Chapter 5 Study Guide Questions and Answers Vocabulary

Chapter 5: Study Guide Questions and Answers

Vocabulary • Mechanization-Using machines to do work. • Manual labor- Work done by hand without machines. • Urbanization- Movement of people from rural areas to cities. • Settlement house- Center that provides help for immigrants and the poor. • Tenement-Building, especially in a poor section of a city, divided into small apartments. • Suffrage-Right to vote. • Suffragist-Person working for women’s voting rights. • Nineteenth Amendment-Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1920, that gave women the right to vote.

1. How did the mechanization of farms change the lives of rural people in the 1800 s and 1900 s? • It led to larger farms that raised cash crops

2. What are examples of how industry in the late 1800 s gave people greater access to all kinds of goods? • Goods were being invented and produced, goods were less expensive than before, and stores increased in number

3. In what ways did telephones affect life in the 1800 s? • People were pleased to be able to communicated without having to travel.

4. What was the main purpose of the Rural Electrification Act? • To create and improve electric services in rural areas

5. What are factors in the growth of cities in the late 1800 s? • Mechanization, immigration, and urbanization

6. What was one result of rapid industrialization and urbanization? • Cities became overcrowded

7. What were the challenges faced by urban areas as a result of the population and technological changes? • More garbage and waste, air pollution, and diseases spread.

8. How did Jane Addams try to solve some of the problems faced by the city of Chicago? • She opened a settlement house to help immigrants and working families.

9. What is one thing that African Americans, Hispanic groups, Chinese immigrants, and Jews had in common in the late 1800 s? • Many faced prejudice and segregation in different areas of their lives.

10. What effect did the passage of the Jim Crow laws in the 1880 s have on the lives of African Americans? • It made racial segregation legal in the South.

11. What are the factors in the Great Migration? • Northern African American newspapers, encouragement of the northern African Americans, and World War I

12. How did African American activist Booker T. Washington respond to discrimination and work toward equality? • He founded Tuskegee Institute, a college for African Americans.

13. What happened as a result of the women’s suffrage movement? • Congress passed the 19 th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

14. What are examples of the new rights and educational opportunities gained for women in the 1800 s? • The right to vote, could go to some colleges, and a woman was elected mayor of a town.

15. For what is Susan B. Anthony most famous? • Working for women’s suffrage