Segregation
Court case where buddy wanted to ride the segregated train?
Plessy V Ferguson
Would you rather live in the starting town or the ending city
Which common mode of transportation was invented at this era
Model T (Car)
How did we produce things before factories?
Artisans (working by hand)
Where in the US was he born? (hint, the warriors are from there)
Cali
Plessy was practicing civil disobedience. What's that?
You purposely don't follow the laws to get in trouble and then try and change the laws in the courts
How did the homes of the poor people change?
Went from living in simple homes to tenaments
What's the name for the wealthy people who owned lots of railroads?
Robber Barons
Why were children hired in factories (2 reasons)
Smaller fingers
Cheaper pay
Age?
37
What did poll tests do?
Pass questions that the poll worker would grade, usually he would pass the white people who tried to vote
Where did the factories have to be located?
Near a river / source of water
Which resource needs to be mined and is used for engines
Coal
How did workers respond to their conditions in factories?
Many joined unions and tried to fight for better pay
What did he do before music?
AT&T salesman and a Subway sandwich artist.
What's the Grandfather Clause?
You can only vote if your grandparents voted
Why did we need more hospitals at the end of the project?
People getting injured in factories
Which resource helped them build railroad tracks (it's also found in most large buildings)
Describe Tenements
Like a small apartment building but worse. Cramped, dirty, unsafe, lots of diseases spreading
Real Name
Christopher Francis Ocean, but he was born Christopher Breaux
What did the Supreme court decide in Plessy V Ferguson?
That segregation was ok (7-1 decision)
Name one thing that only existed at the end of the project
Street lights, jails, more pubs, mansions for the rich people
During the industrial revolution, where in the USA were we building lots of new railroads?
In the new states on the West
What happened when workers unions went on strike?
They rioted sometimes. Mostly they got shut down like in the Pullman strike and Haymarket affair and workers got killed.
His dog