Issue 2 USA essay flashcards

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Lack of Political Influence: Knowledge point
Voter Restrictions, and state impediments such as literacy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause and intimidation when registering despite the 15th amendment.
Lack of federal support for example Franklin D Roosevelt refused to sign an anti lynching bill.
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Lack of political influence: Analysis
Black people could not vote and could not elect people who would oppose the jim crow laws therefore civil rights was unlikely to improve. This meant that if the leader of the USA was not willing to lead on the issue then it is unlikely that other leaders
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Lack of political influence: Analysis +
With the migration of many black people to the northern states for work, their votes proved more important for politicians which prompted action. There were some black politicians - De Priest (as a member of congress) became a national symbol of hope for
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Legal impediments: Knowledge
Jim crow laws, the states in the south imposed their own legal restrictions on the rights and freedoms of black americans, known collectively as the “JimCrowLaws” segregated from blacks in almost every aspect of life. Separate but equal ruling, the suprem
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Legal Impediments: Analysis
As the ultimate authority this gave legal justification to racism as long as the facilities were “separate but equal” with whites, in reality segregation was now ingrained and the facilities were inferior for black people.
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Legal Impediments: Analysis +
The JimCrowLaws are which prevented Black americans from living a normal life, were less ingrained in northern states. Furthermore, it provided stimulus for the formation of the NAACP.
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KKK: Knowledge
The KKK was revived in 1915-it attacked Catholics, Jews, Communists and Immigrants as well as black people. By 1925, the KKK had an estimated 5 million members. The KKK used terror tactics such as cross burning, and lynchings -416 between 1918 and 1927 -
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KKK: Analysis
Intimidation and lynching resulted in a black population too terrified to campaign due to fear about consequences. The KKK support in the north and south made this significant. The membership of powerful individuals meant that few Klansman were held to ac
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KKK: Analysis +
By the 1920’s, scandals had discredited the KKK. In Alabama, where they had been the most powerful, they numbered less than 6,000 by 1930.
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Divisions within the black community: Knowledge
Booker T Washington said that blacks should “accept their inferior position” and should focus on improving themselves through hardwork and education. William EB Du Bois, set up the NAACP in 1909, and would contest civil rights cases. Marcus Garvey, UNIA a
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Divisions: Analysis
They all had different ideas about what civil rights should be, there was severe criticisms between them which therefore caused disunity between them.
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Divisions: Analysis +
Washington had the belief in education would help improve the lives of many blacks people and he was listened to by the POTUS. Garvey helped to foster a sense of Black Pride.
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Popular Prejudice: Knowledge
Share cropping and exploitive system which develops in the south. The great migration the black population in the north massively inc, NY-66%, CHI - 148%. The Scottsboro boys, in the 1930’s, nine young black boys and girls were falsely accused of ****** t
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Popular Prejudice: Analysis
Levels of violence, widespread poor treatment and exploitation demonstrates a significant barrier. In the south, blacks were never free from debt and were tied to the land and the former slave owners. In the north, discrimination and racism was experience
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Popular Prejudice: Analysis +
The Harlem Renaissance. Intellectual, and cultural revival of African American music, fashion, art, literature, and politics. Centred in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, in the 1920’s-1030’s. A outcome was mainstream recognition of cultural developments and t
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Black people could not vote and could not elect people who would oppose the jim crow laws therefore civil rights was unlikely to improve. This meant that if the leader of the USA was not willing to lead on the issue then it is unlikely that other leaders

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With the migration of many black people to the northern states for work, their votes proved more important for politicians which prompted action. There were some black politicians - De Priest (as a member of congress) became a national symbol of hope for

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Jim crow laws, the states in the south imposed their own legal restrictions on the rights and freedoms of black americans, known collectively as the “JimCrowLaws” segregated from blacks in almost every aspect of life. Separate but equal ruling, the suprem

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As the ultimate authority this gave legal justification to racism as long as the facilities were “separate but equal” with whites, in reality segregation was now ingrained and the facilities were inferior for black people.

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