Industrial Revolution
The man who invented the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Work, especially manual work
What is labor?
Accounts of events created by those who were involved in the event.
What is a Primary Source?
An organization designed to empower African Americans. It was co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois.
What is the NAACP?
She founded the Hull House.
A radical, sometimes anarchist labor group.
What is the IWW or the Wobblies?
The type of society that includes farming, or cultivated land.
What is agrarian?
Holding favor towards particular people, things, or groups.
What is bias?
The amendment that gave women the right to the vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
A man who committed his life to improving education for all.
Who is Horace Mann?
1870-1900
What are the years of The Progressive Era?
A labor riot that ended when a someone threw a bomb at the police.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Accounts of events by people not directly involved. These include secondhand accounts and historians writing about the period years later.
What is a Secondary Source?
What is muckraking?
The writer of The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
A steel magnate who wrote The Gospel of Wealth
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A French term that literally means "hands off". It was used to describe government practices that let businesses without much government interference.
What is laissez faire?
The words that O.P.T.I.C. stands for.
What is overview, parts, title, interrelationships, conclusion?
Laws that discriminated against black people. They inhibited voting rights and contributed to upholding segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The President who signed the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
He was involved with the Civil Rights and Labor Movements. It included the National Brotherhood of Workers in American and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph
The idea that America should stretch from coast to coast which led to Western explorations and more railroads.
The words that S.O.A.P.S stands for.
What is Subject, Occassion, Audience, Purpose, Significance?
An act designed to prevent trusts and corruption in businesses.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act.Clayton Antitrust Act?
The woman who wrote What Every Girl Should Know.
Who is Margaret Sanger?