USA Unit 2 Race + Religion

Question 1

Area of strong religious views in America?

Answer 1

Bible Belt

Question 2

Protestants who beleived the Bible word for word?

Answer 2

Fundamentalists

Question 3

What did 6 states including Tennessee ban the teachings of?

Answer 3

Evolution

Question 4

Who was the teacher that deliberately broke this Tennessee law and taught evolution?

Answer 4

Johnny Scopes

Question 5

He was put on trial - what was it known as?

Answer 5

The Monkey Trial

Question 6

Which leading fundamentalist led this case for the prosecution?

Answer 6

William Jennings Bryan

Question 7

Who was Scope’s lawyer?

Answer 7

Clarence Darrow

Question 8

Where did the trial take place?

Answer 8

Dayton, Tennessee

Question 9

Because of the trial’s fame, the trail was less about the case and more about what?

Answer 9

Conservative America Vs Progressive America

Question 10

Scopes was found guilty. How much was he fined?

Answer 10

$100

Question 11

Where were Native American children sent?

Answer 11

Boarding schools

Question 12

How did the settlers treat the Native Americans?

Answer 12

As infererior - treating them as inferior

Question 13

What year was the Meriam Report?

Answer 13

1928

Question 14

What did the Meriam Report say?

Answer 14

Native American schools were underfunded and abusive

Question 15

What was passed in 1887 that gave the govt the right to take away 86 million acres of Native American land?

Answer 15

The Allotment Act

Question 16

What year were Native Americans granted US citizenship and given the right to vote?

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

What changed for Native Americans after 1924?

Answer 17

Very little

Question 18

What percentage of Black Americans population lived in the south in 1900?

Answer 18

75%

Question 19

What were the laws that segregated black people from white people known as?

Answer 19

Jim Crow Laws

Question 20

What two facilities in particular were poorer than blacks than whites?

Answer 20

Health and eduction

Question 21

What was the quote that segregation should have been, in theory?

Answer 21

“Seperate but equal”

Question 22

In certain states, what did black people have to pass in order to vote?

Answer 22

Literacy test

Question 23

Black people moved north to look for work and gain a better life from 1916-20. What was this known as?

Answer 23

The Great Migration

Question 24

Where did black people typically live once they had moved north?

Answer 24

Ghettos

Question 25

How many black people were killed in Chicago race riot of 1929?

Answer 25

38

Question 26

Despite racism, in which states was there a growing black middle class?

Answer 26

Chicago and New York

Question 27

Which peaceful anti-racism organisation was founded by William Du Bois?

Answer 27

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People)

Question 28

The Ku Klux Klan was founded for what?

Answer 28

White supremacy