Describe the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
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Revived in the 1920s, the Klan became the most powerful white supremacy group in the nation.
The Klan used vigilante violence as well as political mobilizations to advance its agenda.
The Klan attacked African Americans, immigrants, Mexicans, Jews, Catholics, communists, feminists, and other radicals, as well as divorced or allegedly promiscuous women.
Klan membership included people from across the social spectrum who believed their homogeneous small-town Protestant culture was threatened by the evils of modern life.
The Klan was particularly powerful in Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Indiana.
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a. Haiti. b. Canada. c. Central America. d. Liberia.
Important in the United States's decision to enter World War I was
A) the pro-German bias of Wilson's advisers. B) increasing trade with Germany. C) refusal of the English to borrow money from the United States. D) the sinking of five ships in March 1917 by German submarines.
The Greensboro sit-in was ___________________.
A. a televised debate on issues related to the Vietnam War B. the first in a series of nonviolent challenges to racial segregation in the South C. a takeover by flower children of San Francisco's Greensboro Park D. a prayer vigil in response to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Which of the following is an example of racial violence against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century?
a) Wounded Knee Massacre b) Rock Springs Massacre c) Atlanta Race Riot d) Red Summer