America KQ2

Question 1

When was the Study Period?

Answer 1

1910-1929

Question 2

What didn’t fundamentalists like?

Answer 2

cinema and jazz
the way women dress and behave
laws passed to prohibit short swimming costumes and gambling on Sunday

Question 3

What states were in the ‘Bible Belt’

Answer 3

Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky and usually North Carolina

Question 4

What year was the ‘Butler Act’ passed?

Answer 4

1925

Question 5

What was the ‘Butler Act’?

Answer 5

The law prohibiting the teaching of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Question 6

Why was John Scopes arrested?

Answer 6

He taught the Theory of Evolution and was tried in ‘The Monkey Trial’

Question 7

What happened to John Scopes?

Answer 7

He was fined $100 but it meant that the butler Act was abandoned

Question 8

How many black people were living in the USA in 1900?

Answer 8

12 million

Question 9

What percentage of black people were living in the South in 1900?

Answer 9

75%

Question 10

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 10

Laws to show segregation in the South

Question 11

Why did relationships between black and white people deteriorate?

Answer 11

Black people started to move to the North and West as the start of the Industrial Development had started.

Question 12

How many members were in the KKK in 1921?

Answer 12

100 000

Question 13

How many members were in the KKK in 1925?

Answer 13

5 000 000

Question 14

Who did the KKK discriminate against?

Answer 14

Black people
Roman Catholics
Jews
Mexicans

Question 15

What did the KKK do?

Answer 15

Lynch people
Flog people
Run people out-of-town
Tar and Feather people

Question 16

Why was it difficult to convict KKK members?

Answer 16

They were often powerful and many judges and law officials were in the KKK

Question 17

When did membership to the KKK drop?

Answer 17

By 1928, the membership had dropped to a few hundred-thousand

Question 18

What did Booker t. Washington do?

Answer 18

By 1900, Booker T. Washington, a former slave, opened the Tuskegee Institute to provide education and training for black people

Question 19

What did William Du Bois do?

Answer 19

In 1909, the NAACP was established which focused on opposing racism and segregation through legislation and non-violent activities

Question 20

How were Native Americans discriminated against in the 1900s?

Answer 20

They were forced to assimilate into American society.
Sent children to Christian boarding schools.
Since the 1850’s they were forced to live in reservations.
The Indian Citizenship Act 1924.
1920’s Eugenics Project.
1928 Meriam Report.