Life in 1900
A tax to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This man patented the light bulb in 1880.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This is when cars became became more popular.
What is when the assembly line was used?
What is overcropping?
This is when America entered World War 1.
What is April 2, 1917?
The new state constitution made it more difficult for these 2 groups to vote.
What are black people and poor people?
Power that is generated by water.
What is hydroelectric?
This man invented the first automobile in Germany.
Who is Karl Benz?
This scientist wanted to help farmers learn to farm scientifically.
Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?
The side of WW 1 with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
What were the Central Powers.
This is where most people lived in the early 1900s.
What is rural areas?
This company built dams on Alabama's rivers to produce electricity.
What is the Alabama Power Company?
In 1896, this man made the his first car on the assembly line in Detroit, Michigan.
Who is Henry Ford?
This was the main crop in Alabama in the early 1900s.
What is cotton?
When the government requires people to serve in the military.
What is the draft?
The Constitution of 1901 said that in order to vote, a person must meet these 5 criteria.
What is be a man, at least 21 years old, ab able to read and write, explain part of the US Constitution, and pay a poll tax?
This is a document registering an invention with the government. It gives the inventor the sole right to sell his or her product.
What is a patent?
These brothers flew the first airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
This insect destroyed cotton crops and caused farmers to quit growing cotton.
What is the boll weevil?
Three types of weapons used in WW 1.
What are tanks, airplanes, and poison gases.
The new constitution was written in this year.
What is 1901?
Three inventions that changed peoples lives in the early 1900s.
What is the camera, the typewriter, and the telephone.
Some students rode this to get to school each day.
What is the railroad or trains?
This is the separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
These are 3 ways that Alabamians helped during the war.
What are building munitions, shipbuilding, and making cloth at textile mills for the soldiers