All Categories
Uncategorized
Explore questions in the Uncategorized category that you can ask Spark.E!
- By the 1870s, this political part had retaken power in most Appalachian states and instituted policies that sanctioned racial violence, reduced government spending, and voting restrictions for African Americans and poor people
- True or False? Most company towns were segregated by race?
- ____ was a form of currency issued by coal companies and only redeemable at the company store.
- who pursued national goals and a society with defined classes
- In the early years of the Great Depression, this private organization had many local chapters in Appalachia and helped distribute goods and supplies to struggling families. President Hoover also supported this organization
- Anthracite production peaked during which time in US history
- This was moslty responsible for more than 30 percent decline in the number of Appalachian miners between 1950 and 1960
- 95 percent of the country's anthracite (high-quality coal) lay below a five county area in this state and employed more than 175,000 men during World War I
- who pursued a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- After the expulsion of most of Corbin's African Americans, the 1920 US Census recorded how many African Americans still lliving in the city
- who was appointed prime minister of italy and also led the march on rome
- African American workers were crucial to success of which industry in Corbin, Kentucky
- Slavery Appalachia was abolished right after the Civil War began
- _____ became Appalachia's most important natural resource after the arrival of railroads in the late-nineteenth century
- ______ is the study of workers, unions, and their relationship with employers
- who led nationalist in a revolt supported by Mussolini and Hitler
- The federal government officially recognized this new state in 1863 after its convention approved an amendment to emancipate its slaves
- Capitalism was maintained but what were workers forbidden to do in Italy
- Towns such as Asheville, North Carolina the Tennessee tribe-city area grew rapidly after the arrival of railroads in the 1880s and, according to Lewis, are examples of _____
- According to McKinney, most southern Appalachians supported this side in the Civil War