Free at Last: American Civil RIghts

Question 1

Give 4 push factors for immigration to America.

Answer 1

• Many countries were overcrowded, leading to lots of disease.
• Famine and eviction from their homes.
• Poverty and starvation.
• High unemployment.
• Poor soil and harsh climates.
• Dangerous working conditions.

Question 2

Give 4 pull factors for immigration to America.

Answer 2

• The promise of land that could be farmed.
• Families writing to other members of the family about the opportunities in America.
• Political freedom and democracy.
• Industries were growing.
• Propaganda promised things their home countries could not offer.
• Guarantee of a job and financial security.

Question 3

Oraganised crime gangs were established in the USA

Answer 3

WASPs began to hate Italians for the crime increase

Question 4

Russia’s communist revolution

Answer 4

WASPs were scared of Russian immigrants bringing revolution to the country

Question 5

Immigrants lived in slum housing in cities

Answer 5

Landlords raised rent - WASPs hated immigrants for this.

Question 6

Immigrants were willing to work for lower wages

Answer 6

This angered WASPs and they blamed them for being strike-breakers.

Question 7

The USA fought Germany and Italy in WWI.

Answer 7

WASPs saw immigrants from those places as the enemy.

Question 8

Small-town America felt their way of life was under threat

Answer 8

This led to a rise of racism and groups like the KKK.

Question 9

What happened in 1921?

Answer 9

US government announced that only 3% of immigrants of each nationality would be allowed into the USA.

Question 10

What happened in 1924?

Answer 10

The 3% was lowered to 2% as many immigrants were still entering the states.

Question 11

What happened in 1929?

Answer 11

Only 150 000 immigrants were allowed in yearly, 85% of which were WASPs.

Question 12

What happened in 1930?

Answer 12

Immigration from southern and eastern Europe as well as Asia had almost stopped.

Question 13

What happened in 1932?

Answer 13

Roosevelt shut the door.

Question 14

Give 4 methods that the KKK would use against black Americans

Answer 14

• Lynchings
• Marching through streets with threatening signs.
• Burning crosses outside of their houses.
• Stopped black Americans from being able to vote by standing outside of voting stations.
• Held rallies to scare them.
• Arson attacks and bombings on black American’s places of worship.

Question 15

The KKK terrorised black Americans in the southern states.

Answer 15

This led many to migrate north to escape the violence.

Question 16

The Jim Crow laws segregated all aspects of life for black Americans.

Answer 16

Many black Americans moved north to where these laws did not exist.

Question 17

Black Americans could not vote due to strict laws

Answer 17

This led many to migrate north to where they could freely vote and to where more black Americans were being elected.

Question 18

Black Americans lived in poor housing.

Answer 18

Many moved north to where housing was generally much nicer.

Question 19

Jobs in the south were low-paying and usually seasonal

Answer 19

Many moved north to where there was many factory jobs because of the outbreak of WWII

Question 20

Segregated black schools in the south were poor

Answer 20

Many moved north for better education in integrated schools

Question 21

What was the 1954 Supreme Court decision?

Answer 21

To desegregate all schools due to Linda Brown’s case.

Question 22

Who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 22

Rosa Parks

Question 23

Why was the boycott important?

Answer 23

• It showed that civil rights were possible.
• It showed the power that black people held in society as the bus companies almost went out of business.

Question 24

(SIT INS) High levels of support from white Americans

Answer 24

Created a sense of solidarity between black and white Americans

Question 25

(SIT INS)Restaurants and cafes across America could not afford the bad publicity and loss of business

Answer 25

This meant that by the summer of 1960, there were almost no segregated lunch counters.

Question 26

(SIT INS)The use of sit-in protests led to protest against other forms of racial segregation

Answer 26

For example, wade-ins at segregated pools abd pray-ins at churches.

Question 27

(SIT INS)The success of the sit-ins proved that black Americans had economic power

Answer 27

This meant it could be used to end segregation in restaurants and other segregated areas of society,

Question 28

(SIT INS) The sit-ins led to the formation of the SNCC which provided student volunteers for marches and other protests

Answer 28

For example, SNCC members participated in the Marches on Selma and Birmingham.

Question 29

(SIT INS) Sit-ins attracted a great amount of media attention and sympathy for the civil rights movement

Answer 29

this led to TV viewers watching peaceful students being mistreated every day.