2.4.3 African American Experience

Which group was targeted by the Palmer Raids?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Match the following viewpoints each of these men likely would agree with.

• Africans should move back to Africa. We can have a great nation in Africa.

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• We must cultivate friendly relations with the southern white man.

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• the laws do not treat black people with courtesy or consideration. Trials are unfair to black men.

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Match the following with what each leader was most likely to agree with.

• Double-conciousness, political leadership, challenge discrimination laws.

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• Self improvement, economic infrastructure, abide by segregation laws.

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• self-reliance, racial pride, black separatism

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Match the following

• we must insist continually... that voting is necessary, that color discrimination is barbarism.

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• It has been deemed fit and opportune to found a new society to bring people together.

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• I plead for industrial education and development because I want to free him

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Which leaders beliefs are relected in the ideas of this quote?

• A

• B

• C

• D

The key takeaway of the Black Wall Street in Tulsa should be that there were African-American communities who experienced the ​ (a)   of the ​ (b)   .

• prosperity
• Roaring Twenties

There were pockets of African American communities throughout the nation that experienced the ​ (a)   of the 1920s. Their example of ​ (b)   was inspiring civil rights organizations. There was ​ (c)   to these advances, however. Nativism combined with the ​ (d)   Movement contributed to the Red Scare, the Scopes Trial, and Prohibition.

• prosperity
• self-sufficiency
• push back
• Fundamentalist

The next historical development of the 1920s we will examine is: the expansion of the Ku Klux Klan. Why do you think the KKK re-emerged in the 1920s?

Generally speaking, any individual who was viewed as a threat to the traditional status of white American males was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Select which groups this included

• The Harlem Renaissance and Black Wall Streets

• Women as flappers who challenged gender norms

• Immigrants as new immigrants shifted local culture

• Labor unions as they could be communist

• Catholics and Jews

The slogan “​ (a)   ” portrayed the ​ (b)   as a patriotic, God-fearing organization that appreciated ​ (c)   values. 

• America for Americans
• KKK
• traditional