Question | Answer |
Main pupose of the Rural Electrification Act | to create and improve electric service in rural areas |
Name 3 factors that contributed to the Great Migration | WWI, northern African American newspapers, encouragement of northern African Americans |
One way telephones affected life in the 1800s | people were able to communicate without having to travel |
Name one way the mechanization of farms changed life for rural people | farmers could have larger farms that raised cash crops |
One result of rapid industrialization and urbanization | overcrowded cities |
Name 3 factors that contributed to the growth of cities in the late 1800s | mechanization, immigration, and urbanization |
For what is Susan B. Anthony most famous? | working for women's suffrage (right to vote) |
Name one thing African Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Chinese immigrants had in common in the late 1800s. | They faced prejudice and segregation. |
What was the greatest result of the women's suffrage movement? | Congress passed the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote. |
One thing Jane Addams did to solve problems faced by the city of Chicago. | Opened a settlement house to immigrants & their families |
How did Booker T. Washington respond to discrimination? | He founded Tuskegee Institute, a college for African Americans. |
What effect did the Jim Crow Laws have on the lives of African Americans? | It made racial segregation legal in the South. |
Examples of new rights and educational opportunites gained for women in the 1800s. | Women earned right to vote; some colleges opened doors to women; a woman was elected mayor of one town |
Examples of ways industry in the 1880s gave people greater access to different kinds of goods. | more goods were being produced; goods were less expensive to buy; more stores and mail-order businesses |
Challenges faced by urban areas as a result of population and technological changes. | More garbage and waste; air pollution; diseases spread quickly among people living in overcrowded conditions |