Vocab beginning with S
The residential area on the outskirts of a city is called this...
What is suburb?
An investigative or undercover journalist who reports on illegal or immoral activities
What is a muckraker?
The man who invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What is 1919?
A Cowhand's job along a cattle drive is dangerous due to weather conditions, wolves/ coyotes, fatigue, and this...
What is a stampede?
The legal separation of Whites and Blacks in the southern states
What is segregation?
Making large amounts of a product quickly and cheaply
What is mass production?
The man who invented things like the light bulb and movie projector
The US Constitutional Amendment giving Women the right to vote was this number.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was a large project to build a train track from both ends of the country to meet near the middle in Utah.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
An unsafe factory where people work long hours for low pay
What is a sweatshop?
What is a reservation?
The woman who was famous for helping people escape slavery through the Underground Railroad
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The US Constitutional Amendment that officially started Prohibition
What was the 18th Amendment?
The moving assembly line was first used most effectively by this automobile creator.
Who was Henry Ford?
The refusal by workers to do any work unless their demands are met
What is a strike?
A person who is against immigration
What is a nativist?
The 16th President of the United States who is known for ending the practice of Slavery
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The reason why most new immigrants on the east coast of the USA lived in urban/city areas during the early 1900's
What was the big demand for skilled workers?
This group of immigrants were treated very poorly during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, and were given the most dangerous jobs using explosives.
Who were the Chinese?
A person who worked for Women's rights to vote
What is a suffragist?
The end of manufacturing, selling and consuming of alcoholic beverages
What is Prohibition?
The 26th President of the United States known for his service in the Rough Riders, creating the Panama Canal, and preserving land through the National Parks Program.
Who was Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
By the early 1900's many factory workers began to join these groups to help them battle unsafe working conditions and unfair pay.
What are labor unions?
Before labor unions were allowed to form for the railroad workers, working conditions were terrible and their pay would be cut during bad economic times, which caused the workers to rebel, destroy property and ultimately do this