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The USA 1917-29- US Society
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- 1Black Americans were "held back" by two powerful historical events. Name them1) The Slave Trade from Africa to America
2) The Civil War, about abolishing slavery - 2Southern States had laws which set out how black people were to be treated differently. What were they known as?The "Jim Crow" Laws
- 3These laws meant that there were separate toilets, restaurants, hairdressers, blood banks, and two armies. True or False?True
- 4What is the term for keeping black people separated from white people? Is it discrimination or segregation?Segregation
- 5How did literacy keep Southern blacks from voting?Had to pass a reading test in order to register
- 6How did the electoral official pass white people who were poor at reading?They gave them easy passages to read
- 7Even though there were no Jim Crow Laws in the North, there was still racism. Give two examplesThey were given the worst housing/education/lower wages
Informal segregation/harder work/poor pay - 8The KKK wanted the USA to be a WASP nation- what did this mean?The only "true" American citizens were white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant
- 9When did the KKK have the most members and was at its strongest in the USA?Following WW1 and 1920
- 10Lynchings took place in the Southern States of America. Name one of these states?Alabama/ South Carolina/ Tennessee/ Mississippi
- 11Give two reasons why it was hard to identify/stop the KKKThey wore a costume/hood
Many were police/lawyers and officials
Fear of violence
No witnesses - 12Amazingly, William Du Bois earned a degree at which leading US university?Harvard
- 13Du Bois set up an organisation, the NAACP. Give two of its aimsTo "Advance" the lives of "Coloured People" with better working conditions, housing, night classes and voting.
- 14The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organisation in the world. True or False?True
- 15In 1914, Marcus Garvey formed the UNIA- give two features of this organisationWore military uniform/ marched through Black areas/ encouraged Black Americans to set up their own businesses/ encouraged Black Americans to only employ other Black Americans/ didn't believe in intergration
- 16Give the main reason why Marcus Garvey and William Du Bois arguedDu Bois wanted Black Americans to integrate (mix) equally with White Americans. Garvey wanted to set up a new country in Africa for them
- 17Which leader (Du Bois or Garvey) ended up disgraced and in prison for fraud?Garvey
- 18Two ways in which the lives of Black Americans had improved by 1930?More school places (segregated in the South), better literacy rates, the 1922 law to stop lynching was beginning to work, Blacks from Southern states moved to cities in the North (eg. New York, Harlem)