American Society

Question 1

What was the death rate in the us

Answer 1

16.5 per 100 - lowest in the world

Question 2

An estimated what fraction of all Jews in russia/eastern Europe emigrated to the US

Answer 2

1/3

Question 3

What percent of male Jews were educated

Answer 3

80%

Question 4

Between 1890 and 1914, how many immigrants arrived

Answer 4

18.4 million

Question 5

Give two examples of immigrant areas

Answer 5

Little Italy - New York
Polish triangle - Chicago

Question 6

How many immigrants returned home

Answer 6

1 in 3

Question 7

What percentage of Italian immigrants were male

Answer 7

80%

Question 8

When did Ellis island open

Answer 8

1892

Question 9

What did Tammany hill offer

Answer 9

Social security in return for votes

Question 10

Give one example of the social impact of progressivism

Answer 10

Concerted campaign against the use of child labour

Question 11

When was the anti saloon league founded? Who was it led by?

Answer 11

Ohio, 1893 , Wayne wheeler

Question 12

When did emmeline Pankhurst give a speech to New York on women’s rights

Answer 12

1913

Question 13

When was the NAACP founded and by who

Answer 13

1909, WEB du bois

Question 14

When was the kkk revived

Answer 14

1915

Question 15

Between 1889 and 1929, how many people were lynched? What percentage of these were African Americans

Answer 15

3724, 85%

Question 16

Lynchings - how many were arrested, how many were sentenced?

Answer 16

Fewer than 50, only 4

Question 17

When was the lunch mob riot in Illinois? How many black people were killed? How many white people were killed?

Answer 17

1908, 2, 4

Question 18

What percentage of black farmers owned their own land by 1910

Answer 18

25%

Question 19

When was the Plessy v Ferguson case? Significance?

Answer 19

1896, ‘separate but equal’