Great Depression Study Guide
Slides do conjunto (13)
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- 1. Started in 1925
- 2. A teacher was accused for violating the Tennessee Butler Act which prohibited public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin.
- 3. Teaching evolution in school's was banned because Arkansas citizens held a vote and used to popular vote.
- 4. Scopes' was fined $100
- 5. The purpose of this trial was to get the case in front of the supreme court to have it ruled weather or not the teaching or evolution was unconstitutional and went against people's freedom of speech and religion.
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- 1. 1.2 million African Americans fled from the south to the north in order to get away from the segregation laws and to live a better life in the north.
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- 1. Happened in September of 1919
- 2. Occurred over 2 days and 1 night.
- 3. Involved a group of 500 white men.
- 4. Over 100 African Americans died in result of this.
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- 1. African American male that was able to get the courts to overturn the murder of 12 African American males during the Elaine Race Riots.
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Little Rock a Travelers was a...
- 1. Minor league baseball team
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- 1. All white towns in the U.S. that practice segregation by enforcing laws excluding people of other races via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence from living in their towns.
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Tenant Farmers and Sharecropper
- Major Differences
- 1. Tenant farmers had to provide their own animals and tools.
- 2. Sharecroppers were mostly poor African American farmers whereas tenant farmers were mostly poor white farmers.
- 3. Sharecroppers received 50% of the crop whereas tenant farmers received 75% of crop.
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- 1. West Memphis
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- 1. Radios
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- 1. El Dorado
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- 1. Term given to the explosive number of African American artist
- 2. Term given to the renewed Harlem, NY
- 3. Term given to the explosion of jazz musicians in South
- 4. Term given to expression freedom and hope
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- 1. Policy protecting the interest of native inhabitants from those of immigrants.