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Apr 27, 1540
Plain Indian
The Cheyenne, Sioux and other tribes hunted in the Great Plains. the Plains were unihabted before the arrival of Coloumbus. -
indentured Servants
this refers to the practice of contracting wokers for a fixed amount of time, typically 3-7 years. Te indentured servant would exchange their wrk for food, shleter, transporation, cloting or other necessary items. Indentured servents included men as ell as women, most women became helpers on farms or house servants. this ended when coditions in Europe improved. -
Puritans
the Puritans family structure was based mainly on church and religious values. The Puritans viewed the male head of the household as the one Biblically responsible for commanding and instructing the family in the way of the Lord. -
Plymouth
English settlers, primarily Puritans migrated to Massachusetts and the warm islands of the West Indies, especially the sugar rich island of Barbados, They came in family groups, rather than as isolated individuals and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion. -
New England Colonies
the New England colonies concicted of educated men as well as many skilled farmers, tradesmen and craftmen. There was an abundant food supply which resulted in low death rates and a high number of birh rates during the time. -
Tenements
They were first built to house the waves of immigrants that arrived in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, and they represented the primary form of urban working-class housing until the New Deal. A regular tenement building was from five to six stories high, with four apartments on each floor. -
Temperance Movement
During the temperamce movement men were accused of being violent and neglecting their wife and children. when men consumed alcohol they would get violent and beat their wifes. The values for women during this period were to protect their families. -
Levittowns
William J. Levitt led the development of postwar suburbia with his building and promotion of Levittown.This built an efficient network of roads, highways and superhighways, and the underwriting of mortgages for suburban one-family homes made suburbs grow. In effect, the government was encouraging the transfer of the middle-class population out of the inner cities and into the suburbs. -
Great Migration
It was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. This changed the family and social structure f the poeple living in the North, it also populated the cities in the North. -
Prohibition
This was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. Prohibition led to upper class people hosting secret parties. Prohihibiton led some bars into debt but led other people into the upper class society. -
Great Depression
This was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. The family lifes of most Americans were horribe and theyre sanitary conditions were even worse. -
Hoovervilles
This was a shanty town built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. -
Elneanor Roosevelt
Eeanor Roosevelt was an American plitician, diplomat and activist. she became to be the long lasting first lady. She represented that women could be involved in politics. It demonstarted and shifted the views towards women. -
Rosie The Riveter
She is a cultural icon of the United States during World War II, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. -
Baby Boom
These are people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "baby boomer" is also used in a cultural context.
