free at last

Question 1

one reason why Americans were against immigration

Answer 1

unemployment they feared new immigrants would steal their jobs and that they would force the wages down

Question 2

another reason why Americans were against immigration

Answer 2

uneducated/unskilled new immigrants were uneducated and didn’t have much skills and didn’t speak other languages so they didn’t have much to add to the american way of life

Question 3

another reason why immigrants were against immigration

Answer 3

unwilling to mix they would only settle among their own countries and wouldn’t mix with other countries

Question 4

another reason why americans were against immigration

Answer 4

house shortage new immigrants were created pressure and had already scarce housing

Question 5

another reason why americans were against immigration

Answer 5

social problems because the poorest areas were inhabited by new immigrants all the problems were blamed on them

Question 6

another reason why americans were against immigration

Answer 6

inferiority the WASP’s feared that immigrants from south and east europe would want to live life in america their way with their own religious beliefs

Question 7

one experience of black americans during ww2

Answer 7

tuskegee airmen was the group to be trained by the us air force and they defended us bombers from german fighter planes

Question 8

another experience of black americans during ww2

Answer 8

more than half a million black american soldiers in europe on d day and included 1,700 troops

Question 9

another experience of black americans during ww2

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double v campaign it was launched by civil rights groups to campaign for victory at home and military victory

Question 10

another experience of black americans during ww2

Answer 10

executive order 8802 there would be no discrimination and they would investigate any claims of unfair discrimination

Question 11

one experience of black americans in the northern cities

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near the end of the nineteenth century black Americans started to move their homes from the south to the north for better wages and life away from segregation

Question 12

another experience of black Americans in the northern cuties

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northern cities were known as promised land for black americans and a land of milk and honey

Question 13

another experience of black americans in northern cities

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they wanted to escape sharecropping and believed that wages were better

Question 14

another experience of black americans in northern cities

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migration continued in the 1920’s and 1930’s but the 1940’s saw the largest black migration as they needed as many workers they could get

Question 15

another experience of black Americans in the northern cities

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nearly 1 million black Americans moved to the north but in 1950’s a third of all black americans lived outside the south over 6 million black americans lived in the north

Question 16

another experience of black americans in northern cities

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in new york the growth of black culture music and art and new music and dance created pride in being black

Question 17

one thing that happened st selma

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it was a march organised by martin luther king from selma all the way to birmingham that began march 7th 600 marchers

Question 18

another thing that happened at selma

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when all the marchers reached the outskirts they were attacked by state troops and local police

Question 19

another thing that happened at selma

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march on selma was known as bloody sunday marting luther king and his supporters marched along the same route on march 21st

Question 20

another thing that happened at selma

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martin luther king gave a speech to a crowd of 25,000 people withing hours of this speech a white 39 year old was murdered

Question 21

another thing that happened at selma

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martin luther king was in prison as he led demonstrations to protest on how difficulty of many black trying to vote

Question 22

another thing that happened at selma

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martin luther king believed that the fear of wanting to vote or difficulty was vital if civil rights won

Question 23

race riots 1

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police were seen as the enemy as mostly everyone on the force was white and the police would harass young black children

Question 24

race riots 2

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poverty and unemployment they didn’t get much job oppurtunities so they didn’t earn money and they didn’t like that they didn’t get money as they couldn’t buy things like food

Question 25

race riots 3

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healthcare they didn’t have a lot of medical centres in the ghettos and they couldn’t get medical care even if they needed it they got ill faster

Question 26

race riots 4

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lack of social investment black americans got angry because of their living conditions and the poor quality they were overcrowded but forced to endure it

Question 27

race riots 5

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lack of education children in the ghettos didnt get much of an education so they might not of been able to get good jobs as they werent skilled

Question 28

race riots 6

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protesting they took civil rights protest into their own hands as ways to use violence cause they wanted black power