Religion And Race Flashcards
What were fundamentalists?
People who believe in the bible word for word
A division appeared between which areas during 19-10-1929?
The more conservative rural areas and modern city culture of americas urban areas
What happened in the rural areas?
Especially in where - an area called?
Many people still went to churches
South and mid-west of the USA
The Bible Belt
What happened in the Bible Belt?
Laws were passed prohibiting the evil life of the city such as:
Banning indecent swimsuits and gambling on Sundays
What did Christian fundamentalists do?
Who was one of the most famous fundamentalist preachers and what did she do to show there’s support towards religious beliefs?
Criticised the immoral way of life of the cities, especially the jazz culture and how some women behaved
Aimee Semple McPherson
Raised more than $1.5 million in 1921 for the building of her Angelus Temple
What is the Butler Act? When did it happen and where?
Butler act made it illegal for any public school to teach any theory that denied the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the bible
Passed the act in 1924 in Tennessee and five other states
Who is John Scopes and what did he do? What was done because of this?
Deliberately taught evolution in his class in order to be arrested and put on trial
Was convicted of breaking
The law and fined $100
Was called the Monkey Trial
The first radio station broadcast of a court trial - people wanted to follow, and mocked the beliefs of those who opposed the theory of evolution
During the end of the nineteenth century what were the native Americans forced by government laws to do, what didn’t they have enough of and what were they given?
Live on territories assigned to them with poor land and not enough animals to hunt
Given food rationing and temporary houses
What did white people argue that native Americans had to do in order to be accepted?
What did children, men and women have to do?
If they rejected their old way of life and culture
Children were sent to boarding schools and taught to live as white people
Men had to cut their hair and women weren’t allowed to paint their faces
Native Americans were only seen while they exhibited… (3)
Traditional crafts, spoke their language or performed in stereotypical costumes.
In 1924, what Act was introduced and what did it do?
Native Americans were allowed to become citizens of the USA under the Indian citizenship act
This allowed them
To vote and defend their legal system
What was prepared in 1928?
What did it state?
The Meriam Report
Stayed that the boarding schools were underfunded and understaffed and run too harshly
Stated that native Americans should be provided with the skills and education for life in their own traditional rural communities as well as American urban society
What laws introduced segregation in the south?
What did it do?
The Jim Crow Laws
Kept black people separate from the white
Prevented blacks from using the same facilities as whites - separate houses, hospitals and schools
In some states, mixed marriages were forbidden
There was discrimination against black people in the fields of.. (4)
Housing, jobs, education and only some were allowed to vote
Black Americans didn’t succeed from what in the 1920s? Especially where? Why where the blacks always worse off than the whites?
What didn’t they have that stopped them from challenging the situation?
Economic prosperity
Southern states, agriculture was the basis of the economy and prices fell during the 1920s and early 1930s (farming struggled)
Had the worst jobs, lowest wages
Didn’t have much education therefore didn’t have the skills to challenge
Why did blacks find it hard to get fair treatment? (2)
Could not vote
Denied access to good jobs and reasonable education
