Web Quest Unit 3

Unit 3 Web Quest Words
1. Radical Republican
a. A political party from between 1854 to 1877 which was pro equal rights and wanted to reduce rights of ex confederates.
2. Wade-Davis bill
a. A bill created by the Radical Republican party for the re-admittance of the former CSA where the majority of a state had to take an oath that they never supported the Confederacy.
3. Freedman’s Bureau
a. A federal program which aided distressed refugees of the civil war.
4. Andrew Johnson
a. The 17th President of the US.
5. Fourteenth Amendment
a. A reconstruction policy which fully describes citizenship which excluded slaves from having constitutional rights.
6. Fifteenth amendment
a. The amendment which prohibits states from denying citizens the right to vote based off race or ethnicity.
7. scalawag
a. A southerner who worked with carpetbaggers.
8. carpetbagger
a. Northern demagogues who moved south during reconstruction.
9. sharecropping
a. When one allows farming on their land for a share of the produce.
10. Muckraker
a. One who exposes corruption of business or government to the public.
11. settlement house
a. A progressive reformist movement which was meant to bring the poor and rich closer together.
12. Jane Adams
a. The founder of the settlement house, also the second women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
13. direct primary
a. An election which selects the candidates for a following election.
14. initiative
a. A petition signed by a certain amount of registered voters which will force a public vote.
15. referendum
a. A direct vote when a group of people are asked to accept or decline a proposal.
16. Recall
a. To summon the return of something.
17. Upton Sinclair
a. A Pulitzer Prize winning author most famous for writing “The Jungle”.
18. Jim Crow Laws
a. Laws enforced in southern states limiting the rights of black people.
19. NAACP
a. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
20. Plessey v Ferguson
a. This case allowed segregation as long as the facilities were equal.
21. sphere of influence
a. an area which a state has significant economic, cultural, and military, or political influence
22. Rough Riders
a. The name given to the 1st United States Volunteer Calvary
23. Big Stick Diplomacy
a. The slogan describing president Theodore Roosevelt’s proposition to the Monroe Doctrine.
24. Roosevelt Corollary
a. An amendment to the Monroe Doctrine meant to stabilize economic affairs in small states in the Caribbean and Central America.
25. Thomas Edison
a. An American inventor who was granted over 1,000 patents and credited for inventing the long lasting light bulb.
26. monopoly
a. A level of control on a certain market that one can manipulate prices.
27. cartel
a. A syndicate or trust to regulate prices in a field of business.
28. John Rockefeller
a. An American industrialist who founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he retired.
29. trust
a. To invest or entrust in something.
30. Andrew Carnegie
a. An industrialist, business man, and entrepreneur.
31. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
a. This act required federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, the first federal regulation to limit monopolies.
32. collective bargaining
a. organized workers, usually unions, meeting to discuss the work conditions with their employers.
33. Samuel Gompers
a. A union leader who founded the American Federation of Labor.
34. Ellis Island
a. A federal facility which immigrants from Europe had to go through to be granted citizenship.
35. Wounded Knee
a. The final armed battle between the US and the Great Sioux Nation.
36. Francis Ferdinand
a. An Archduke of Austria whose assassination on June 28 1914 sparked WWI.
37. U-Boat
a. German submarines built in WWI and WWII
38. Lusitania
a. An ancient roman province which was all of Portugal and some of Spain.
39. Zimmerman Telegram
a. A coded telegram which was trying to convince Mexico to attack the US, and in return Germany would help the Mexicans reclaim some of their lost territory.
40. Selective Service Act
a. A military draft passed in 1917 by congress while Wilson was in office.
41. Woodrow Wilson
a. The 28th president of the United States,

New Deal Pt2

Describe the Work Progress Administration:
Sponsored artist and put people back to work through civil projects.

Describe the Social Security Act:
Gave pension for elderly and unemployment insurance.

Describe how FDR favored Labor Unions in the New Deal:
Belived in order to get of the GD had to raise standard of living.

Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions: SD Had struck down many of his programs. FDR added new judges who would be new deal supporters.

Describe the Effects of the New Deal:
Changed US Gov. increased power of president and organized conservation programs.

GD PT 1

How did GD affect cities?
Everyone knew someone or was effected by GD.

How did the unemployed live?
In shantytowns on outskirts.

How did GD affect farmers?
Farmers were out of work with bad soil and corps.

What other problems did farmers face?
Terrible farming land.

How did GD affect family life?
Many man left their families and birthrates drooped.

How did Hoover try to handle the depression?
Gave hands off approach and tried to help depression by construction of Hoover Dam.

The Gret Depression Pt.1

How did Herbert Hoover win the election of 1828? Past WW accomplishments and optimism over the economy.

What things were going on in the 20’s that lead to the Great Depression? Surplus production and lack of consumer buying.

What was Black Tuesday? How did it happen?
The day Americans lost billons of dollars. Happened cause most of the stock market was based on confidence.

What effects did Black Tuesday have on the US?
Caused a chain of events that led to the fall of the US economy.

How did the Depression spread globally?
Counties in debt due to payments owed and in balanced trade.

Bell Ringer

3-18-10




To help the US stay ahead other countries in the war and so the Gov. wouldn’t spend so much on the war.

WW pt 2

How does the US build an army during WWI? By organizing a draft.

How does the US gov control the economy during WWI?
Switch to wartime economy and created council of national defense.

How does the US gov control the press during WWI?
Form committee of Public info.

How does the US gov control dissent during WWI?loyal
CPI limited the number of opposition views.

How are women affected by WWI?
Women began to form Peace parties. Right to vote, jobs, many enlisted in nurse corps.

How are African Americans affected by WWI?
Were Given opportunity to show loyalty and patriotism.

How are Mexican Americans affected by WWI?
Decrease in farm work and many formed new neighborhoods.

Bell Ringer 3-17-10

1.Because of the sinking of the US bat the Lusitanian and the German invasion of Belgium.

2. To bait the US into war and to show other nations they were serious.