KKK - 1800-1900s Flashcards
(20 cards)
Who were the kkk targeting
All immigrants that weren’t “Americanized”
Who were “Dangerous Imigrants”
Immigrants who weren’t from north/west Europe
What is Xenophobia
The fear of Imigrants/outsiders
What were the kkk born from
End of the Civil War and the abolishing of slavery
What was the 1924 National Origins Act
Severly restricted immigration from Southern/Eastern Europe and parts of Asia
What was the 1844 Black Exclution Act
Black people got whipped 39 times per 6 months spent settled in Oregon
1857 Oregon Constitution
Banned slavery and black residency in Oregon
Alien Land Law
Imigrents (aliens) unable to own land (mainly targeting japanese)
Anti Catholic Legislation
Bills passed to make public education mandatory and outlawed religious garbage in the classroom - targeted catholic schools
What happened as a result of pearl harbor
Japanese immigrants sent to concentration camps
What was the Red Scare
A period of intense fear of communism and socialist ideology in the US
Why were the FBI created in the early 1920s
Deal with Red Scare and deal with political radicals
Who were Radicals
People who embraced communism, socialism, and anarchism ideologies
What is socialism
A political system where resources aren’t owned privately, but collectively (usually by the state)
What is anarchism
A political system without hierarchal government, but a voluntary/ cooperative type structure
What are the Palmer Raids
Government led raids that mainly targeted radicals and people with communistic like beliefs
What is the Scopes Trial
John Scopes got put on trial for teaching students evolution, found guilty, but overturned on technicality
Who was John T. Scopes
A substitute high school teacher who taught students the theory of evolution (which was banned at the time)
Who is Clarence Darrow
John Scopes’ lawyer
Who is William Jennings Bryan
Prosecutor who found John Scopes guilty
