Worker's Rights
Many people began working in factories, which led to urbanization. What problem arose with so much overcrowding in big cities?
Housing shortages
What are civil rights?
The rights that all people should have under the US constitution
Who was Booker T Washington?
A powerful African American leader
What were the original jobs of women before they gained rights?
They stayed home to cook and clean and take care of the children
What is income tax?
What is a trust?
A group of companies joining together to become more powerful in the work industry
The movement of many African Americans to the North to look for better job opportunities was called...
The Great Migration
Who was George Washington Carver?
He was an agricultural inventor who taught science and agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute
What event allowed women to step into the workforce?
The start of WWI and men entering the war
What caused the income tax in the US?
The government starting to help citizens more
What was the problem with trusts?
They controlled industries, grew larger, and did not pay attention to the worker and their rights.
What was segregation?
The separation of white people and African Americans in all settings
What did Mary McCloud Bethune do for civil rights?
Made a school for African American girls in Florida
Who were the leaders of the women's suffrage movement?
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What was the call for people to stop drinking alcohol called?
Temperance
Define strike and boycott.
Strike - workers refusing to work until working conditions improved, boycott - agreeing not to buy good from a company until they make better working conditions
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws that made segregation legal and restricted African Americans from voting
What were the main goals of Booker T Washington?
To help all African Americans get a good education
What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote
What was Mary Harris "Mother" Jones known for?
Helping coal minders in Pennsylvania unionize
What did President Theodore Roosevelt think about trusts?
He did not support them and broke up the large trusts.
What was the result of the Great Migration?
Northern cities became larger in population and embraced African American culture.
Why was it so powerful to see Booker T Washington become such a strong African American leader?
Because he was once a slave
What was one way that the women's suffrage movement made progress BEFORE the 19th Amendment?
15 women were elected to congress
What did muckrakers do?
Exposed the harsh and unfair working conditions in factories in the US by publishing books and photographs