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 artists
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 had to raise the standards of living for industrial workers so gets Wagner Act passed which recognized employees’ rights to join labor union and collective bargaining, also established minimum wages, limit workweeks, and outlaws child labor
Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions: the SC did had struck down many of his programs ruling that the president did not have the ability to regulate interstate commerce; FDR came up with a plan to add 6 new judges who realistically would be New Deal supporters
Describe the Effects of the New Deal: changed the US government from laissez-faire approach to accepting responsibility to prime the pump of the economy, turned US into welfare state with US government accepting responsibility to help the poor
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Great Depression Part 2 Review
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? Normal people did not understand stock market crash and reason for GD but did understand having a job one day and not having one the next. Workers understood the shame and fear in losing their homes
How did the unemployed live? Many went from factory to factory looking for jobs, families had to eat less and take family to bread line and some descended into homelessness and hunger with feeling that the American Dream being lost
How did GD affect farmers? The income the generated was not enough to pay for their new equipments and supplies. Many lost their farms and moved around the country to survive. Others turned to being tenants as a way to survive
What other problems did farmers face? During the 30’s the Midwest goes through a drought and with new farming technique farmers worsened the drought farmers could not farm and dust bowl.
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, kids dropped out of school and some kids ran away.
How did Hoover try to handle the depression? At first gave hands off approach, but soon realizes policy does not work, also requested wealthy individuals to give to charity
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
How did GD affect cities? Normal people did not understand stock market crash and reason for GD but did understand having a job one day and not having one the next. Workers understood the shame and fear in losing their homes
How did the unemployed live? Many went from factory to factory looking for jobs, families had to eat less and take family to bread line and some descended into homelessness and hunger with feeling that the American Dream being lost
How did GD affect farmers? The income the generated was not enough to pay for their new equipments and supplies. Many lost their farms and moved around the country to survive. Others turned to being tenants as a way to survive
What other problems did farmers face? During the 30’s the Midwest goes through a drought and with new farming technique farmers worsened the drought farmers could not farm and dust bowl.
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, kids dropped out of school and some kids ran away.
How did Hoover try to handle the depression? At first gave hands off approach, but soon realizes policy does not work, also requested wealthy individuals to give to charity
Friday, March 26, 2010
Unit 3 Web Quest Words
Unit 3 Web Quest Words
1. Radical Republican - were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party
2. Wade-Davis bill - was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans
3. Freedman’s Bureau - U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees of the American Civil War
4. Andrew Johnson - 17th president of the U.S.
5. Fourteenth Amendment - made important decisions about civil rights, right to citizenship for those born in US immigration and personal liberties.
6. Fifteenth amendment - guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race
7. scalawag - a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War
8. carpetbagger - a Northerner who moved to the southern United States after the Civil War, especially one seeking political or commercial advantage
9. sharecropping
10. Muckraker - seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public
11. settlement house - was a progressive reformist social movement, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community
12. Jane Adams - was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement
13. direct primary - an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election
14. initiative -
15. referendum
16. recall
17. Upton Sinclair
18. Jim Crow Laws – laws against African Americans
19. NAACP
20. Plessey v Ferguson
21. sphere of influence
22. Rough Riders -
23. Big Stick Diplomacy
24. Roosevelt Corollary
25. Thomas Edison - Inventor
26. monopoly – Owning all the companies that make your product
27. cartel
28. John Rockefeller – businessman who made a trust on standard oil
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. Lusitania
39. Zimmerman Telegram
40. Selective Service Act
41. Woodrow Wilson
42. 14 Points
43. League of Nations
44. Reparations
45. Red Scare
1. Radical Republican - were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party
2. Wade-Davis bill - was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans
3. Freedman’s Bureau - U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees of the American Civil War
4. Andrew Johnson - 17th president of the U.S.
5. Fourteenth Amendment - made important decisions about civil rights, right to citizenship for those born in US immigration and personal liberties.
6. Fifteenth amendment - guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race
7. scalawag - a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War
8. carpetbagger - a Northerner who moved to the southern United States after the Civil War, especially one seeking political or commercial advantage
9. sharecropping
10. Muckraker - seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public
11. settlement house - was a progressive reformist social movement, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community
12. Jane Adams - was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement
13. direct primary - an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election
14. initiative -
15. referendum
16. recall
17. Upton Sinclair
18. Jim Crow Laws – laws against African Americans
19. NAACP
20. Plessey v Ferguson
21. sphere of influence
22. Rough Riders -
23. Big Stick Diplomacy
24. Roosevelt Corollary
25. Thomas Edison - Inventor
26. monopoly – Owning all the companies that make your product
27. cartel
28. John Rockefeller – businessman who made a trust on standard oil
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. Lusitania
39. Zimmerman Telegram
40. Selective Service Act
41. Woodrow Wilson
42. 14 Points
43. League of Nations
44. Reparations
45. Red Scare
Great Depression Part 1 Review
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 1928? Because of his past WWI accomplishments and with optimism over the economy
What things were going on in the 20’s that lead to the Great Depression? Farmers had increased productions during WWI to meet demand which meant buying new land and equipment which resulted in farmers bringing major debt into the 20’s
What was Black Tuesday? How did it happen? Much of the stock was just based on confidence with people pouring money they did not have into stock speculations; by Sept. 3, 1929 the stock market began to stutter by Oct. people began to lose confidence and on Oct. 29 the market crashed completely; this is known as Black Tuesday, Americans lost billions of dollars with many who bought on margin losing everything they had
What effects did Black Tuesday have on the US? It started a chain reaction leading to the collapse of U.S. economy
How did the Depression spread globally? International economy had been funded largely by U.S. loans so with collapse of bank in U.S. loans were curtailed leading to business collapse and unemployment in Europe.
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 1928? Because of his past WWI accomplishments and with optimism over the economy
What things were going on in the 20’s that lead to the Great Depression? Farmers had increased productions during WWI to meet demand which meant buying new land and equipment which resulted in farmers bringing major debt into the 20’s
What was Black Tuesday? How did it happen? Much of the stock was just based on confidence with people pouring money they did not have into stock speculations; by Sept. 3, 1929 the stock market began to stutter by Oct. people began to lose confidence and on Oct. 29 the market crashed completely; this is known as Black Tuesday, Americans lost billions of dollars with many who bought on margin losing everything they had
What effects did Black Tuesday have on the US? It started a chain reaction leading to the collapse of U.S. economy
How did the Depression spread globally? International economy had been funded largely by U.S. loans so with collapse of bank in U.S. loans were curtailed leading to business collapse and unemployment in Europe.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Witness History 37
Why did government want citizens to support war efforts?
- Because it would help out the soldiers over seas and if everybody helped then it would make it easier on everyone
- Because it would help out the soldiers over seas and if everybody helped then it would make it easier on everyone
World War I Part 2 Review
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? By drafting and encouraging Americans to volunteer
How does the US gov control the economy during WWI? They regulated all industries in war effort, and regulated ag including prices and encouraged Americans to eat less because then the food could be shipped to soldiers
How does the US gov control the press during WWI? They didn’t allow criticism of the Government and they gave permission to the post office to restrict what citizens received
How does the US gov control dissent during WWI? CPI limited number of opposition views and made it difficult for those views to be shared
How are women affected by WWI? Many women went to work at jobs that were held by men before the war, some joined the Red Cross and went overseas, many became nurses in the military
How are African Americans affected by WWI? Many supported the war, viewed as opportunity to show loyalty and patriotism, on battlefield fought segregated with white officers
How are Mexican Americans affected by WWI? Increased demand for ag products and decreased in farm workers, some were seasonal while other stayed and formed their own neighborhood
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? By drafting and encouraging Americans to volunteer
How does the US gov control the economy during WWI? They regulated all industries in war effort, and regulated ag including prices and encouraged Americans to eat less because then the food could be shipped to soldiers
How does the US gov control the press during WWI? They didn’t allow criticism of the Government and they gave permission to the post office to restrict what citizens received
How does the US gov control dissent during WWI? CPI limited number of opposition views and made it difficult for those views to be shared
How are women affected by WWI? Many women went to work at jobs that were held by men before the war, some joined the Red Cross and went overseas, many became nurses in the military
How are African Americans affected by WWI? Many supported the war, viewed as opportunity to show loyalty and patriotism, on battlefield fought segregated with white officers
How are Mexican Americans affected by WWI? Increased demand for ag products and decreased in farm workers, some were seasonal while other stayed and formed their own neighborhood
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Witness History 36
Why did the U.S. shift position from neutrality to involvement? Why might the Germans have destroyed Louvain?
- Because German's were destroying towns for no reason; to antaganize the U.S.
- Because German's were destroying towns for no reason; to antaganize the U.S.
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