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what areas of America were most religious?
rural areas
What states were in the bible belt?
Southern states - Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee
How did people on the bible belt see themselves?
righteous, God-fearing Christians
Who viewed themselves as righteous, God-fearing Christians
Fundamentalists
What were many people on the bible belt known as?
Fundamentalists
Where were most fundamentalists located?
bible belt
What were fundamentalists?
Protestants
Who were protestants?
fundamentalists
What did fundamentalists believe
Everything in the bible should be taken literally and not questioned
Who believed everything in the bible should be taken literally and not questioned
Fundamentalists
What did fundamentalists dislike?
Provocative clothes, dancing, gambling and whatever they saw as the general decline in moral standards
Who disliked Provocative clothes, dancing and gambling
fundamentalists
Who was one of the most famous Fundamentalist preachers?
Aimee Semple McPherson
Who was Aimee Semple McPherson?
One of the most famous fundamentalist preachers
Why was Aimee Semple McPherson famous?
She travelled around the USA in the 1920s to raise money for her Four Square Gospel Church.
Who travelled around the USA in the 1920s to raise money for her Four Square Gospel Church.
Aimee Semple McPherson
How much did Aimee Semple McPherson raise? What for and when?
$1.5 million in 1920 for the building of her Angelus Temple
How was the gap in belief between rural and urban Americans clearly seen?
The argument over theory of evolution
Who argued over the theory of evolution?
Rural and urban Americans
Who accepted Charles Darwin’s theory?
People living in towns and cities in the USA
Who didn’t accept Charles Darwin’s theory?
People from rural areas and the Bible belt states
What was Charles Darwin’s theory?
Over millions of years humans evolved from ape like creatures
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