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The graph below illustrates:

• The distribution of population• Americans moved from farms to cities

between 1800 and 2000.

What actions did Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, and Booker T. Washington use to fight for reform in the United States?

• Protests• Civil disobedience• Lobbying• Demonstrations• Signing petitions

All these were used to achieve their goals

Which group of women worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Carrie Chapman Catt

My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth.

• This is a quote from Andrew Carnegie demonstrating that he was not only a robber baron but also a philanthropist.

... I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands ... If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies, we ... will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

• This is part of a letter Abigail Addams wrote to her husband John Addams speaking about the right for women to vote, to have a political voice.

The Image below illustrates:

• Standard Oil Company was allowed to monopolize

• Laissez-faire allowed companies to have too much control

Electric power in the late 19th century had the most dramatic effect on the

following innovations:

• Transportation• Manufacturing methods• American landscape

Why was the telephone considered one of the most economically important

inventions of the nineteenth century?

• Created jobs• Increased communication• Increased business with other parts of the

world

• influencing legislation • methods to achieve political goals•Methods used by women to win the right to vote

All the following complete this graphic organizer

All of the following were significant events in the 1880s:

• Homesteaders made a mad rush for land in Oklahoma

• Rockefeller Oil firm becomes first “trust” 

• Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a runaway hit

• A steel “skyscraper” rises over Chicago 

• A bomb explodes at the Haymarket labor rally