Midterm III
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- Farm laborors
- Left for the city to work in industry after mechanization (the reaper) reduced labor needs
- Battleship Maine
- Sunk off the coast of Cuba. The U.S. blamed the Spanish and used it as an excuse to declare war on Spain
- Mail Order
- Changed farm life after the Civil War by providing access to consumer goods through this
- 18th Ammendment
- Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages
- Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico
- U.S. gained possessions as result of the Spanish American War
- Workplace Reforms
- Brought about by Progressive Movement; Improved safety, Reduced work hours, Restrictions on child labor
- 19th Ammendment
- Adopted in 1920, gave women the right to vote
- 1920
- The year in which the 19th ammendment was adopted
- Mechanization (the reaper)
- Changed farm life after the Civil war by reducing farm labor needs and increasing production
- Susan B. Anthony
- Worked for women's suffrage, leader of woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
- Progressive Movement reformers
- Wanted laws to protect workers and poor people, to reform government and to regulate business
- Cuba and the Philippines
- Where did the fighting take place during the Spanish American War?
- Yellow journalism
- Reporters covering the Spanish American War exaggerated Spanish atrocities in order to sell newspapers
- World power
- The U.S. emerged as this as a result of victory over Spain in the Spanish American War