What was the Bible Belt?
A religious festival
A religious area in the southern states of the USA
An area of the USA where the Bible is banned
How many states prohibited the teaching of Charles Darwin's evolution ideas in schools in 1925?
None
Six
48
Why was John Scopes arrested?
He was leader of The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
For teaching about Darwin and evolution in his biology lessons
For organising a major Biblical Conference
What was the outcome of the Monkey Trial?
Scopes was found guilty and fined $100
Scopes was banned from teaching
Scopes confessed he did not agree with Darwin's theory of evolution
Who acted as lawyer for the Fundamentalists during the Monkey Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
John Scopes
What did the Jim Crow laws introduce to the southern states of America?
Ghettos
The Ku Klux Klan
Segregation
Who could join the Ku Klux Klan?
Black people
WASPs
Jews
How many members of the KKK were there by the mid 1920s?
5,000
5 million
50 million
Members of the KKK often killed people by lynching. What is lynching?
Killing people in jail
Shooting people during a trial
Killing people, often by hanging, without trial
Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914?
Marcus Garvey
William du Bois
Booker T Washington