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Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott
Who are two famous women who worked towards the Women's suffrage movement by traveling and speaking to others on women's rights? (There is more than two but just name at least 2)
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Settlment House
This term is used to desrcibe a center that provides help for those who have little money. Jane Addams developed one in Chicago called the Hull House where she taught English to immigrants, feed, and provided day car to working families.
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People could communicate with others without having to travel.
How did telephones affect life in the 1800's especially for people on farms?
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W.E.B Du Bois Booker T. Washington
These two African American men fought against disrcimination.
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student will demonstrate the frustration of African Americans who believed seperate but equal was unfair and not equal to their white peers.
Role Play- How do you react if you are an African American who has just been told they can't ride on a car because "seperate but equal" is legal.
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Jane Addams
This famous lady started a settlement house, called the Hull house. This house was opened to help immigrant and working families.
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The Great Migration
This term described more than 1 million African Americans migrating North for jobs working in factories. These jobs were posted in newspapers urging African Americans North ,and due to the United States preparing for World War 1 many factories had openings to help produce weapons and miliatary supplies.
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Cities became overcrowded
Due to urbanization and industrialization, what happened in the cities?
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Women's suffrage Movement or Women's Rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott all fought for what?
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Urbanization- jobs, persuasive newspapers promising jobs and better living condiditons, machines have taken over your current job on the farm
Tell us why you would leave the farms and move to the city either as an African American or as a worker.
300
Tuskeegee Institute OR College for African Americans
Booker T. Washington, born a slave, tried to beat discrimination among African Americans by starting what?
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Mechanicization
This term desrcibed farmers who used machines to farm. This lead to greater farms producing cash crops and decreased the need for laborers.
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Agricultural Depression- there was an INCREASE in agriculture during this time because of the machines.
Which of these DID lead to a population growth in the cities? A. Agricultural depression B. Mechanization C. Immigration D. Urbanization
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segregation and prejudices from others
Immigrants of all races- Chinese, Jewish, Hispanic, and African American's all faced what in their jobs and daily life?
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Pass the 19th amendment- Give the right to vote to women- Let us own land and vote for presidents!!
Role Play- Act out how you would respond the the women's suffrage movement with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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The telephone
This invention, by Alexander Graham Bell, allowed people living on farms to be able to communicate with others without having them travel.
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To create and improve electric service in rural areas. (telephone poles, lines, and telephones installed in homes)
What was the purpose of the Rural Electrification Act?
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It made racial segreation legal- it was upheld in the supreme court that segreation on buses, schools, theatres, parks, etc was legal.
Plessy VS. Fergueson supported the Jim Crow Laws. What did this mean for African Americans?
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What is the Jim Crow Laws.
He was 1/8 African American and tried getting on a white railroad car, but was told to get off- when he refused and was arrested he took his case to the supreme court where they upheld these laws.
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Over joyed over the addition of the telephone to call familiy without traveling to the city, mail order cat. allow for new appliances and conviences you didn't have before and machines make work easier with less men and less hours.
Role Play- act like a farmers wife who has just recieved mail order catalogs, a telephone, and machines for her family's farm.
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W.E.B Du Bois
This African American was raised free and attended a white school. When he attended Fisk University in Nashville, TN he first discovered discrimination and thought it needed an immediate change.
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The passing of the 19th amendment- giving the right to vote to women.
What was the result of the women's suffrage movement?
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Colleges open to women and African American- Tuskegee and Fisk for example Women could vote because of the 19th amendment Women could be elected into office like Esther Morris! African Americans and Women could work in the same factories as others
In the 1800s new rights and educational opportunites where being made for women and African Americans....give some examples of these changes.
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Urbanization
During mechanization on farms, workers and laborers on farms moved to cities due to machines taking their place. This is the term for this movement.
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Machines like the reaper, threshing machine, milking machine made manual labor easier- taking less time and needing fewer people to work in the fields because of this many workers moved to the cities during urbanization. Positives as a farmer were that you didn't have to spend money on workers & made more money on your cash crops.
Role Play- Act like you are a farmer who has to fire his employees because of the new machines you have- why do you no longer need him?