Chapter 5 Lesson 1 The Dawn of a New Century -
Tennessee Through Time; The Later Years, pub. Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, 2008
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- Panama Canal
- Opened in 1914 and cut the boat trip from New York to San Francisco by more than 18,000 miles.
- Hawaii
- Became a U.S. territory in 1898
- Edward Ward Carmack
- Senator and editor of The Nashville Tennesseean newspaper who in 1908 was murdered in the streets of Nashville. The state prohibition law which stopped the sale of liquor was named after him.
- Seamstress
- a woman who sews
- Boycott
- to stop buying something in order to make a point.
- Alaska
- Originally referred to as Seward's folly, was later found to be rich in natural resources such as gold, fish, oil, natural gas, coal, and timber.
- Texile
- cloth
- Theodore Roosevelt
- President of the United States after President McKinley died. He was the youngest man to become President, had six children and a pony. He believed in the National Park System and conservation of our natural resources.
- Stockyard
- a temporary holding place for animals that would be slaughtered
- Utility
- public services, such as telephone or electricity
- Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
- Led a group of women to ask the Memphis school board to give women teachers the same pay as male teachers.
- Emma Rochelle Wheeler
- Graduated from Meharry Medical College and with her husband opened a hospital that was owned, operated, and staffed by African Americans. She delivered over 2,000 babies in 48 years!
- Editorial
- an article that presents the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors.
- Sallie Hill Sawyer
- The first "mother" in the Bethlehem settlement house in Nashville, TN.
- Lizzie Crozier French
- organized the first women's club in Tennessee where they would talk about politics and the need for reform.
- Settlement house
- a shelter organized to help immigrants and other people adjust to life in United States cities
- Labor laws
- laws that made sure people were paid enough money to live on, limited he number of hours each person could work, and created safer working conditions.
- William Seward
- Secretary of State who purchased the Alaskan territory from Russia for $7 million
- Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel
- at 13 yrs. Old, owned the first registered distillery in the United States and is the oldest one that still makes whiskey today. He never got married or had children.
- Pardon
- to excuse people from crimes they commit
- Corruption
- dishonest practices; the state of lacking integrity
- Jane Addams
- Organized the Hull House settlement house in Chicago to help immigrants and other poor people adjust to life in U.S. cities.
- Distillery
- a place where liquor is made
- Industrialization
- the act of converting to the ideas and practices of industry
- Conservation
- the act of preserving and restoring natural resources
- Jim Crow laws
- social and cultural rules that promoted discrimination against blacks
- Randolph Miller
- Freed slave that published The Chattanooga Blade newspaper