Religion and Race Flashcards
Was America a country of religious and racial intolerance? (38 cards)
What were the areas that held strong religious views in America known as?
Bible Belt
What was the name for the Protestants who took the Bible literally?
Fundamentalists
What did 6 states, including Tennessee, ban the teaching of?
Evolution
Who was the teacher who deliberately broke the law and taught evolution?
John Scopes
John Scopes was put on trial. What did this trial become known as?
The Monkey Trial
Which leading Fundamentalist led the case for the prosecution?
William Jennings Bryan
Who was John Scopes’ Lawyer? (Monkey Trial)
Clarence Darrow
Where did the Monkey Trial take place?
Dayton, Tennessee
The Monkey Trial caught the country’s imagination. The trial was less about the case and more about what?
Conservative America vs Progressive America
What was the outcome of the trial?
Scopes was found guilty and fined $100. However, it was a success as the trial humiliated the Fundamentalists and eventually helped lead to the teaching of evolution.
How were Native Americans destroyed?
Killed buffalo, Christianity, took away power of tribal chiefs.
Where were Native American children sent?
Special Boarding schools.
How did the settlers treat Native Americans?
As inferior - Cheating them out of land.
In what year was the Merlam report made which said the boarding schools were underfunded?
1928
What was passed in 1887 that gave the right to take away 86m acres of Native American Land.
Allotment Act
In what year were the Native Americans granted US citizenship ang given the right to vote?
1924
What changed for Native Americans after they got the right to vote?
Very little
What percentage of American’s Black population lived in the South in 1900?
75%
What were the laws that segregated black people from whites known as?
Jim Crow Laws
What 2 facilities in particular were worse for Blacks then Whites?
Health and Education
In theory, what [should] segregation have been for Blacks?
‘Separate but Equal’
In certain states, what did Black people have to pass in order to be able to vote?
A literacy Test
Black People moved to the North to look for work and gain a better life from 1916-1920. What was this period known as?
The Great Migration
Where did Black people often end up living once they moved North?
Ghettos
