Rural Life Changes
Life in Growing Cities
Unequal Opportunities
Women's Rights
Vocabulary
100
It was too expensive for the telephone company to supply service in rural areas.
What is why did Alexander Graham Bell's company supply telephone service to many cities but few rural areas in the 1890s?
100
An organization that controls votes in order to gain political power
What is a political machine?
100
Falling crop prices and high interest rates made it difficult for sharecroppers to get out of debt.
What were the two problems that contributed to the financial difficulties that sharecroppers faced after the Civil War?
100
the Wyoming Territory
What is where in the US women were first granted the right to vote?
100
a bridge supported by steel cables
What is a suspension bridge?
200
This mechanized machine could cut the same amount of wheat as 16 men could cut by manual labor.
What is the reaper?
200
influenza
What is the disease that killed over 500,000 Americans in 1918 as a result of overcrowding?
200
Life improved for some, but they still faced discrimination.
What is how did life in the North differ from life in the South for many African Americans?
200
Many colleges began admitting women.
What is what opportunity enabled women to explore and pursue new careers in the late 1800s?
200
work performed by hand
What is manual labor?
300
This made cleaning clothes faster, easier, and got the clothes cleaner.
What is ways the electric washing machine improved the job of doing laundry after the turn of the century.
300
to create parks and playgrounds for city dwellers
What was the goal of the "city beautiful" movement that began in the late 1800s?
300
It was legal to have "separate by equal" public institutions and facilities.
What was included in the racial segregation laws of the 1880s?
300
Men and women performed the same work in rural areas.
What is why a woman living in a rural area in the early 1900s was treated more as a man's equal than a woman living in the city?
300
gave women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
400
Many Americans could not travel to large cities to shop.
What is why the mail-order business was so popular in America in the late 1800s?
400
A fire destroyed all of the downtown area, leaving space for new buildings.
What is why Chicago was the perfect city to build the first skyscraper?
400
Both were formerly enslaved, valued education, and knew that training was the key to African American advancement.
Who are Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver?
400
A women's rights leader who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls women's rights convention in 1848.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
400
using machines to do work
What is mechanization?
500
wind, water, and machine
What are the other sources of power farmers relied on before the Rural Electrification Act?
500
steel bridges and subways
What are two inventions in the area of transportation that allowed cities to expan their outward boundaries?
500
He challenged a Jim Crow Law, which helped lead to a famous Supreme Court case of the late 1800s
Who is Homer Plessy?
500
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
500
a place where needy people receive assistance
What is a settlement house?
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