History GCSE - Intolerance in the 1920's USA
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- Intolerance in the 1920's
- KKK
- A racist cult full of white supremacists based in southern states (where most blacks lived)
- They opposed African-Americans being given more rights
- Also prejudice against immigrants, Catholics and Jewish people
- They used intimidation and violence: - Lynching (illegal executions)
- Membership had grown to around 4 million by 1925
- Members mainly included poor whites who felt threatened by blacks and immigrants taking their jobs. And also, some policemen and politicians were members.
- Red Scare
- This was prejudice against new immigrants and fears of communist agitators entering the country.
- series of bombings across the country to whip a 'red scare'. 4000 people deported, mainly russians.
- Sacco and Vanzetti (italian anarchists) convicted of murder and robbery. Judge was prejudiced.
- Jim Crow Laws
- Were laws that discriminated against African Americans - southern states
- some laws made it difficult for them to vote
- eg. in some states, in order to vote you had to show that your grandfather had voted (in most cases ancestors were slaves with no voting rights)
- Some laws forced African Americans and White to use separate facilities eg. different schools, transport, parks. theatres
- This was called SEGREGATION
- KKK
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