#1 Word of the Day
What group of countries make up Great Britain
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
This French term, meaning "leave it be," describes an economic philosophy by minimizing government involvement in business.
What is laissez faire?
What is it called when a country forcibly takes over another country to increase its wealth?
What is Imperialism?
Examples of Primary sources.
What are paintings, clothing, speaches, documentaries, autobiographies?
What were the people called that came to the Americans in the 1600's?
What are Pilgrims?
The opposite of urban.
What is rural?
Why did the Pilgrims come to the Americas?
The Pilgrims came to the Americas to have religious freedoms.
"This invention, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, revolutionized the cotton industry by speeding up the process of separating seeds from cotton fiber."
What is the cotton gin?
What act placed taxes on newspapers, playing cards, dice, and pamphlets?
The Stamp Act
"This term describes the transition from products being crafted by hand to being mass-produced by machines in factories."
What is industrialization?
1770 Boston Several colonists were killed after a mob of colonists called the British soldiers names.
What was the Boston Massacre?
"These laws, enacted in the Southern U.S. after the Civil War, aimed to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans and maintain a labor force similar to slavery."
What are the Black Codes?
1773 Boston Why did the colonists throw tea into the Boston Harbor?
They did not want to pay the taxes on the tea.
"This system of laws and customs enforced racial segregation and disenfranchised African Americans in the Southern U.S. from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century."
What is Jim Crow?
1774 Examples: Not allowed to have town meetings,
closed Boston Harbor so the colonists could not receive or ship goods
colonists would have to quarter British soldiers in their homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts?
"This white supremacist organization, founded in 1865, used terror and violence to oppose the rights and political participation of African Americans during Reconstruction and beyond."
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
1775 - 1783 - Increased taxes on goods, more British control over the colonists led to
What was the Revolutionary War?
"During early industrialization, factory workers often faced harsh conditions, long hours, low wages, unsafe environments and used child labor."
What are poor working conditions?
1776 A written document sent to England requesting separation from England because of taxation without representation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These were created to help protect workers from long hours, low pay and poor working conditions.
What are labor unions?