Thursday, April 1, 2010

The New Deal PART 2

New Deal Part 2 Review

Directions: 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: It provided pension for the elderly, established unemployment insurance, established insurance for work related accidents, and provided aid for poverty, stricken mothers, and children

Describe how FDR favored Labor Unions in the New Deal: He believed that to get out of the GD, they had to raise the standard of living for industrial workers so they can get Wagner Act.

Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions: When FDR got reelected; he challenged the main opponent of the new deal programs the SC who had struck down many of his other programs ruling the president did not have the ability to regulate interstate commerce

Describe the Effects of the New Deal: It changed US gov from the Laissez Faire approach to accepting responsibility to prime the pump of the economy.



BR: How does FDR respond to the accusation that he feasts on a breakfast of grilled millionaries?
He was joking around with the whole things they said about feasting on a breakfast of millionaries and just laughed it off.

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

Monday, March 29, 2010

Webquest progress

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.

GD PART 2 REVIEW :[

BR: Charley Bull suggested that the hobo life was very dangerous and that people died moving from place to place, looking for homes and job hunting.

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? People didn’t really understand the stock market crash and the reasons behind it, and others did understand not having jobs the next day.

How did the unemployed live? Gradually workers hours were cut, and eventually many lost their jobs. When a worker lost his job, they went from factory to factory without luck.

How did GD affect farmers? As the prices fell and drought ensued, farmers fell further and further into debt. The income they got was not enough to pay for their new supplies.

What other problems did farmers face? Many lost their farms and moved around the country trying surviving and became tenant farmers.

How did GD affect family life? Men sank into shame and despair with some even leaving their families and also the birthrates went down and women began to work.

How did Hoover try to handle the depression? Hoover tries to help but was not very successful, and at first gave hands off approach but soon realizes policy does not work.

Friday, March 26, 2010

WebQuest Words unit 3

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.

The Great Depression review part 1 :[

BR: Why might Americans have innvested their money in stock instead of putting it into savings? The people enojoyed what seem the endless era of prospersity and putting the money in stocks cause of the confidence they had.

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? When he helped during WWI with the economy, and with that he won the Elections for president.

What things were going on in the 20’s that lead to the Great Depression? People were putting their savings into the Stock market and also farmers had to increase production during WWI to meet the demand which meant buying new land.

What was Black Tuesday? How did it happen? On Oct. 29, 1929, the Stock Market crashed completely and a lot of Americans lost billions of dollars with many who bought on margin.

What effects did Black Tuesday have on the US? Black Tuesday started a chain of reactions that led to the collapse of US economy. The crisis began make people become scared for the security of their money in the banks.

How did the Depression spread globally? With the reparation payments, War Debt Payments, and imbalance of trade had created shaky economic structure. The international economy had been funded largely by US loans so with the collapse of banks in US loans were curtailed leading to business to crash and unemployment in Europe.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

WWI part dos :)

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 services and pushed Congress to pass selected Service act which drafted young man.

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

How does the US gov control the press during WWI? The US used the press to make the Americans understand the trouble the soldiers went through and to support the war effort. They make posters, speakers, and pamphlets to get their attention.

How does the US gov control dissent during WWI? The CPI limited the number of opposition views and made it difficult for those views to be shared.

How are women affected by WWI? They supported the soldiers and went out to the war as nurses to help them and there were others who would

How are African Americans affected by WWI? They showed their loyalty and patriotism for the US.

How are Mexican Americans affected by WWI? They moved up North and increased the demand on agriculture products and decreased in farm workers.


BR : Why would the gov want citizens to support the war effort? To get more troops to draw from and aid them as the fought.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

La guerra de los Espanoles!!!

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? Because the US felt independence 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? Editor Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst publish publication called “Yellow Press” cause of cartoon. These publications exaggerate Spanish atrocities and compared Cuban to US fight for indp.

What pushes US into Span Am War? The newspapers; where it shows that Hearst publishes intercepted letter from Spain’s ambassador to DC that called McKinley a weak stupid politician further inflaming situation.

Describe the War include major groups that fought in war: The US fought the Spanish alongside with people and fought against places where the Spanish had created an empire.