Religion And Race

Question 1

When was the KKK formed

Answer 1

1866

Question 2

How many black people lived in America in 1910?

Answer 2

10 million

Question 3

When was the UNIA formed?

Answer 3

1914

Question 4

NAACP- 90,000 people
UNIA first headquarters in NYC

Answer 4

1919

Question 5

Bible Belt believed only creationism should be taught in school

Answer 5

1924-1925

Question 6

The monkey trial

Answer 6

Trial finished on 10 July 1925

Question 7

Bible belt

Answer 7

An area of southern America, where Christian belief is strong

Question 8

Fundamentalist

Answer 8

Believes the Bible word for word

Question 9

Creationism

Answer 9

Belief, living species were created by God

Question 10

Jim Crow law

Answer 10

Discriminated against black Americans in the southern states

Question 11

Segregation

Answer 11

Separate but equal

Question 12

Describe Natives Americans and their life throughout America in the 1920s

Answer 12

Forced to live like white people made to live on reservations, forced to cut their hair and banned from wearing face paint

Forced to go to special boarding schools and taught only Christianity

1924 they were granted US citizenship they could not vote. Many of them fought during World War I.

1928 the Meriam report
Commended that the Christianity only curriculum should be dropped and native Americans should be taught skills in education for a life of their own

Question 13

Describe the effect of the Jim Crow laws

Answer 13

The law segregated, black Americans and all public places, schools, parks, hospitals, restaurants, swimming, pools, and libraries

Black and white in different neighbourhoods, no marriage between black and white people

Question 14

Christian fundamentalists

Answer 14

Believed the bible word for word

Question 15

Bible Belt

Answer 15

Area of USA that is very religious with fundamentalist preachers

Question 16

Revivalists

Answer 16

Didn’t like new culture in cities

Question 17

Name some Bible Belt states

Answer 17

Alabama Kentucky Tennessee

Question 18

Creationism vs evolution in Bible Belt states

Answer 18

Darwin theory of evolution, contradicted the formed beliefs that the world was created in seven days by god

Question 19

Butler act , what and when

Answer 19

1924 Tennessee passed butler act banning teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution

Question 20

Effects of the Monkey trial

Answer 20

Trial was broadcasted on the radio and revived large national media attention despite John scopes still being found guilty Clarence darrow(johns lawyer) successfully damaged fundamentalist case

Question 21

Reservation

Answer 21

Land set apart for the use of native Americans

Question 22

The meriam report

Answer 22

1928
Stated that the boarding school for Native American children were poorly funded and understaffed
The report commended that the curriculum which taught only European American cultural value should be dropped

Question 23

Strange fruit

Answer 23

Written by a teacher in 1937, it protested against American racism, partially the lynching of African-Americans. The song was blacklisted for being too controversial.

Question 24

Why were the Jim Crow laws introduced

Answer 24

They introduced laws to control, freedom, white Americans in the south with frighten that black Americans might take over the gym. Crow law meant that black Americans suffered, racial discrimination and economic inequality.

Question 25

Ghetto

Answer 25

A poor urban area occupied by a minority group Black Americans had the worst housing, but paid higher rents

Question 26

When was the kkk formed

Answer 26

1860s and membership grew quickly in 1915

Question 27

2 main organisations to tackle unfair way blacks were treated

Answer 27

NAACP William de Bois- a peaceful movement

UNIA Marcus Garvey - more militant movement