Monday, March 29, 2010

Great Depression Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How did GD affect cities?
Ordinary people didn’t really understand stock market crash and reasons for GD however having a job one day and not having one the next.

How did the unemployed live?
Many families descended into homelessness and hunger with the feeling of the American Dream being lost.

How did GD affect farmers?
As prices fell and drought ensued farmers fell further and further into debt

What other problems did farmers face?
Many lost their farms and moved around the country trying to survive. Others turned to being tenant farmers as a way for survival.

How did GD affect family life?
Many men sank into shame and despair with some even leaving their families. Birthrates dropped, women worked constantly to support family, children dropped out of schools, and some children ran away

Friday, March 26, 2010

Great Depression Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How did Herbert Hoover win the election of 1828? with his past WWI accomplishments and with optimism over the economy Herbert Hoover wins the presidential election


What things were going on in the 20’s that lead to the Great Depression? Demand decreased after WWI, but farmers were still producing war levels meaning huge surplus of crops


What was Black Tuesday? How did it happen? Black Tuesday started chain reaction leading to collapse of US economy. Crisis in Confidence led people to become scared for the security of their money in banks leading to a rush of withdraws



What effects did Black Tuesday have on the US?
Americans lost billions of dollars with many who bought on margin losing everything they had

How did the Depression spread globally? Gov tried to raise tariffs with Hawley-Smoot Tariff in effort to protect US business, but raised it high enough were foreign goods could not compete leading Europe to do cut off their markets further hurting US business

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

World War I Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How does nationalism influence countries in the early 1900’s?europeans believed should express nationalism of a single group in country;best nation shouldbcome ahead.

What is militarism? How does it influence Europe in the early 1900’s?preparing for war and increasing the size .

Triple Alliance-germany,italy, austria hungary

Triple Entente-russia,gb,france

How does the war start?assassination of france ferdinard of austria by serbians led chain reaction of alliances leading the war.he didnt like the rules.

Why does the war become a stalemate?germany pushes quickly into france where is stalement when both sides moved to trenches and used machine guns to defeat attacks.

How does the US become involved in the war?because immigrants in country identified with different ethnic groups.

bell ringer:

germans destroyed louvain ,they destroyed louvain to provoke americaans to fight in the war

The Roaring 20’s Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How does organized labor affect the US after WWI? After the war because of scarcity of goods and the high demand for goods inflation ran rampant. With inflation causing workers to be unable to buy goods, workers strike for high wages.

What was the Red Scare? Labor Strikes and revolutionary activity abroad led to first Red Scare which was a wave of fear in US of suspected communist and radicals plotting against the US gov

How does the Red Scare affect immigration policy? Red Scare added fuel to Anti-Immigration debate with nativist arguing that immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were bringing in their revolutionary ideas

How does Warren Harding return the US to a policy of pro big business? Harding favored a return to a laissez-faire approach to gov involvement in business instead of the reforms of the progressives. Harding’s problem as President was that he entrusted a lot of his decisions to friends which left him open for corruption which included the tea-pot dome scandal were his Sec of the Interior got oil reserves transferred from Navy to his interior and then leased it to private oil for money

Describe the Tea Pot Dome Scandal: was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.

How does ford improve the auto industry? Ford hired scientific management experts to look at every step of manufacturing process in order to reduce time, effort, and expense

How does the expansion of the automobile industry lead to improvements in the US? Auto related industries like steel and oil experienced boom with new effort to find new oil reserves. Road construction and businesses like service stations, diners, and motels also experienced boom. Auto boom saw decline in other forms of transport

How does easy credit aid in the economic boom? Fueled by new ways of buying, people who did not have the cash to buy could by on credit which was easily obtained. Americans also bought stock on credit, called buying on margin, people paid only 10 % of stock upfront, led to rising stock market prices but created an unstable market.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

World War I Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.



How does the US build an army during WWI?
Wilson encouraged Americans to volunteer for service and pushed Congress to pass selected Service Act which authorizes a draft of young men for military service



How does the US gov control the economy during WWI?
Created Council of National Defense which created array of new fed agencies to oversee war efforts different phases and regulate use of Industry



How does the US gov control the press during WWI?
They dramatized the war effort and exaggerated the enemy



How does the US gov control dissent during WWI?
the cpi limited the nuber of oppositin views.


How are women affected by WWI?
Many women went to work for first time in jobs held by men before war. Some joined Red Cross or American Women's Hospital and went overseas



How are African Americans affected by WWI?
Viewed as opportunity to show loyalty and patriotism



How are Mexican Americans affected by WWI?
Increased demand for ag products and decrease in farm workers

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Unit 3 Web Quest Words

Unit 3 Web Quest Words
1. Radical Republican were apart of the Republican Party that was opposed against slavery during war.
2. Wade-Davis bill was a program made Benjamin Wade and Winter Davis which were apart of the Republican Party, they made it to reconstruct the federalism and republicanism.
3. Freedman’s Bureau main focus was to provide food and medical care and to help the freedmen to resettle, to ensure justice for freedmen.
4. Andrew Johnson was the 17th president and also was the 1st president to be impeached.
5. Fourteenth Amendment makes everyone equal and does not matter what race you are or religion, you are all created equal.
6. Fifteenth amendment made everybody have the right to vote.
7. Scalawag was the nickname of white southerners who supported the North.
8. Carpetbagger was the nickname of Northerners who went to the south for Finical Advantage.
9. Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land for exchange shares of crops.
10. Muckrakers were people who wrote about the urban lives of the homeless people and poverty.
11. Settlement house was to help the poor have houses during the Progressive Movement.
12. Jane Adams was the founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement and was the 2nd woman to won to the Noble Peace Prize.
13. Direct primary is where the people can vote for any group or party.
14. Initiative is a petition signed by certain number of voters so that they can force a public vote.
15. Referendum is a direct vote that can make the entire electorate accept or reject it.
16. Recall is when they want you to bring back a product if it is defective.
17. Upton Sinclair was the author of “The Jungle” that exposed the conditions of a U.S. meat packing industry.
18. Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws that separated the Americans and the African Americans equally.
19. NAACP is a group the stands for the Civil Rights of African Americans and colored folks.
20. Plessey v Ferguson was decided the by Supreme Court to separate accommodations from blacks and whites.
21. sphere of influence was a territorial area which was fought between political and economic influences to see who would control the territory.
22. Rough Riders was given the name to the 1st United States Volunteer Calvary.
23. Big Stick Diplomacy was a slogan based on Theorode Roosevelt's coroallary on the Monroe Doctrine.
24. Roosevelt Corollary was to stop having people from Europe to interfear with Latin America.
25. Thomas Edison was the 1st to invent the Light bulb.
26. monopoly is when there suffcient control over a particular product or service to determine terms on which indiviual shall get it.
27. cartel
28. John Rockefeller-
29. trust-
30. Andrew Carnegie-
31. Sherman Anti-Trust Act-
32. collective bargaining-
33. Samuel Gompers-
34. Ellis Island-
35. Wounded Knee-
36. Francis Ferdinand-
37. U-Boat-
38. Lusitanian-
39. Zimmerman Telegram-
40. Selective Service Act-
41. Woodrow Wilson--
42. 14 Points-
43. League of Nations-
44. Reparations-
45. Red Scare-

Progressive Part 2 Movements Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe what a settlement house is: Settlement houses were community centers that provided social services to the urban poor such as childcare classes, English classes, education opportunities, and art classes for adults.

Who was the leading figure of the settlement house movement? Why? Jane Adams who opened Hull House in Chicago that grew to 13 buildings and inspired many to pursue social work.

Describe Progressive Children’s reforms: Progressive wanted to improve lives of children which included trying to ban child labor which in the end was not ended by congress until 1938

Describe Progressive Industrial Workers Reform: What was the leading cause of it? In the early 1900’s industrial workers worked in poor conditions which long hours, in poor ventilations, dangerous fumes, and unsafe machinery. A fire broke at triangle shirt factory killing 146 workers because managers had locked most of the exits.

Describe gov reforms during progressive era: As result planning with hurricane response in Galveston Texas, city replaces mayor and alderman with 5 person commission

Direct primary - Took a choice out of party leaders and handed people.

Recall – Allows citizens to remove elected officials by vote

Referendum – Allowed citizens to vote or reject laws

Initiative – People could propose new laws with by getting enough signatures could get new law on ballot

Jim Crow Laws – To keep AA from voting and keep them separate

Plessey vs. Ferguson -

Describe how the NAACP started and its mission – Riots over possible lynching of AA prisoners lead to formation of NAACP

bell ringer

1)booker
-to achieve economic independence
w.e.b.
-to demand their social andcivil rights or age become permentant of racisim

Span Am Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

What interest does the US have in Cuba? US had invested millions of dollars in Cuba, because felt indp battle close to own struggle and didn’t like Spanish tactics in War



How did newspapers have a role in the start of the Span Am War? Editors Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst publishes publications called Yellow Press cause of cartoon


What pushes US into Span Am War? Hearst publishes intercepted letter from Spain’s ambassador to DC, which called McKinley a weak stupid politician further inflaming situation


Describe the War include major groups that fought in war:
Signed at end of war Spain gives up Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US buys Philippines

Friday, March 5, 2010

Progressive Part 1 Movements Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

What effect does railroad expansion have on industry?
Could transport large amounts of goods quickly and efficiently,
Because linked the nation could obtain raw materials easily and sell goods to larger number of people


Describe how the transcontinental railroad comes to be:
Private companies were the ones that build railroads not gov

Describe the effect the transcontinental railroad had on Chinese immigrants: under harsh conditions and with little regard for their safety as they chipped and blasted through Rockies


Describe the effects of the transcontinental railroad: Tied nation together, moved products and people, and stimulated industrial growth
Stimulated Growths of Towns and cities with prospectors buying land where railroad might be an existing towns lobbying to be on the route. Intensified conflicts with Indians and Mexican American communities as demand for land grew

bell ringer

they were smaller and could fit in to smaller places.and they could pay less.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

web quest 2

1. Articles of Confederation: The first constitution of the United States
2. Shay’s Rebellion: was an armed uprising in Central and Western Massachusetts
3. Great Compromise: The Great Compromise resolved that there would be representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equal representation would exist in the Senate.
4. Federalism: someone believes in, supports, or follows a federal system of government.
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise: compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention.
6. Whiskey Rebellion: was a popular uprising on tax.
7. Little Turtle: was a chief of the Miami tribe in what is presently Indiana.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts: were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787: was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
10. Louisiana Purchase: purchased from France for $15 million
11. Monroe Doctrine: A cornerstone of US foreign policy as enunciated
12. Impressments: was the act of compelling some people to serve in the military
13. Star Spangled Banner: the national flag of the United States of America
14. Eerie Canal: An artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo
15. Samuel Slater: was an early American industrialist popularly
16. Eli Whitney: He was a well-known American inventor.
17. Horace Mann: was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S.
18. Temperance Movement: A temperance movement is a social movement against the use of alcohol.
19. Seneca Falls Convention: was an early and influential women's rights convention
20. Indian Removal Act: part of a United States government policy known as Indian removal.
21. Alamo: a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio
22. Frederick Douglas - Abolitionist speaker who escaped from slavery
23. William Lloyd Garrison- United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal
24. Missouri Compromise- an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions
25. Nullification Crisis- was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
26. Wilmot Proviso- Proposal in Congress, made by David Wilmot, that forbid slavery in all of the new territories acquired from Mexico
27. Compromise of 1850- was a series of bills aimed at resolving the territorial and slavery controversies arisen from the Mexican-American
28. Underground Railroad- secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe- was an American abolitionist and author.
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act- created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands
31. John Brown- was a criminal trial held in Virginia in October 1859 to prosecute radical anti-slavery abolitionist
32. Nat Turner- was an American slave who led a slave rebellion that resulted in 55 deaths
33. Dred Scott- was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully
34. Jefferson Davis- American soldier and president of the Confederacy
35. Robert E Lee- American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War
36. Anaconda Plan- is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
37. border state- efers to the five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia, which bordered a free state and were aligned with the Union.
38. Stonewall Jackson- general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
39. George McClellan- U.S. Army Major General during the American Civil War
40. Ulysses S Grant- commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
41. Antietam- Civil War battle in 1862, in which an attempt by the South to strike into Maryland
42. Gettysburg- a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
43. Vicksburg- a town in western Mississippi
44. Emancipation Proclamation- consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War
45. Conscription- compulsory military service
46. total war- s a strategy game series developed by the Creative Assembly.
47. William Sherman- was an American soldier
48. John Wilkes Booth- United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln

Monday, March 1, 2010

Reconstruction Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction: As soon as 10 percent of state voters took loyalty oath could set up new gov, was willing to pardon Confers.

Describe the Radical Republican’s plan for Reconstruction: Group in Lincoln’s party who reject plan, Advocate full citizenship and suffrage for AA,
Supported Sherman's plan to give land to AA.

Describe Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction: Offered pardons and restoration of land to most Confeds but leaders had to apply personally.

Describe the 13th amendment: 13th amend ended slavery

Describe the 14th amendment: Pass 14th amend guaranteeing equality to all cits including AA

Describe the 15ht amendment: With Grant winning election of 68 Congress passes 15th Amendment guaranteeing AA right to vote but left loopholes

Describe Johnson’s impeachment: Each state had to ratify 13th Amend and draft Constar abolishing slavery.