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Social Studies
Question | Answer |
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Andrew Carnegie? | created steel company, created |
John D Rockefeller? | created an oil company, almost complete monopoly |
George Westinghouse? | formed Westinghouse electric company using new Technology |
Booker T. Washington ? | founded Tuskegee Institute born into slavery civil rights leader |
Web Du Boise? | Civil rights leader wanted immediate change racial discrimination |
Susan B. Anthony? | fought for women's right to vote ( women's suffrage) |
How did Railroads help the United States economy? | Made transportation faster and easier. |
Why did immigrants come to the United States? | Freedom, needed money for family, and wanted jobs. |
What is Ellis Island? | Immigration station for European immigrants ( off the east coast- of New York). |
What is Angel Island? | Immigration station for Asian immigrants ( off the west coast- San Francisco) |
What caused Labor unions to start? | Poor working conditions, low wages, long hours,and dangerous working conditions. |
What is Mechanization? | using machines to work,working faster required fewer people, more crops , and more money from crops. |
What is Rapid Urbanization and industrialization ? | Cities became over crowded , diseases spread, more jobs , lees space for kids to play. |
What three groups suffered prejudice? | African Americans , Chinese , and Irish. |
How Did the Jim Crow Laws Affect African Americans? | It denied them, and couldn't allow them to vote and have the same rights as men. |
What Was The Great Migration? | African Americans traveled north to find better lives. |
What Was Women's Suffrage What Were Some They Could Now Do? | Some of the New things that women could now do was that they were allowed to vote. |