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38 Cards in this Set
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What were the areas that held strong religious views in America known as? |
Bible Belt |
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What was the name of the Protestants who believed in the bible word? |
Fundamentalists |
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What did 6 states, including Tenessee, ban the teaching of? |
Evolution |
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Who was the teacher who deliberately broke the law and taught evolution? |
Johnny Scopes |
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What was the trial that Johnny Scopes was put on called? |
Monkey Trial |
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Which leading fundamentalist led the case for the prosecution? |
William Jennings Bryan |
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Who was Scopes's Lawyer? |
Clarence Darrow |
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Where did the monkey trial take place? |
Dayton, Tenessee |
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The monkey trial was less about the case and more about what? |
Conservative Vs Progressive America |
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Scopes was found guilty. How much was he fined? |
$100 |
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European settlers first arrived in America during which periods? |
Tudor and Stuart |
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Which new diseases killed hundreds of thousands of the native Americans? |
Cholera, smallpox, measles |
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How did the settlers treat the native Americans? |
As inferior-cheating them out of the land |
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Which tribe were destroyed in the first wave of destruction? |
Iroquis tribe |
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What was passed in 1887 that gave the government the right to take away 86 million acres of Native American land? |
Allotment Act |
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In what year were Native Americans granted US citizenship and given the right to vote? |
1924 |
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What changed for Native Americans after being given US citizenship? |
Very little |
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What percentage of America's 12 million Black population lived in the South in 1900? |
75% |
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What were the laws that segregated black people from whites known as? |
Jim Crow Laws |
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What 2 facilities in particular were poorer for blacks than whites? |
Health and Education |
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In theory, what should segregation have been for Blacks? |
Separate but equal |
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In certain states, what did black people have to pass in order to be able to vote? |
Literacy test |
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Black people moved north to look for work and gain a better life from 1916-20. What was this period known as? |
Great migration |
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Where did black people often end up living once they moved to the North? |
Ghettos |
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How many Black people were killed in the Chicago race riot of 1920? |
38 |
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Despite racism, in which states was there a growing black middle class? |
Chicago and New York |
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Which peaceful anti-racism organisation was founded by William Du Bois? |
NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) |
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The Ku Klux Klan Was originally founded in order to establish what? |
White supremacy |
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The KKK was reestablished in 1915 by who? |
William Simmons |
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Which film was released in 1915 that inspired the re-emergence of the KKK? |
The Birth of a Nation |
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Who was allowed to join the KKK? |
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) |
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By 1923, how many members did the KKK have? |
5 million |
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What was the symbol of the KKK's night meetings, which was also used to intimidate? |
Burning cross |
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What did KKK members wear and carry? |
White cloaks, American flag |
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Who were the strongest supporters of the Klan? |
White, working-class in the south |
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Who were the high profile members? |
Two US senators from Georgia and the governor of Alabama |
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What violent acts were the clan associated with? |
Lynching, killing, mutilation, flogging (e.g. whipping), tar and feather |
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Support fell from 1925 after which Grand Dragon was found guilty of rape and mutilation (removing of limbs) of a woman on a train? |
D C Stephenson |
