Webquest Unit 3

Unit 3 Web Quest Words

1. Radical Republican- The Radicals, a faction of the regular Republican Party, came into prominence on the national level after 1860. They never achieved majority status within Republican ranks, but were successful with manipulating the other factions to their advantage.
2. Wade-Davis bill- At the end of the Civil War, this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and the readmittance of the Confederate states to the Union.
3. Freedman’s Bureau- often referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine.
4. Andrew Johnson- 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
Fourteenth Amendment- an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
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6. Fifteenth amendment- to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude
7. scalawag - a native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction, often for personal gain.
8. carpetbagger- a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, esp. so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
sharecropping- to farm as a sharecropper.
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Muckraker- to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, esp. in politics.
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settlement house- the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
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Jane Adams- Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889. She is also remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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direct primary- a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
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initiative- an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
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15. referendum- the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection
16. recall- to bring back from memory; recollect; remember:
17. Upton Sinclair- 1878–1968, U.S. novelist, socialist, and reformer.
Jim Crow Laws- any state law discriminating against black persons.
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NAACP- abbreviation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, first attested 1910. Organization founded Feb. 12, 1909, as National Negro Committee.
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20. Plessey v Ferguson- is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
21. sphere of influence- A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation.
Rough Riders- the members of a volunteer regiment of cavalry organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood for service in the Spanish-American War.
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Big Stick Diplomacy- International negotiations backed by the threat of force. The phrase comes from a proverb quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, who said that the United States should “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
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24. Roosevelt Corollary- a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
25. Thomas Edison- American inventor and physicist who took out more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime. His inventions include the telegraph (1869), microphone (1877), and light bulb (1879).
monopoly- exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
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cartel- 1560, "a written challenge," from M.Fr. cartel, from It. cartello, dim. of carta "card." It came to mean "written agreement between challengers" (1692). Sense of "a commercial trust" comes 1902, via Ger. Kartell.
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28. John Rockefeller- immensely rich man," 1938, in ref. to U.S. financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937).
trust- reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
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30. Andrew Carnegie- 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland.
31. Sherman Anti-Trust Act- requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act.
collective bargaining- the process by which wages, hours, rules, and working conditions are negotiated and agreed upon by a union with an employer for all the employees collectively whom it represents.
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33. Samuel Gompers- 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
Ellis Island- an island in upper New York Bay: a former U.S. immigrant examination station.
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35. Wounded Knee- A creek of southwest South Dakota. Some 200 Native Americans were massacred here by U.S. troops on December 29, 1890. In 1973 a standoff between Indian activists and U.S. law officers resulted in deaths on both sides.
36. Francis Ferdinand
37. U-Boat
38. Lusitania
39. Zimmerman Telegram
40. Selective Service Act
41. Woodrow Wilson
42. 14 Points
43. League of Nations
44. Reparations
45. Red Scare

New Deal Part 2

New Deal Part 2 ReviewDirections: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the Work Progress Administration: It put people back to work through civil projects and doing things like sponsoring artist.
Describe the Social Security Act: Provided pension for the elderly, established unemployment insurance, established insurance for work related accidents, and provided aid for poverty stricken mothers, children, the blind, and the disabled.
Describe how FDR favored Labor Unions in the New Deal: He believed that to get out of the GD, the standards of living for industrial workers needed to be raised. He got the Wagner Act passed which recognized employees’ rights to join labor unions and collective bargain.Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions.The SC struck down many of FDR’s programs.
Describe the Effects of the New Deal: The US changed from laissez faire approach to accepting responsibility to prime the pump of the economy. It turned US into a welfare state. The US took an active approach to the environment. It increased the power of the President.