Going West
The Homestead Act gave this many acres for anyone willing to work the land for 5 years.
What is 160 acres?
Power plants, light bulb, phonograph (record player) and over 1000 patents altogether.
Who was Edison?
Steel
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Suffragists like Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt finally got their right to vote thanks to this Amendment
What was the19th?
He wrote The Jungle, which showed the disgusting and disturbing things that were going into people's canned meat.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
These men were looking for freedom out west (and 25% of them were African Americans)
Who were cowboys?
Who as Alexander Graham Bell?
Oil
Who was John D Rockefeller?
Democracy increased when Americans got to elect their two senators with this Amendment.
What was the 17th?
Who was Ida Tarbell?
These people came west looking for gold or silver.
Who were prospectors?
Affordable cars thanks to using the assembly line
Railroads
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This allows citizens to nominate party candidates, not the political party bosses
What are primaries or direct primaries?
This president was known as the trust buster as he broke up over 40 monopolies or trusts.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Native Americans had their land taken away from and were forced to live on these?
What are reservations?
The airplane
Who were the Wright Brothers?
Finance or Banking?
Who was JP Morgan?
A sitting official can be removed with this type of election
What is a recall election?
Lincoln Steffens book, The Shame of the Cities, talked about the political corruption of these organizations.
What were political machines?
What are public schools?
African American who created the longer lasting light bulb
Who was Lewis Latimer?
Hair care products for African American women
Who was Madam CJ Walker?
Citizens vote yes or no to proposed local or state legislation on election day (casinos anyone?)
What is a referendum
The Temperance Movement saw their anti-alcohol belief become reality with this amendment.
What was the 18th?