USA KQ2 Flashcards
Why did many people come to America?
To avoid religious persecution
What is religious fundamentalism?
Where people take the bible literally
Where was religious fundamentalism strongest?
In the “Bible Belt” of southern states
What law was broken in the monkey trial?
The Butler Act in 1925 was passed in six states and banned the teaching of the theory of evolution
What happened in the monkey trial?
John Scopes, a supply teacher, taught the theory of evolution from a textbook he was told to teach. The court case received a high level of media attention and was known as the “monkey trial”
He was fined $100
How many black people were in America in 1900 and what percentage lived in the south?
12 million, 75% in the south
What laws led to segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
What did black people do because of demand for goods in the north?
Migrate north
When did the KKK begin?
1865
When and why was the KKK revived?
In 1915 after the film “the clansmen” was released
Who could join the KKK?
White
Anglo-
Saxon
Protestants
Who did the KKK discriminate against?
Black people, Roman Catholics, Jews and Mexicans
What did the KKK do?
Lynch people (430)
Bribe and scare court members
Use friends to stop them from being arrested
Why did membership in the KKK decrease?
In 1925 the Khan Indiana Grand Dragon was arrested for causing serious injuries to a woman on a train
Booker T. Washington
Opened the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to provide education for black people in 1900
