Social studies

Primary source

Created during the time period of study of by someone who lived through the time period

Secondary source

Created after the time period of study by someone who has researched other primary and secondary sources

Audience

Who was the document created for.

POV

Based on the Doc, what does the author believe.

Purpose

Why did the author make this document

Bias

When the author aligns themselves with or against a particular group, person, or cause.

Historical context

what happened before this document was created

Lateral reading

Checking if a online source is reliable

13th amendment

Abolished slavery

14th amendment

Citizens must be treated equally

15th amendment

vote cannot be denied due to race

Southern redeemer

People who wished to reverse Reconstruction progress.

Plessy V. Ferguson

Court case that ruled segregation constitutional (separate but equal)

Jim Crow Laws

Legalized racial segregation

W.E.B Dubois

He argued for equality for Black Americans

The NAACP

helped provide scholarships and help Black Americans.

Industrialization

When an economy focuses on manufactioning

Manufacturing

Machines/ factories making goods to be sold

Natural Resources

Big labor force

Infrastructure

Innovation

The four factors of industrilization

Urban

The growth of cities

Rural

The countryside

Tenement

A cramped apartment with poor conditions

Push factors

Reasons why people leave their homes

Pull factors

Reasons why you choose to stay in a new place

Nativism

Belief that values native-born citizens over immigrants

political machine

Organization that gains political power by preforming favors

Capitalism

An economic system in which goods are made, bought, and sold by people and private businesses

Laissez-Faire

Capitalist principle that the government should allow the

economy to run on its own

Monopoly

The sale producer/ business within a single industry

Robber Baron

Negative portrayal of monopolists

Captain of Industry

Positive portrayal of monopolists

Philanthropy

Charity (donating your money for the public good)

Union

Groups of workers who join together to improve their pay, hours, and working conditions

strike

When workers refuse to work to demand better pay,

conditions, or contracts

homestead strike

Strike by steelworkers in

Homestead, Pennsylvania

Muckraker

Exposing problems and wrongdoings to

the public

The progressive Era

A time when people pushed for social and political reform

in America

Jacob Riis

Investigated and exposed poverty and

tenements through photography

Jane Adams

Women's rights advocate