Mills
What was an economic reason that child labor was so popular in poor mill towns?
What other labor system was sharecropping similar to?
Slavery.
What is the word for the era where we banned alcohol in the U.S.?
Prohibition.
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
The 19th Amendment.
True or false: The South industrialized (got industry) faster than the North.
False. The South industrialized a little, but was way behind the North.
What was produced in southern mills, like the ones all over Greenville?
Textiles/Fabric.
What did Farmers' Alliances do?
Spoken up for farmers.
What do we call journalists/writers/photographers/etc. who exposed evil/corrupt business and political practices?
Muckrakers.
What do we call the right to vote?
Suffrage.
What was the name of the bug that ate up a lot of the cotton grown in the South during the early 1900s?
The boll weevil.
What kind of people tended to work in textile mills?
Poor white people (poor black people tended to sharecrop, though sometimes there was crossover).
What was one of the crops we turned to in the South to diversify/replace the overproduction of cotton?
Peaches.
Name something labor unions worked for.
What is one tactic women used to get their right to vote?
Hunger strikes, protests, calling politicians names, writing articles, demonstrating, etc.
True or false: the South had issues with immigrants coming in and working in bad conditions in factories.
False. This was an issue for the North (think of the diversity of New York City), not the South.
The textile mills are connected to what plant that was popularly grown in the South?
Cotton.
What type of laws (c___ l___) allowed banks/merchants to claim future crops from those that owed money?
The FDA stands for the:
Food and Drug Administration.
Why were women, in particular, interested in banning alcohol?
What are the 1920s known as?
The Roaring '20s.
True or false: Workers' lives surrounded the company they worked for - they lived in houses owned by the company, bought from the company store, etc.
True.
Tenant farming.
Name something Populist party accomplished.
Income tax, direct voting for senators, etc.
What was the name of the movement for banning alcohol that was run by Christian women?
The Temperance Movement.
Land grant colleges focused on what two areas of learning?
Agriculture and manufacturing.