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USA: race and religion Flashcards

1
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what are some of the bible belt states?

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Texas, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee

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2
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where are the bible belt states located?

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southern states

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3
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what are religious fundametalists?

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people who believed that the bible word for word, literally

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4
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who were famous fundamentalists?

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Billy Sundae and Amy Semple Mcfersun

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5
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when was the monkey trial?

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1925

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6
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who was put on trial and why during the monkey trial?

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John T Scopes, taught evolution in school against the law

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7
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what was the butler act? when was it introduced?

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banned the teaching of evolution in public schools, introduced in 1925

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8
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who was the defense?

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Clarence Darrow

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9
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who was the prosecution?

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William Jennings Bryan

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10
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what is to be known about William J Bryan?

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he was a fundamentalist

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11
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what did the monkey trial become?

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a debate between science and religion

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12
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what happened at the end of the trial?

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Scopes was found guilty and was fined $100

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13
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where did Native Americans live?

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in reserved

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14
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what were the conditions in the reserves like?

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poor quality land meaning they could not grow they home food

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15
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when was the Indian citizenship act passed?

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1924

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16
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what was good and bad about the Indian citizenship act?

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it granted American citizenship but Native Americans were called Indians

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17
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what was the Eugenics programme?

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social planning for Native Americans:

stopped women having children

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18
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what happened when Native American children were forced to go to boarding schools?

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they were violent

forced children to convert religion, reject their culture, gave new names and shaved their heads

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19
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when was the Meriam report?

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1928

20
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what did the Meriam report do?

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said that the boarding schools were under-staffed, underfunded and run to harshly
said a change was needed

21
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what were the Jim Crow laws?

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segregation laws which separated black people from white people

22
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where were black people segregated?

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public transport, swimming pools, libraries, drinking fountains, hospitals, shops

23
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how many black people were lynched between 1915 and 1922?

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430

24
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what is the KKK?

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Ku Klux Klan

25
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what did the KKK do?

A

lynched black people

26
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who was part of the KKK?

A

white anglo saxon protestants

W.A.S.P’s

27
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what are the key features of the KKK?

A

white robes, hoods and crosses

28
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what does the white represent?

A

white supremacy

29
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who was the leader of the KKK?

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Hiram Wesley Evans

30
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why was the KKK revived?

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following the ‘Birth of a Nation’ which reinforced the idea of White Supremacy

31
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why was the KKK originally set up?

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to terrorize newly freed slaves

32
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how many members did the KKK have in 1925?

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5 million

33
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why did the KKK decline?

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David Stevenson (head of Indiana Klan) raped and mutilated a girl on a Chicago train in 1925 and during the trail spoke about illegal Klan activities which gave bad publicity

34
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what was the great migration?

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when black people migrated to the northern cities of America where there was less intolerance

35
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where did black people migrate?

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Chicago, New York and Detroit

36
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was there segregation in the north?

A

no but still racism

37
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what happened when black people migrated?

A

they had low wages, poor living conditions
last hired, first fired
race riots

38
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what happened to black peoples life expectancy after the great migration?

A

it increased

39
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what does the NAACP stand for?

A

national association for the advancement of coloured people

40
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who founded the NAACP and when?

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William Du BIois in 1909

41
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what did Du Bois believe?

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peaceful, non-violent protests using legal methods such as marches and court cases

42
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what does the UNIA stand for?

A

universal negro improvement association

43
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who founded the UNIA and when?

A

Marcus Garvey in 1914

44
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how many members did the UNIA have in 1920 and how many in its peak?

A

1920 - 2,000

peak - 250,000

45
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what did Garvey believe?

A

people should celebrate blackness and black people should return to Africa

46
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why did the UNIA fall apart?

A

Garvey was arrested and deported for postal fraud in 1925

GCSE history (8 decks)

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