Exam 8: Crowd Violence

While the vast majority of lynching victims were African Americans,other victims were those from the North who came down South to assist the Black population during ______ and White Southerners who sympathized with Reconstruction and efforts to integrate Blacks into Southern society.

Some may be tempted to argue that lynchings were simply a form of ______ justice-that lynch mobs were simply making sure that justice was served in cases where a crime had been committed.

African Americans were the only victims of lynch mobs in the United States.

Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.

Which is the most common type of riot in this country?

Congress attempted to hamper "Black Codes" by passing the Civil Rights Act of ______ that gave Blacks citizenship and full rights,even overcoming a presidential veto to do so.

The 1980 Liberty City riot in ______ was started by the police killing of an unarmed African American who ran a red light.

Discuss the reasoning for race riots increasing across the United States over the last few years.

It is a mistake to see lynchings as spontaneous eruptions of ______,although they were often portrayed as such-especially by many Southern newspapers.Instead,we must recognize that lynching often served some very real social,political,and economic goals.

On April 9,1865,General ______ surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant at Appomattox courthouse and,for all intents and purposes,ended the American Civil War.

Vigilantism can be defined as an organized internal legal movement in which the participants take the law into their own hands.

______ is defined as an extralegal execution by a mob.

______ is the type of vigilantism most often associated with collective violence-targeted as it is with the elimination of crime.

Mob violence-as exemplified by lynchings,vigilantes,and riots-has a short history in this country.

During slavery,lynchings were not used against the slaves because ______.

Many riots throughout history have mostly been responses to ______.

The civil unrest provoked by the shooting forced our nation to confront head on the issue of race and ______.

______,refers to groups that engage in violence in an effort to control the government if it strays from an acceptable course of action and policy.

Sid Heal suggested that there are eight specific psychological factors that serve to lower or remove our prohibitions against violent behavior and thus facilitate individual participation in mob violence.Provide a brief description of three of the eight.

Vigilantes believe that the government does a good job of protecting traditional rights.