Name:_ ___________ _____ _______ _____ _______ _ Period:_______ Date:_ _______ _____ _______ __
The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America
Directions: Answer the questions below as you watch the video. The questions do go in order but you
have to be paying close attention to get all the answers, as some come in pretty quick succession. PRE
READ THE QUESTIONS
1. In the opening shot of the video, Klansmen are marching down Washington D.C.’s
Pennsylvania Avenue carrying American flags to show their hatred of
___________________, ____________________ , and ____________________.
2. Refugees from Europe came to the New World to escape____________________,
and they were willing to endure a number of hardship to get here.
3. By 1656,_________________________ were persecuted and because of their
beliefs,_________________________ of Virginia didn’t fare any better.
4. Forced from their lands, hundred of tribes of Native Americans like the Lakota Sioux
had seen their culture and society destroyed by the_________________________.
5. The American cavalry that escorted the tribe to their new reservation led them to what
camp where they were systematically slaughtered?
___________________________________________________________________
6. What group of immigrant laborers laid track through the mountains of California,
Nevada, and Utah?
________________________________________________________________
7. In 1882, Congress passed an immigration law stating what about Chinese
immigrants?_________________________________________________________
8. When were hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans forced to sell their
belongings and businesses and taken into custody in concentration camps in the
California deserts? ___________________________________________________
9. What was denied Felix Longoria, the Mexican-American from Texas who fought and
died for his country in the Philippines during World War II?____________________.
Eventually, his body was moved to________________________________ to be buried
in Arlington National Cemetery.
10. By 1950, over__________ African-Americans had been lynched.
11. On a Saturday afternoon, Mary Fagin was mutilated and murdered at the pencilmaking company she worked at in Atlanta.________________________________
was accused of her murder.
What was he?
Was he found Guilty or not guilty?
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12. How did the man put on trial for Mary Fagin’s murder die?
___________________________________________________________________
13. Henry Ford, a devout pacifist (a hater of violence) and uber-wealthy founder of the Ford Motor Company
industrial empire believed_______________ were the causes of all wars, and that ________________ were to
blame for everything, including_______________ and
_______________, and he thought it was his duty to expose them.
14. Ford’s privately owned newspaper was called___ ___________________________
and had a circulation of_______________________.
15. David Duke, a politician from Louisiana, was Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
before he ran for office, and he celebrated____________________ birthday.
16. The Reverend Louis Farrakhan blamed_ ____________ for___ __________
problems.
17.If you’re going to be tolerant of people, you have to_____________________ them.
QUALITATIVE RESPONSES (Use notepaper and attach)
What was your initial reaction to the history presented in this video? Compare this with the “comical” History or
America presented in Bowling for Columbine, what does this imply about the United State?
In your opinion, which situation is the most heinous and why?
Expand on two modern day examples of intolerance in the U.S.
Write your view on the following paradox:
How can the United States be both a welcoming country that folds itself into people of all nations and a
rejecting country that really only assimilates (p. 280) select groups?