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.

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? ___________________________________________________
Name: _____________________________________ Period: _______ Date: ______________________

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 pencil-
making company she worked at in Atlanta. ________________________________
was accused of her murder.
What was he?

Was he found Guilty or not guilty?

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 Jews 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.