Social Studies Review 1st semster
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- What were settlement houses??
- neighborhood centers that arose in the late 1800s to offer education, recreation, and social activities to immigrants and poor people
- What is the 18th Amendment?
- prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic
- Who were Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith?
- Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were jazz composers and Bessie Smith was a Blues Singer
- Who was Susan B. Anthony?
- worked for the womens suffrage
- What was the climate/environment like in the Great Plains?
- Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west, Land eroded by wind and water, low rainfall and Frequent dust storms
- How did railroads help businesses after the Civil War?
- it linked resources, products, and market
- How did people adapt to the Great Plains?
- By having technological advances
- What happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
- sitting bull attacked custer
- Why did mills in Pennsylvania need a supply of iron ore?
- because of the steel industry in Pittsburgh
- Who helped immigrants with housing, food and jobs even though they were corrupt?
- The People in Settlement houses
- Why did people's perception of the Great Plains change after the Civil War?
- because of new technological advances people saw the Great Plains not as a 'treeless wasteland' but as a vast area to be settled
- Who was Andrew Carnegie?
- Captains of Industry (Steel)
- Who was Langston Hughes?
- poet who combined the experiences of African American cultural roots
- What was the temperance Movement?
- composed of groups opposed to the making and consuming of alcohol
- What was the reason for the growth of cities?
- specialized industries including steed (Pittsburgh), meat packing (Chicago), movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities
- Who was John D. Rockafeller?
- Captains of industry (oil)
- Who was segregation forced upon?
- African Americans
- In what region of the United States was the cattle raised found?
- In the Great Plains
- Why did people move west?
- New opportunities and tchnological advances led to westward migration following the Civil War
- Where was the textile industry located?
- New England