Key words
Urbanization, commerce
Immigration, Emigration, Migration Nativists v Immigrants Segregated Neighborhoods Rural v Urban Central Business Districts Factory System |
Middle Passage
Cotton Gin cottage industry Eli Whitney Primary, Secondary & Third Industry Mass Production Interchangeable Parts tenements |
More Cycle!
Nat Turner Solomon Northup Frederick Douglas Harriet Tubman zone of proximity central business district |
Slavery
Henry Box Brown - Audio
Focus Questions: Why be afraid? How was control maintained? Describe conditions? How long was the journey? |
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Emancipationhttp://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/
Suffrage
This movement began in the 1800's...
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.1
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.1
1 The United States National Archives and Records. NARA.gov America's Historical Documents. 2014. http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=13&title.raw=19th+Amendment+to+the+U.S.+Constitution:+Women%27s+Right+to+Vote