Race and Religion

Question 1

1st Amendment

Answer 1

1791

you can believe any religion in America

Question 2

Bible Belt

Answer 2

• Southern States
• banned gambling, jazz and short swimming suits
• Sister Aimee founded Foursquare Church
• term first used in 1925 by reporter for the Monkey Trial

Question 3

John Scopes

Answer 3

• illegal teaching of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

- Tennessee

Question 4

Monkey Trial

Answer 4

• John Scopes defended by Clarence Darrow
• humiliated prosecutor - Bryan
• told students to testify against him
• £100 fine but never forced to pay

Question 5

Butler Act

Answer 5

banned the teaching of the Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in the Southern States

Question 6

lives of Native Americans before

Answer 6

• buffaloes: skin, transport, skull decoration etc
• hunted for food
• moved homes when buffaloes moved
• God: Wakan Tanka
• visions to get their adult names

Question 7

Indian Reservations (Native Americans

Answer 7

• no buffaloes
• had to farm
• had to stay in one set place

Question 8

Indian Citizenship Act (Native Americans)

Answer 8

1924

• made them Americans
• but often couldn’t vote

Question 9

Eugenics Project (Native Americans)

Answer 9

• sterilising women

Question 10

assimilation (Native Americans)

Answer 10

• taught American culture not Native culture
• children went to boarding schools
• taught English

Question 11

Meriam Report (Native Americans)

Answer 11

1928

• showed they were underpaid
• revealed truth about treatment of Native Americans

Question 12

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 12

• Southern States
• segregated blacks and whites
• Great Migration to North to escape these

Question 13

life was awful for blacks

Answer 13

North:
- 1919 race riots led to 62 deaths
- ghetto with no hope for a better home
- more expensive housing if black
South:
- 1915-1922, 430 black people lynched
- not allowed to vote

Question 14

life was good for blacks in the North

Answer 14

• Harlem, New York, centre for black music, art and writing poetry
• work for Ford Motor company and make lots of money
• population increased by 194%: increased culture in North

Question 15

Countee Cullen

Paul Robeson

Answer 15

• educated (unusual) with white males
• graduated from NY Uni in 1925
• famous actor

Question 16

WEB Dubois

Answer 16

• National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
• 90000 members by 1919

Question 17

Marcus Garvey

Answer 17

• Universal Negro Improvement Association

- inspire black Americans to return to Africa

Question 18

what did the KKK do to a victim before disbanding

Answer 18

• leave a threatening note on the door
• if didn’t leave state then they’d be injured or killed
• still shown as heroes

Question 19

rebirth of KKK

Imperial Wizard

Answer 19

• 16 men met on a hill
• lit a big cross
• movie ‘Birth of a Nation’
• emperor of the secrecy

Question 20

members in 1922

members in 1924

Answer 20

• 3 million

- 4 million

Question 21

Women of the KKK peak membership

Answer 21

• 500000

Question 22

David Kurtis Stevenson

Answer 22

• leader of Indiana, handpicked candidates
• raped and chewed a girl with no medical attention
• sent to prison
• many candidates lost their jobs and licenses

Question 23

August 8th for the KKK

Answer 23

40000 members march down Pennsylvania