Working for Equal Rights

Chapter 5 Review of Key Ideas, vocab and people 1. During the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, new machines and technologies affected the lives of people in the rural areas of the United States. 2. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, people in American cities found that life was changing as populations grew larger. 3. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, African Americans, along with other racial and ethnic groups, faced lives that were affected by prejudice, segregation, and unequal opportunities. 4. Women hoped to benefit from the spirit of reform that began in the mid 1800s.

Vocabulary: manual labor mechanization reaper threshing machine urbanization tenement settlement house political machine suspension bridge tenant enfranchise Great Migration suffrage suffragist Nineteenth Amendment

1. The mechanization of farms changed the lives of rural people because ______2. Industry in the late 1800s gave people greater access to all kinds of goods in these ways; ______3. Telephone affected life in the 1800s in what way? ______4. What was the purpose of the Rural Electrification Act? ______5. The growth of cities occurred because of these factors: ______6. One result of rapid industrialization and urbanization was that ______7. How did Jane Addams try to solve the problems faced by the city of Chicago? ______8. What is one thing that African Americans, Hispanic groups, Chinese immigrants, and Jews had in common in the late 1800s? ______9. What effect did the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 1880s have on the lives of African Americans? ______10. The challenges faced by urban areas were the result of population and technological change. These challenges were ______11. The factors that caused the Great Migration were ______12. How did Booker T. Washington respond to discrimination and work toward equality? ______13. What happened as a result of the women’s suffrage movement? ______14. List examples of how the new rights and educational opportunities gained for women in the 1800s? ______15. Susan B. Anthony and Anne Dallas Dudley are famous for ______

Match the name with what they did.

A. Booker T. Washington _____ Women’s suffrage in TN B. Ida B. Wells _____ Women’s suffrage movement C. Anne Dallas Dudley _____ A writer who helped start the NAACP D. Susan B. Anthony _____ A writer in TN who fought for equal rights E. George Washington Carver _____ A noted African American scientist F. W.E.B. Du Bois _____ Founded the Tuskegee Institute