Urbanization
What was the phenomena called whereby massive numbers of people would move to an area?
Urbanization
What did mass production result in?
Growth of industry and assembly lines.
What was the most popular sport and only sport people cared about?
Baseball
Thomas Edison
What job did many African Americans have?
Sharecropping
Who lived in tenements? Name 1.
Factory workers, poor, immigrants
What did women do in factories?
Sewing and making clothes
Why did baseball become so popular? Name 1.
Urbanization, mass transit, industry, extra money to spend.
The new inventions could be responsible for what? Name 1.
lights in factories, skyscrapers, lights in tenements, etc.
What were the barriers of voting?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What was the biggest city?
New York
Who was the photographer who documented the life of the poor and factory workers?
Jacob Riis
How did people get to baseball games?
Mass transit
What was the impact of the inventions?
More disposable income, rapid industrialization, new middle class, new building techniques.
What case said that "separate but equal" was legal?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Where were tenements located?
Lower East side of NYC
Who would fight for better wages and work conditions?
Where did the games get reported the next day?
Newspaper
What invention led to skyscrapers?
elevators.
Who were the African Americans who moved to Kansas called?
Exodusters.
Why did people move to the cities?
More economic opportunities.
What was the economic system of the time and still is today?
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
In addition to sports what other things could people spend money on? Name 1.
Museums, saloons, dance halls
What was highly celebrated for growth?
Progress
Who were the 2 African American rivals who had different viewpoints on how to gain civil rights?
W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington