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
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Critical Thinking
1. He used lived details to get reader a visual sight of what really happens in factories
2. It means that he was actually there and helped do the horrible things that actually happened
2. It means that he was actually there and helped do the horrible things that actually happened
Progressive Part 1 Movements Review
Progressive Part 1 Movements Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Where did the Progressive movement come from? Came from all walks of life with many people behind movement coming from middle class.
What were the goals of the progressive movement? Women’s right to vote, eliminating political bosses and political corruption, fixing basic services in cities which were often controlled by corrupted bosses.
What is a muckraker? Socially Conscious journalist and artist dramatized the need for reform. Nicknamed by teddy Roosevelt because were fascinated with the ugly side of life.
Describe Ida Tarbell’s writing: In the History of Standard Oil detailed how Rockefeller used ruthless methods to run off competitors.
What did Upton Sinclair write about? What influence did it have over gov? A book about horrible conditions of workers in Chicago stockyards, and the horrible conditions of the meat packing industry.
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Where did the Progressive movement come from? Came from all walks of life with many people behind movement coming from middle class.
What were the goals of the progressive movement? Women’s right to vote, eliminating political bosses and political corruption, fixing basic services in cities which were often controlled by corrupted bosses.
What is a muckraker? Socially Conscious journalist and artist dramatized the need for reform. Nicknamed by teddy Roosevelt because were fascinated with the ugly side of life.
Describe Ida Tarbell’s writing: In the History of Standard Oil detailed how Rockefeller used ruthless methods to run off competitors.
What did Upton Sinclair write about? What influence did it have over gov? A book about horrible conditions of workers in Chicago stockyards, and the horrible conditions of the meat packing industry.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Bell Ringer
Dying rich its a waste of money!!
Money can be passed out for those in need and could maybe try make this world a better place since money its a big crisis in our lives
Money can be passed out for those in need and could maybe try make this world a better place since money its a big crisis in our lives
Inventors and Big Business Review
Inventors and Big Business Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe inventions of Edison and their effect on US: Edison Establishes his laboratory, in New Jersey with the backing of rich industrialist. Received over 1000 patents for his new invention
Describe inventions of other such as Bell, Bessemer, and Marconi: Bell invents the telephone, Marconi invents wireless telegraph which leads to radio, and Henry Bessemer develops steel which leads to skyscrapers and suspension bridges
Describe how big business tried to maximize profit:Corps worked to maximize profits by decreasing workers pay and some corps looked to form monopolies by driving all competitors out of business
Describe how Rockefeller and Carnegie changed big business in the US: Rockefeller used horizontal integration to maximize profits which meant he wanted to consolidate all firms in the same business making one giant company. Carnegie did basically the same thing but Vertical movement
Describe how the gov regulated big business: Congress created interstate commerce commission which investigated unfairness in railroad industry. Congress also passed Sherman antitrust act which prohibits any trust that acts in restraint of commerce, but took a long time to be enforced
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe inventions of Edison and their effect on US: Edison Establishes his laboratory, in New Jersey with the backing of rich industrialist. Received over 1000 patents for his new invention
Describe inventions of other such as Bell, Bessemer, and Marconi: Bell invents the telephone, Marconi invents wireless telegraph which leads to radio, and Henry Bessemer develops steel which leads to skyscrapers and suspension bridges
Describe how big business tried to maximize profit:Corps worked to maximize profits by decreasing workers pay and some corps looked to form monopolies by driving all competitors out of business
Describe how Rockefeller and Carnegie changed big business in the US: Rockefeller used horizontal integration to maximize profits which meant he wanted to consolidate all firms in the same business making one giant company. Carnegie did basically the same thing but Vertical movement
Describe how the gov regulated big business: Congress created interstate commerce commission which investigated unfairness in railroad industry. Congress also passed Sherman antitrust act which prohibits any trust that acts in restraint of commerce, but took a long time to be enforced
Friday, March 5, 2010
Webquest 2
Birth of a Nation Webquest Words
1. Articles of Confederation: Original federal constitution drafted by the continental congress.
2. Shay’s Rebellion: Farmers rebellion led by Daniel Shays against higher taxes in Massachusetts.
3. Great Compromise: A compromise between Virginia and New Jersey plan for bicameral legislature.
4. federalism: politic system in which power is shared between the national and state governments
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise: a compromise in which each enslaved person would be counted as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of legislative representation.
6. Whiskey Rebellion: 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania that opposed to federal tax on whiskey
7. Little Turtle: Was a chief of a Miami tribe in what is today Indiana and one of the most successful Native American.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts: 1798 acts that allowed the gov. to send immigrants back to their country if they talked bad about government.
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787: law in which provided a basis for governing the north west territory
10. Louisiana Purchase: 1803 purchase from France by the U.S
11.Monroe Doctrine : foreign policy set forth by president Monroe in 1823
12.impressments: policy of seizing people or poverty for military and public services
13.Star Spangled Banner: poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 that became national anthem.
14. Eerie Canal: canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to Hudson River.
15. Samuel Slater: was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
16.Eli Whitney: He invented the cotton gin in the U.S by stealing the idea from England.
17. Horace Mann the largest national multilane insurance company serving America's educators and their families.18.Temperance Movement: movement that wanted to stop alcohol abuse, because it was causing a lot of problems.
18. Temperance Movement: movement aimed at stopping alcohol abused and problems created by it.
19. Seneca Falls Convention: held in NY in 1848 the first women’s right conventions in the U.S.
20. Indian Removal Act: act passed by congress in 1830 that allowed federal government to negotiate land trades with Indians in the South West.
21. Alamo: fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of 1836 defeat of Texans by Mexicans troops.
22. Frederick Douglas: born into slavery and is best known for his role in bringing the harsh realities of slavery to the attention of white Americans
23. William Lloyd Garrison: known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
24. Missouri Compromise: 1820 agreement calling for Missouri as a slave state
25. Nullification Crisis: concept in which state could nullify or void any federal paper.
26. Wilmot Proviso: proposed but rejected ,1846 bill that would have banned slavery
27. Compromise of 1850: political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state.
28. Underground Railroad: was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to Free states and Canada.
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe: was an American abolitionist and author of abolitionist books.
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854 law that divided The Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each state the right to choose if they would be for or against slavery
31. John Brown: was an American abolitionist
32. Nat Turner: was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 deaths
33. Dred Scott: was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
34. Jefferson Davis was an American military officer, statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
35. Robert E Lee: was a career United States Army officer, a combat engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history
36. Anaconda Plan Northern civil war strategy to starve the south by blockading the seaports and controlling the Mississippi river
37. border state: During the civil war were the states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union.
38. Stonewall Jackson: Was an confederate general during civil war
39. George McClellan: was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac.
40. Ulysses S Grant: served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
41. Antietam 1862 civil war battle in which 23,000 troops were killed or wounded in 1 day.
42. Gettysburg: was a battle fought in Gettysburg in PA during civil war, it was the turning point of the war.
43. Vicksburg: Confederate Stronghold on the Mississippi river that surrounded to Union Forces
44. Emancipation Proclamation: decree by president Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in free states
45. conscription: drafting of citizens into military services
46. total war: Military strategy in which an army attacks not only enemies but the civilians and whoever get in their ways
47. William Sherman: was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the civil war
48. John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington and then ended up dying.
1. Articles of Confederation: Original federal constitution drafted by the continental congress.
2. Shay’s Rebellion: Farmers rebellion led by Daniel Shays against higher taxes in Massachusetts.
3. Great Compromise: A compromise between Virginia and New Jersey plan for bicameral legislature.
4. federalism: politic system in which power is shared between the national and state governments
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise: a compromise in which each enslaved person would be counted as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of legislative representation.
6. Whiskey Rebellion: 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania that opposed to federal tax on whiskey
7. Little Turtle: Was a chief of a Miami tribe in what is today Indiana and one of the most successful Native American.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts: 1798 acts that allowed the gov. to send immigrants back to their country if they talked bad about government.
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787: law in which provided a basis for governing the north west territory
10. Louisiana Purchase: 1803 purchase from France by the U.S
11.Monroe Doctrine : foreign policy set forth by president Monroe in 1823
12.impressments: policy of seizing people or poverty for military and public services
13.Star Spangled Banner: poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 that became national anthem.
14. Eerie Canal: canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to Hudson River.
15. Samuel Slater: was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
16.Eli Whitney: He invented the cotton gin in the U.S by stealing the idea from England.
17. Horace Mann the largest national multilane insurance company serving America's educators and their families.18.Temperance Movement: movement that wanted to stop alcohol abuse, because it was causing a lot of problems.
18. Temperance Movement: movement aimed at stopping alcohol abused and problems created by it.
19. Seneca Falls Convention: held in NY in 1848 the first women’s right conventions in the U.S.
20. Indian Removal Act: act passed by congress in 1830 that allowed federal government to negotiate land trades with Indians in the South West.
21. Alamo: fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of 1836 defeat of Texans by Mexicans troops.
22. Frederick Douglas: born into slavery and is best known for his role in bringing the harsh realities of slavery to the attention of white Americans
23. William Lloyd Garrison: known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
24. Missouri Compromise: 1820 agreement calling for Missouri as a slave state
25. Nullification Crisis: concept in which state could nullify or void any federal paper.
26. Wilmot Proviso: proposed but rejected ,1846 bill that would have banned slavery
27. Compromise of 1850: political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state.
28. Underground Railroad: was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to Free states and Canada.
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe: was an American abolitionist and author of abolitionist books.
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854 law that divided The Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each state the right to choose if they would be for or against slavery
31. John Brown: was an American abolitionist
32. Nat Turner: was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 deaths
33. Dred Scott: was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
34. Jefferson Davis was an American military officer, statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
35. Robert E Lee: was a career United States Army officer, a combat engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history
36. Anaconda Plan Northern civil war strategy to starve the south by blockading the seaports and controlling the Mississippi river
37. border state: During the civil war were the states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union.
38. Stonewall Jackson: Was an confederate general during civil war
39. George McClellan: was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac.
40. Ulysses S Grant: served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
41. Antietam 1862 civil war battle in which 23,000 troops were killed or wounded in 1 day.
42. Gettysburg: was a battle fought in Gettysburg in PA during civil war, it was the turning point of the war.
43. Vicksburg: Confederate Stronghold on the Mississippi river that surrounded to Union Forces
44. Emancipation Proclamation: decree by president Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in free states
45. conscription: drafting of citizens into military services
46. total war: Military strategy in which an army attacks not only enemies but the civilians and whoever get in their ways
47. William Sherman: was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the civil war
48. John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington and then ended up dying.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Reconstruction Part 2
Reconstruction Part 2 Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
How did African Americans participate in politics? What party did they take up?being able to vote after the 15th amendment passed and taking up republican party
Carpetbagger- Northern white and black men who relocated to the South in order to improve economic and political circumstance
Scalawag-Southern white men who had been frozen out of politics before the war who allied with Republicans to gain political power
What was the Freedman’s Bureau? What did it do for both white and black refugees?Plan from Radical Republicans to form government agency to aid both White and Black refugees in the South, and Goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, education for refugees
How did gov leaders want to redistribute land? Sherman’s plan to redistribute land to freed people did not work
Sharecropping-landowner picks crop, provides needs, in return for part of crop
Share tenancy- same as sharecropping except farmer chose crop and bought own tools
Tenant Farming-pay cash rent to land owner in order to make all choices
What ways did south resist? Before 15th amendment limit vote to White Men and Passed black codes which limited African American rights including what work African Americans could do
What was the Ku Klux Klan? What aspects of African American life do they target? a group of white men that killed and destroy african americans
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
How did African Americans participate in politics? What party did they take up?being able to vote after the 15th amendment passed and taking up republican party
Carpetbagger- Northern white and black men who relocated to the South in order to improve economic and political circumstance
Scalawag-Southern white men who had been frozen out of politics before the war who allied with Republicans to gain political power
What was the Freedman’s Bureau? What did it do for both white and black refugees?Plan from Radical Republicans to form government agency to aid both White and Black refugees in the South, and Goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, education for refugees
How did gov leaders want to redistribute land? Sherman’s plan to redistribute land to freed people did not work
Sharecropping-landowner picks crop, provides needs, in return for part of crop
Share tenancy- same as sharecropping except farmer chose crop and bought own tools
Tenant Farming-pay cash rent to land owner in order to make all choices
What ways did south resist? Before 15th amendment limit vote to White Men and Passed black codes which limited African American rights including what work African Americans could do
What was the Ku Klux Klan? What aspects of African American life do they target? a group of white men that killed and destroy african americans
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