Social Studies

Apuntes

Social Studies A corporation is a business owned by investors. Investors buy stock, a share of the company to become partial owners. Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company started to produce one of its most popular cars: the Model T. With an Assembly Line, a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers, There were two major waves of immigrants after the Civil War. Prejudice: is unfair negative opinions about a group of people Oppression: is unjust treatment by a government. Genocide: is the murder of an entire group of people, based on their race, culture, or beliefs This period of Germanys genocide against the Jew is now known as The Holocaust. EXPERIENCE OF ANNE FRANK Anne Frank, a Jewish girl in the Netherlands, also resisted, When the Germans invaded, Anne and her family went into hiding in an office building of her fathers. For two years in hiding, Anne kept a diary. The diary shows that she remained hopeful. She wrote, "In spite of everything I still pelieve that people are really good at heart" In 1944, the Nazis found the Franks. Anne ended up in a concentration camp, where she died of an illness at age 13,