Key Question 2: Religion and Race

Question 1

Why was America appealing to religious minorities?

Answer 1

In constitution, Americans are free to believe whatever they chose without prosecution.

Question 2

What happened to older beliefs after the first world war?

Answer 2

A greater number of conservative Americans pushed for a more traditional form of religious study. This became Religious Fundamentalism.

Question 3

What was Religious Fundamentalism?

Answer 3

The following of the Bible literally or very strictly.

Question 4

What did new religious fundamentalist dislike?

Answer 4

• Influence of Cinema
• Jazz
• The new way a woman dressed or acted

Question 5

What did laws prohibit which supported fundamentalism?

Answer 5

Short swimming costumes and

gambling on a Sunday.

Question 6

What was the Bible belt?

Answer 6

A series of states which supported ideas of religious fundamentalism.

Question 7

What are some examples of states in the BIble belt?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What was the Butler Act?

Answer 8

A law passed in 1925 to prohibit the teaching of Charles Darwin’s Theory of evolution as it contradicted the story of creation.

Question 9

Who was John Scopes?

Answer 9

A supply teacher who taught from the wrong textbook the theory of evolution and was arrested for acting against the Butler Act.

Question 10

What was the Monkey Trial?

Answer 10

The trial of John Scopes in court after he felt that he had done nothing wrong in teaching evolution.

Question 11

Why was the monkey trial significant?

Answer 11

The court case received a great deal of publicity in the media, radio and press.

Question 12

What was public opinion of the Monkey Trial?

Answer 12

That ideas on fundamentalism were irrational.

Question 13

What was the result of the monkey trial?

Answer 13

John Scopes was found guilty and fined $100

Question 14

By 1900, how many black people lived in the United States?

Answer 14

12 Million

Question 15

in 1900, what percent of black people lived in the south.

Answer 15

75%

Question 16

When did Slavery end?

Answer 16

1865

Question 17

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 17

Laws that introduced racial segregation.

Question 18

Who was unaffected by the economy of the 1920’s and 1930’s?

Answer 18

Black Americans as they were always worse off than white people.

Question 19

What did increased Industrial Development cause?

Answer 19

New Jobs to be founded in industrial cities due to a greater demand for manufactured goods.

Question 20

Which cities did black Americans move to, to find work?

Answer 20

New York, Chicago, Detroit

Question 21

What were areas in cities where black people lived called?

Answer 21

Ghettos

Question 22

Name an example of an American ghetto.

Answer 22

Harlem in New York

Question 23

When did the American Civil War end?

Answer 23

1865

Question 24

When was the KKK revived, and what with?

Answer 24

1915, with the release of the film

The Clansmen

Question 25

By 1921, how many members did the KKK have?

Answer 25

100, 000 members

Question 26

By the mid 1920’s how many members did the KKK have?

Answer 26

5 million, they were at their strongest.

Question 27

Who were members of the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 27

WASPs, White Anglo Saxon Protestants

Question 28

Who did the KKK discriminate against?

Answer 28

Black people, Roman Catholics, Jews and Mexicans.

Question 29

What was Rope Law?

Answer 29

The hanging or lynching of someone without trial or hearing.

Question 30

Who were part of the KKK?

Answer 30

Nearly everybody including the Emergency Services forcing politicians to hold racist opinions to avoid losing votes.

Question 31

What was David Stepherson found guilty of in 1925?

Answer 31

Klan Indiana Grand Dragon was found guilty of causing serious injuries to a women on a Chicago train.

Question 32

By 1928, how many members did the KKK have?

Answer 32

A few hundred thousand

Question 33

Who was Booker T. Washington?

Answer 33

A former Black Slave who opened the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama by 1900 to educate and train black people for economic and political progress.

Question 34

What was the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People?

Answer 34

The NAACP were established in 1909 and focused on opposing racism and segregation through litigation.

Question 35

Who founded the NAACP?

Answer 35

William du Bois

Question 36

What was UNIA?

Answer 36

The Universal Negro Improvement Association was established by Marcus Garvey to hold a more militant approach to oppose racism.

Question 37

What was one idea held by UNIA?

Answer 37

Black people should only employ black people.

Question 38

What was the famous saying of Marcus Garvey?

Answer 38

Black is Beautiful

Question 39

By the 1900’s what had the American government done to oppress Native Americans?

Answer 39

• Forced Assimilation
• Sent to CHristian Boarding Schools
• Placed in reservations and treated poorly

Question 40

What Act did the government pass in 1924?

Answer 40

The Indian Citizenship Act

Question 41

What was the Eugenics Project?

Answer 41

The sterilization of Native American women in the 1920’s.

Question 42

What was the Meriam Report?

Answer 42

A 1928 report which suggested Native American children should be taught traditional skills and the Christian curriculum.