People Part I
In exchange for passage to New world, these people worked for 4-7years before receiving their freedom
What is Indentured Servants?
A multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary.
What is Tenements?
Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 in which the colonies declared independence from Britain.
What is Declaration of Independence?
Crop that became the key piece in the economic success of the Jamestown colony
What is Tobacco ?
He perfected the incandescent light bulb and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power.
What is Thomas Edison?
Writers who exposed corruption in business
What is Muckracker?
The policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means.
What is Imperialism?
Was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower
What is Mayflower Compact?
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915
What is Lusitania ?
Argued the society progressed because only the fittest survived
What is Charles Darwin?
Leader of the Seneca Falls Convention
What is Susan B. Anthony
Policy that kept the United States out of World War 1 for three years was called
What is Neutrality?
First 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions.
What is Propaganda ?
Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
What is Charles Lindbergh?
Came up with the Fourteen Points.
What is Woodrow Wilson?
An economic system in which nations seek to increase wealth and power by establishing a favorable balance of trade.
What is Mercantilism?
Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if Mexico attacked the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Invented the telephone which opened the way for a worldwide communication network.
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
expressed the belief that racism would end as African-Americans acquired practical work skills and proved their economic value to society
What is Brooker T. Washington?
A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance ?
Law enacted in 1890 that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
Underground to hidden nightclubs where people drank illegally
What is Speakeasies?
He changed unions by forming the American Railway Union, which included skilled and unskilled workers.
What is Eugene V. Debs ?