Americans and American Indians

Question 3

By the early 1900s, how many different nationalities were living in USA?

Answer 3

Over 100

Question 4

Population of USA by 1900

Answer 4

110 million

Question 5

What had immigration made the USA?

Answer 5

A ‘melting pot’ of different religions, races and cultures

Question 6

Who were the first Americans?

Answer 6

American Indians/ Red Indians

Question 7

What did the American Indians live in across America for thousands of years?

Answer 7

Tribes

Question 8

Who took much of the Indians land?

Answer 8

White Europeans

Question 9

What were the Indians forced to live in?

Answer 9

Reservations

Question 10

How many Indians were there when the Europeans first arrived, how many by 1900?

Answer 10

5 million

Down to 250,000

Question 11

When did a wave of new immigrants flood into America?

Answer 11

From 1850 onwards

Question 12

Where were the immigrants coming from?

Answer 12

Mainly eastern and southern Europe

Ireland, China, Japan and South America

Question 13

Why did the immigrants crowd into the large industrial towns and cities?

Answer 13

To look for work- many were poor and illiterate

Question 14

What group of Americans saw new immigration from 1850 as a threat to their way of life?

Answer 14

White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPS)

Question 15

When did the white settlers arrive from Europe?

Answer 15

1600s

Question 16

Where did the white Europeans particularly come from?

Answer 16

Britain
Netherlands
Germany

Question 17

What did the largest group of white settlers (the British) begin to regard the USA as?

Answer 17

Part of the British Empire

Question 18

By 1900s, what group had become the most powerful group in America?

Answer 18

White English speakers

Question 19

% of American people owned what % of land?

Answer 19

10% of Americans owned 90% of wealth

Question 20

What group owned 90% of the wealth?

Answer 20

Descendants of the white immigrants with high status and influence
Commonly known as WASPs

Question 21

What group of people were taken to work as slaves in South America?

Answer 21

Africans

Question 22

Between what years were Africans taken as slaves?

Answer 22

1600 and 1800

Question 23

When did slavery end?

Answer 23

1865

Question 24

By 1920, how many African Americans were there?

Answer 24

10 million, mostly in southern states

Question 25

Why did African Americans have limited freedom?

Answer 25

No right to vote

Denied access to good jobs, decent housing and proper education

Question 26

In the early 1920s, was who were among the poorest in the country?

Answer 26

African Americans