Race and Religion ⛪️

Question 1

What was a popular kind of Christianity at the time?

Answer 1

Fundamentalism

Question 2

Give examples the treatment of Native Americans

Answer 2

~Forced to live on poor quality reservations
~Children were sent to boarding schools
~Native men were made to cut their hair
~Native women banned from using face paint

Question 3

When was the Indian Citizenship Act?

Answer 3

1924

Question 4

Was the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 successful?

Answer 4

No, as although they were allowed to vote, they were treated as second class citizens and were generally poor.

Question 5

Who broke the law by teaching Darwins theory of evolution?

Answer 5

Johnny Scopes (Biology teacher)

Question 6

When was the ‘Monkey Trial’?

Answer 6

July 1925

Question 7

What was the outcome of the ‘Monkey Trial’?

Answer 7

Scopes was found guilty and fined 100 dollars.

Question 8

By 1900, how many black people were living in America?

Answer 8

12 million.

Question 9

Give examples of Jim Crow laws

Answer 9

~Black people unable to vote
~Jobs segregated black and white people

Question 10

When was the Great Migration?

Answer 10

1916-1920

Question 11

What happened during the Great Migration?

Answer 11

1 million black went north to New York and Chicago.

Question 12

When did the Ku Klux Klan begin?

Answer 12

1865

Question 13

Who was the Ku Klux Klan revived by?

Answer 13

William J Simmons in 1915.

Question 14

When was the KKK at it’s peak?

Answer 14

Mid 1920’s with 5 million members.

Question 15

Who did the KKK discriminate against?

Answer 15

Mexicans, Roman Catholics, Jews and black people.

Question 16

Why did the KKK decline in members?

Answer 16

As David Stephenson (Indiana Grand Dragon) was found guilty of rape and mutilation of a woman in 1925.

Question 17

When and who was the Tuskegee Institute set up by?

Answer 17

Booker T Washington in 1900.

Question 18

When and who was the NAACP set up by?

Answer 18

William Dubois in 1909.

Question 19

When and who was the UNIA set up by?

Answer 19

Marcus Garvey in 1914.

Question 20

How did organisations fight back against racial injustice?

Answer 20

~The Tuskegee Institute provided education and job training to black people
~The NAACP used legal methods such as marches and protests
~The UNIA encouraged black people only businesses and black people returning to Africa