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A group set up in 1869 to work for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.
What is the National Women Suffrage Association.
Members of the National Woman Suffrage association.
Who are:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
A tall building with many floors supported by a lightweight steel frame
What is a skyscraper
Some places in central park
What are zoos, gardens, carousels, and skating rinks
This was the location for the first American Subway/Underground electric railway
What is Boston
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Where did women win the right to vote first and which direction was this in?
They first won the right to vote in Wyoming which is a western state.
America's most popular sport
What is baseball
The definition of Ragtime
What is a form of popular music of the late 1800s and early 1900s that had a lively rhythmic sound.
A detailed description of how basketball began
What is in 1891 James Naismith Taught Physical education at Y.M.C.A. he nailed 2 bushel baskets to gym walls. People started throwing soccer balls into baskets. It spread causing it to become a well known sport.
This was a requirement that states that children attend school to a certain grade or age
What is Compulsory Education
A woman who went into saloons swinging a hatchet and smashed things because her husband died from too much drinking.
Who was Carrie Nation
The 17 Amendment
The 18th Amendment
The 19th Amendment
What are:
The direct election of senators
Selling or making alcoholic is illegal
gave women the right to vote
The definition of department store
what is a large retail store offering a variety of goods organized in separate departments.
The description for Vaudeville
What is a type of variety show made popular in the late 1800s that included comedians, song and dance routines, and acrobats.
The definition of Church that is used in this chapter
What is Parochial
A detailed description of the Gentlemen's Agreement
What is Japanese were barred from owning land and other economic pursuits. This Agreement stated that Japan would stop any more workers from going to the U.S. But the U.S. would allow Japanese women to join their husbands and children who were already in the U.S. Anti Japanese feeling didn't decrease with this agreement.
The definition of prohibition
What is the movement to ban alcohol production and sales in the U.S.
Define yellow journalism
Define local color
What is a Mexican mutual aid group
What is the speech and habits of a particular region.
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Describe what Newspapers talked about and the problems with them.
Newspapers featured stories about local government, businesses, fashion, and Sports. The problem was that Critics complained that the papers offered less news and more scandal every day. They called this Yellow Journalism
The definition of Women's Christian Temperance Union
The definition of N.A.A.P.
The definition of dime novel
The definition of realist
What is a group that worked to ban the sale of liquor in the U.S.
An organization that works towards equal rights for African Americans
A low priced paperback with an adventure theme
a writer who aims to show life as it really is
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Compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington Spoke for African Americans. He wanted blacks and whites to live in harmony. Felt that They must work patiently to move up in society so he urged them to learn trades to Earn money. W.E.B. DuBois agreed on the view for thrift, patience, and industrial training. Instead of accepting discrimination he urged black to fight it actively. He organized the N.A.A.P.
The description of the Society of American Indians
What is that after Reconstruction in the south these people This society of American Indians worked for social Justice and tried to push American Indians into the American Mainstream.
The definition of barrio
The definition of lynch
The definition of suffragist
What is a Mexican neighborhood in the U.S.
What is a mob illegally seizing and killing someone.
What is a person who worked for women's right to vote.
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List 2 forms of entertainment and explain each one
Railroads brought circuses, acting companies and wild west shows. Large cities organized Symphony orchestras. This was mostly for the wealthy. Others went to Vaudeville shows.
People wrote music. People invented ragtime music and military music. John Philip Sousa wrote more than 100 marches which became favorites when people were celebrating the fourth of July.
The description of Mark Twain
What is Mark Twain was the pen name for Samuel Clemens. His first success was in 1865. He used local color to make his stories more realistic. His stories included The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country, Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer