Why Did the Enlightenment Philosophers Want to Reform the Ancien Regime?
KKK-
Formed in 1866, the organisation reformed and attacked Catholics and Jews as well as African Americans. In the early 1920s it was hugely popular with 5 million members.
White Americans saw the negative consequences of the racial and cultural mix of the USA.
Many Jews fled Europe before and during the First World War.
KKK supporters believed that the USA's greatness was founded on the achievements of WASPS.
WASPS = White Anglo Saxon Protestants (other religions were seen as inferior)
Sometimes the KKK paraded at night times as well as during the day. Wearing white hoods and white sheets.
The KKK's aims were to terrorise African Americans and other 'hated' groups like Jews and Catholics.
African Americans feared the KKK.
They suffered the acts of violence such as being beaten, raped or even lynched.
The courts were on side with the whites, as many police and judges were members of the KKK.
KKK members decreased in the later 1920s. A well published court case led to one of the leaders being convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of a woman on a train.
Even so, there was still much racism in the USA.
Segregation - Keeping a group separate from the rest of society.
Isolationism
The USA entered the First World War in 1917. President Wilson played important roles in peace talks. Woodrow Wilson had fourteen points.
Some of these fourteen points were: * A ban on secret treaties and a reduction in arms. * Countries should not claim other countries (colonies without consulting each other and the local inhabitants) * Self determination for countries that were once part of the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian empires. * Independence for Belgium. * France to regain Alsace-Lorraine. * Independence for Poland with access to the sea. * Set up of the League of Nations (the fourteenth point).
Fordney McCumber
- 1922.
This tariff rose the rates on imported foreign goods in hope that domestic manufacturing would prosper. It intended
Formed in 1866, the organisation reformed and attacked Catholics and Jews as well as African Americans. In the early 1920s it was hugely popular with 5 million members.
White Americans saw the negative consequences of the racial and cultural mix of the USA.
Many Jews fled Europe before and during the First World War.
KKK supporters believed that the USA's greatness was founded on the achievements of WASPS.
WASPS = White Anglo Saxon Protestants (other religions were seen as inferior)
Sometimes the KKK paraded at night times as well as during the day. Wearing white hoods and white sheets.
The KKK's aims were to terrorise African Americans and other 'hated' groups like Jews and Catholics.
African Americans feared the KKK.
They suffered the acts of violence such as being beaten, raped or even lynched.
The courts were on side with the whites, as many police and judges were members of the KKK.
KKK members decreased in the later 1920s. A well published court case led to one of the leaders being convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of a woman on a train.
Even so, there was still much racism in the USA.
Segregation - Keeping a group separate from the rest of society.
Isolationism
The USA entered the First World War in 1917. President Wilson played important roles in peace talks. Woodrow Wilson had fourteen points.
Some of these fourteen points were: * A ban on secret treaties and a reduction in arms. * Countries should not claim other countries (colonies without consulting each other and the local inhabitants) * Self determination for countries that were once part of the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian empires. * Independence for Belgium. * France to regain Alsace-Lorraine. * Independence for Poland with access to the sea. * Set up of the League of Nations (the fourteenth point).
Fordney McCumber
- 1922.
This tariff rose the rates on imported foreign goods in hope that domestic manufacturing would prosper. It intended