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Chap 5 Social S J776
chapter 5 social studies vocab and other questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| manual labor | jobs done by hand |
| mechanization | using machines to do work |
| reaper | a machine that cuts weat |
| richard sears and alvah c roebuck | created to mail order catolog |
| cities near good transportation | grew faster |
| urbanization | the movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| jane adams | created a settlement house |
| political machine | is an organization of people who control votes to gain political power |
| elisha graves otis | created the first safety elevator |
| john roebling | was assigned to create a suspension bridge |
| tenant | someone who pays rent to use land or buildings that belong to someone else |
| enfranchised | having the right to vote |
| the chicago defender | a newspaper that encouraged african americans to come to the north |
| the great migration | the movement of more than a million african americans to the north |
| jack l cooper | the first african american disc jockey |
| w.e.b du bois | a person who helped start the naacpthe association's main goal was to stop racial discrimination |
| booker t washington | created a school for african americans called the tuskegee institute |
| george washington carver | joined booker t washington and agreed with him |
| ida wells barnett | she helped start an african american newspaper |
| how did the mechanization of farms change the lives of rural people in the 2800s and early 1900s? | people that worked on big farms didn't have to any more because the machines could do most of the work now |
| give 3 examples of how industry in the late 1800s gave piople greater access to all kinds of goods | the mail order catolog, milking machine, and telephones |
| explain how telephones effected life in the 1800s | telephones were put up in more places such as businesses, homes, and rural areas. you didn't have to travel to talk to anyone anymore |
| what was the main purpose of the rural electrification act? | the goverment to be able to lend money to place that needed more electricity |
| name 3 factors that led to the growth of cities in the late 1800s | the skyskraper, elevator, and subway |
| list 3 factors that caused african americans to move north | better education, better jobs, and greater rights |
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