Key Question 2: Religion and Race Flashcards
Why was America appealing to religious minorities?
In constitution, Americans are free to believe whatever they chose without prosecution.
What happened to older beliefs after the first world war?
A greater number of conservative Americans pushed for a more traditional form of religious study. This became Religious Fundamentalism.
What was Religious Fundamentalism?
The following of the Bible literally or very strictly.
What did new religious fundamentalist dislike?
- Influence of Cinema
- Jazz
- The new way a woman dressed or acted
What did laws prohibit which supported fundamentalism?
Short swimming costumes and
gambling on a Sunday.
What was the Bible belt?
A series of states which supported ideas of religious fundamentalism.
What are some examples of states in the BIble belt?
Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky and North Carolina.
What was the Butler Act?
A law passed in 1925 to prohibit the teaching of Charles Darwin’s Theory of evolution as it contradicted the story of creation.
Who was John Scopes?
A supply teacher who taught from the wrong textbook the theory of evolution and was arrested for acting against the Butler Act.
What was the Monkey Trial?
The trial of John Scopes in court after he felt that he had done nothing wrong in teaching evolution.
Why was the monkey trial significant?
The court case received a great deal of publicity in the media, radio and press.
What was public opinion of the Monkey Trial?
That ideas on fundamentalism were irrational.
What was the result of the monkey trial?
John Scopes was found guilty and fined $100
By 1900, how many black people lived in the United States?
12 Million
in 1900, what percent of black people lived in the south.
75%
When did Slavery end?
1865
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that introduced racial segregation.
Who was unaffected by the economy of the 1920’s and 1930’s?
Black Americans as they were always worse off than white people.
What did increased Industrial Development cause?
New Jobs to be founded in industrial cities due to a greater demand for manufactured goods.
Which cities did black Americans move to, to find work?
New York, Chicago, Detroit
What were areas in cities where black people lived called?
Ghettos
Name an example of an American ghetto.
Harlem in New York
When did the American Civil War end?
1865
When was the KKK revived, and what with?
1915, with the release of the film
The Clansmen
By 1921, how many members did the KKK have?
100, 000 members
By the mid 1920’s how many members did the KKK have?
5 million, they were at their strongest.
Who were members of the Ku Klux Klan?
WASPs, White Anglo Saxon Protestants
Who did the KKK discriminate against?
Black people, Roman Catholics, Jews and Mexicans.
What was Rope Law?
The hanging or lynching of someone without trial or hearing.
Who were part of the KKK?
Nearly everybody including the Emergency Services forcing politicians to hold racist opinions to avoid losing votes.
What was David Stepherson found guilty of in 1925?
Klan Indiana Grand Dragon was found guilty of causing serious injuries to a women on a Chicago train.
By 1928, how many members did the KKK have?
A few hundred thousand
Who was Booker T. Washington?
A former Black Slave who opened the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama by 1900 to educate and train black people for economic and political progress.
What was the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People?
The NAACP were established in 1909 and focused on opposing racism and segregation through litigation.
Who founded the NAACP?
William du Bois
What was UNIA?
The Universal Negro Improvement Association was established by Marcus Garvey to hold a more militant approach to oppose racism.
What was one idea held by UNIA?
Black people should only employ black people.
What was the famous saying of Marcus Garvey?
Black is Beautiful
By the 1900’s what had the American government done to oppress Native Americans?
- Forced Assimilation
- Sent to CHristian Boarding Schools
- Placed in reservations and treated poorly
What Act did the government pass in 1924?
The Indian Citizenship Act
What was the Eugenics Project?
The sterilization of Native American women in the 1920’s.
What was the Meriam Report?
A 1928 report which suggested Native American children should be taught traditional skills and the Christian curriculum.
