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