Racism in 1920s USA

Question 1

What name was given to the set of laws that legally allowed black people to be treated as ‘inferior’ second class citizens?

Answer 1

Jim Crow Laws

Question 2

What was segregation?

Answer 2

The policy of keeping different races apart

Question 3

What does WASP stand for?

Answer 3

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Question 4

Other than black people name 2 other groups targeted by the KKK?

Answer 4

Divorced women, Jews, Catholics, immigrants

Question 5

What was the book of rules followed by the KKK called?

Answer 5

Kloran

Question 6

Between 1920 and 1925 how many people were members of the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 6

5 million

Question 7

Why were the KKK able to get away with their crimes?

Answer 7

Police, politicians, judges etc were in the KKK

Question 8

What crimes did the KKK commit?

Answer 8

Beatings, arson, rape, lynching (murder)

Question 9

Who was leader of the KKK in 1925?

Answer 9

David Stephenson (he was found guilty of kidnapping, rape and murder of a young woman on a train)