Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. A ______ is a person who who believes in sharing wealth equally.
- 'communist' ✓
- Which groups were targeted during the Palmer Raids in 1919 and 1920?
- anarchists ✓
- capitalists
- communists ✓
- industrialists
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- Write the missing word. The ______ Scare was a period in America lasting into the early 1920s when there was intense fear and paranoia of anarchist and communist threats.
- 'Red' ✓
- Which of the following groups were often suspected of being anarchists and communists in 1920s America?
- African Americans
- factory owners
- Native Americans
- recent immigrants ✓
- trade unionists ✓
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Communists take power in Russia following revolution
- 2⇔Seattle General Strike
- 3⇔Mayor of Seattle claims strikers wanted a revolution
- 4⇔Trade union membership in the USA declines
- Which example best demonstrates that the Red Scare led to increased racial intolerance in the USA?
- introduction of Prohibition
- Sacco and Vanzetti case ✓
- St Valentine's Day Massacre
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Exit quiz
- Match each of the keywords with the correct definitions.
- ghetto⇔poor area of a city where people of a particular race or religion live ✓
- minorities⇔small groups of people who differ from the main population ✓
- segergate⇔to separate groups of people based on things like their race ✓
- supremacy⇔situation where one thing is considered better than another ✓
- Which of the following groups were seen as 'pure Americans' by the KKK?
- African Americans
- Catholics
- Jews
- WASPs ✓
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- Write the missing word. A race ______ occurred in Chicago in 1919.
- 'riot' ✓
- How many members did the KKK have by 1925?
- 50 000
- 500 000
- 2 500 000
- 5 000 000 ✓
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- 59 African Americans were lynched in 1921 and 68 people were whipped by the Dallas KKK in 1922. Which conclusion in most valid based on these statistics?
- Police forces and courts in the South treated African Americans severly.
- Racial tension led to increasing lawlessness in the South. ✓
- White violence against African Americans often went unpunished.
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- Which example best demonstrates that segregation effectively existed in the North?
- African Americans were usually paid lower wages than white workers.
- Jim Crow laws were in place.
- Prejudiced views of African americans and immigrants were widespread.
- Some public spaces were unofficially for 'white's only'. ✓
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Key learning points
- The Ku Klux Klan revived after 1915 and was committed to protecting 'pure Americanism'.
- Membership of the KKK peaked at 5 000 000 and extended nationwide.
- Jim Crow Laws enforced segregation of African American people in the South.
- African Americans also faced persecution and discrimination in the North.
- Recent immigrants, Catholics and Jews were victims of racial tensions.
Common misconception
Racial tension was only an issue for African Americans in the 1920s.
In both the North and South, Catholics, Jews and recently arrived immigrants frequently experienced prejudice, discrimination and even violence from WASPs, just as African Americans did.
Keywords
Klansmen - members of the Ku Klux Klan were known as Klansmen
Supremacy - supremacy refers to a situation where one thing is considered better than another
Minorities - minorities are small groups of people within a country who differ from the main population in race, religion, culture or language; in the USA this included African Americans and recent immigrants
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