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social studies pca
rural life, uneaquality, etc.
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History
5th Grade
01/10/2009

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cyrus mccormick invented what?
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the electric reaper
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what helped seperate grain from stalks?
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the threashing machine
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L.O. Colvin and Gustavde Laval's inventions helped farms that produced __.
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milk
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eaiseir farm work meant bigger farms and the planting of
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cash crops
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industry provided a variety of goods that were ____ _______ than the past
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less expensive
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shoppers in rural areas could get these goods through
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mail-order (catalogs)
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what were rural areas slow to get?
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TELEPHONES :)
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farmers in ________________,_________ were first to show how rural people can set up their own phone system
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Ahwhnee Valley, California
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what made electricity widley avabile?
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the building of power stations
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the federal goverment helped rural areas get electricity in 1936 with the _______________________.
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rural electrification act
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how did changes on the farm help lead to the growth of cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
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new machines were able to do things so less people needed to live on farms.
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how did jane addams try tohelp urban residents in the late 1800s and the early 1900s?
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she built a settlement to help families who were poor.
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give 2 examples facing urban immagrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
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tenements, transportation, and prejudice
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how did the devolopment of steel help changethelook of cities in thelate 1800s and early 1900s?
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it made skyscarpers, bridges, and elevators. and it also made it look more fancier
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give 6 ways telling how booker t. washington was different from w.e.b. de bois.
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Booker T.

1. born on a Virgina plantation

2. did'nt go to school

3. carried books for his mistress

4. went to hampton institute for former slaves

5. thought education and job training would help blacks become equal

6. started tuskegee institute

 

 

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give 6 ways w.e.b. du bois was different than booker t washington.
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W.E.B. DeBois

1. born in massachutsets

2. was not a slave

3. went to school with whites

4. went to fisk university

5. started the NAACP

6. thought equality should come immeadeatley

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how were booker t washington and web deboys both a like????????
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both were african americans

and

both wanted equality forblacks

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the system by african americans and whites were seperated in public places
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racial segregation
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law passed in congress in 1882 to limit immagration on the basis of race
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Chinese Exclution Act
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an orginazation that sought the immeadete end to racial discrimination in the early 1900s
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NAACP
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a noted african american scientest who organizazied <-(?) the agriculture department at the tuskegee institute
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George Washington Carver
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the system by which African Americans recieved the use of land in return for a share of their crop
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sharecropping
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the first african american disc jockey in the U.S.
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Jack L. Cooper
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an african american who fought segrigation and established voting rights for African American women
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ida wells-barnett
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helped found tuskegee institute and worked to improve the lives of african americans
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booker t. washington
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Challenged a Jim Crow Law which helped lead to a famous supreme court case of the late 1800s
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Homer Plessy
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a writer and editor who helped start the NAACP
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W.E.B. Debois
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in the 1800s womens opportunities and rights (did or did not) equal those of men.
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did not
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in 1848 womens rights leaders Lucretia Mott and elizabeth cadt stanton invited people to gether in (seneca falls, new york or arigona, kansas) to discuss womens rights
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seneca falls, new york
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the most contreversal idea of the convention women should be able to (vote or own property)
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VoTe! :)
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Suffragist (lucy stone or carie chapman catt) founded the american woman suffrage associtation in 1870.
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luct stone
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women came closer to to having equality in (urban or rural) areas.
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rural
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the first woman mayor in the u.s.was (susannah medora salter or susan b. anthoney) 

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susannah medora salter
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(susan b. anthony or marguerite harrison) who worked for womens rights until her death in 1906 said that "there will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
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hello everyone from pca good luck!

love KAylA BroWN

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bye (:
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