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Quiz 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many race riots in the United States during 1919? | There were 25 race riots that occured in the United States in 1919. |
| Where did the one spoke about in class take place? | The one discussed in class was a riot that broke out in the summer of 1919 in Chicago. |
| What caused this riot? | Black kids were swimming at the beach, separate from the whites. They ended up on a raft at the whites side, and a black kid was struck with a rock and drowned. |
| Describe the riot: | A riot breaks out for the next 3 days in Chicago and 38 people are dead in the Chicago race riot. 23 black, 15 white. Plenty injured. |
| What is the Summer of 1919 called? | The summer of 1919 is known as the "Red Summer" as the streets are running with blood. |
| Who is Marcus Garvey? | Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican political activist who grew up in Jamaica. |
| What was the job of Garvey's father? | Garvey's father was a gravedigger in Jamaica. He once left Marcus in a dug up grave, forcing him to find his way out. Setting an example on how people were racist and would not help him in society, he had to figure it out himself. |
| What group did Marcus Garvey start in 1914? | The group is called the "Universal Negro Improvement Association" in 1914. He wants to lead his people to independence. |
| What is the motto of the UNIA? | The motto of the UNIA is "One Aim, One God, One Destiny". |
| What year did Garvey come to the United States? | Marcus Garvey came to the USA in 1916 with an idea of making money and going back to Jamaica to build a school and more. |
| What happened with Garvey and the UNIA? | When coming to America, he realized the economy was in trouble and decided to run the UNIA here. He established his movement in Harlem. |
| Which little boy went to the UNIA's hearing sessions with his father? | Malcolm X |
| What is the newspaper called that Garvey creates? | The newspaper is called the "Negro World" |
| What 2 types of advertisements would Garvey not allow? | Makeups and creams to make your skin lighter (wanting to be white) and chemicals/products to straighten your hair. Admire the hair God gifted you naturally with. |
| What is the Negro Factories League? | The Negro Factories League, or Corporation was a business created by Marcus Garvey. A toy he sold would be black baby dolls. Doesn't want young children playing with white dolls and looking up to them. |
| How did Garvey differ from W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington? | Garvey would preach to go back to the homeland in Africa, visit and take care of where they came from. Don't totally erase your identity when coming to America. |
| What did Marcus Garvey create to help his idea of visiting home? | He created a business called the "Black Star Line", a shipping company founded in 1919. |
| What happened to Marcus Garvey? | Garvey was a nice guy who would do anything for his people and business, whether legally correct or not. He would be arrested for mail fraud for breaking laws despite trying to help. |
| Who is the head of the FBI who works to catch Garvey? | Jay Edgar Hoover is the head of the FBI who was able to get Garvey and deport him. |
| Who is Alfred E. Smith? | Alfred E. Smith, born in the 1800's was a poor kid whose father died when he was 10. He worked full time while in school to support his family so that his mother would not send his siblings away. |
| Alfred E. Smith career | Alfred E. Smith early on was a democrat and a Tammany Hall politician. He would be elected as governor of New York for 4 terms. |
| What was Smith known for? | Alfred E. Smith would be the first Irish-Catholic governor of New York State, and first Catholic candidate for president. |
| When did Alfred E. Smith run for President? | Alfred E. Smith would run for President in 1928 as the Democratic Candidate? |
| Who was the other Candidate in the 1928 Election? | Herbert Hoover was the Republican candidate and would win the 1919 election. |
| What was Alfred E. Smith's nickname for rally speeches? | Alfred E. Smith's nickname was the "Happy Warrior". |
| Who would replace Alfred E. Smith as New York Governor? | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| What happened when Alfred E. Smith went to campaign in Oklahoma? | The KKK lit up burning crosses alongside the railroad crosses, signaling he didn't belong here because he was Catholic. |
| Who is D.W. Griffin? | D.W. Griffin is a film director and directed the "Birth of a Nation". |
| What is the film "Birth of a Nation" | A KKK movie released in the Spring of 1915 |
| Who and what organization protests the "Birth of a Nation" | W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP protests the "Birth of a Nation". A nationwide campaign to try and have the film banned is on the groups first movements. |
| What was the booked released in 1905? | In 1905, author Robert Dixon released a book called "The Clansman". |
| What did President Woodrow Wilson say about the film "Birth of a Nation"? | "It is like writing history with lightning". Woodrow Wilson is saying that he agrees with the stereotypes from the movie in "Birth of a Nation". |
| What happened with the KKK in 1920? | The KKK was reformed in 1920 after World War 1. There are 2 million new members. |
| What 5 groups did the newly reformed KKK target? | Immigrants, Jews, Catholics, Blacks, Political Radicals (Communists/Socialists) |
| What happened in 1992? | In 1992, the National Film Registry regards the "Birth of a Nation" as a classic. |
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