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6 reasons why immigrants came to the USA
Job opportunities
American Dream
Better wages
Existing communities
Escaping persecution
Fleeing poverty
6problems experienced by immigrants
Language Barrier
Racial Tension
Religious intolerance
Low wages
Bad housing
Unemployment
6 reasons why attitudes to immigration changed
Fear of revolution
Competition for jobs
Fear of crime
Competition for housing
WASP racism
WW1
6 ways Jim Crow laws affected black americans
Separate restaurants
Separate schools
Miscegenation (no inter-race marriage)
Hard voter registration
Separate transport
Separate health care
6 methods used by the KKK
Lynching
Marches
Burning crosses
Uniform
Kidnapping
Protected by the Invisible Empire
6 reasons for the great migration north
KKK
Natural Disasters
Sharecropping
Job opportunities
Higher Pay
Friends in the North
6 ways WW2 affected civil rights
A million served
Mixing of races
Exposed US hypocrisy
Double V campaign
Executive Order 8802
Soldiers saw freedoms abroad
6 reasons why there was a growth in the CRM by 1960
Success of Double V
Emergence of organised groups
Emmett Till
Momentum of Montgomery Boycott
Success of Brown v Board of Ed
Increased media coverage
6 prominent civil rights campaigns
Brown v Board of Ed
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock, Arkansas
Freedom Rides
Sit-Ins
Birmingham Marches
4 common issues with civil rights campaigns
White support
TV/Media coverage
Non-violent
Mass action
2 specific fact about brown v board of education
First legal success
Overturns separate but equal
2 specific facts about Little Rock, Arkansas
First practical success of Brown
Federal government steps in
2 specific facts about Montgomery bus boycott
Emergence of MLK
Economic power of the Black community
2 specific facts about sit-ins
Economic power
Inspired additional sit-ins nationwide
2 specific facts about the freedom rides
Federal govt involvement esp RFK
Ended transport segregation
2 specific facts about the march on Washington
I Have A Dream
Huge publicity
2 specific facts about Selma
Concentrated on voting rights
Federal govt involvement
2 specific facts about Birmingham marches
Fill the jails
MLK publicity
6 facts about MLK
Baptist Minister
Prominence at Montgomery Boycott
Advocates non violence
Criticised for use of children at Birmingham
Great orator - I Have a Dream
Assassinated 1968 - martyrdom
4 responses by the federal government
Executive Order 8802
Civil RIghts Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
Civil RIghts Act 1968
6 problems in the ghettos
Overcrowding
Poor healthcare
Crime
Unemployment
Bad education
Poverty
6 reasons for the ghetto riots
Police Brutality
Encouragement by radical groups
Poor housing conditions
Frustration & hopelessness
Draw govt attention
Social problems
6 facts about the black panthers
Black uniforms
Armed
Observed the Police
10 point programme
Free breakfasts
Clothes/shoe banks
6 facts about Malcolm X
Joined Nation of Islam
Initially believed in separatism
‘Any means necessary’
Became more inclusive
Celebrated black culture
Assassinated 1965
