Unit 4 Webquest Words

1.Henry Ford- was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.
2. Assembly Line-arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in a direct line.
3. Installment buying- Purchasing a commodity over a period of time
4. Teapot Dome Scandal-during the Harding in which the administration Secretary of the interior leased government oil reserves.
5. Calvin Coolidge- was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
6. Kellog-Briand Pact-1928 agreement in which many nation agreed to outlaw war.
7. Dawes Plan-agreement with US loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payment to Britain and France
8. Scopes Trial-1925 trial of a trial Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin’s theory if evolution.
9. Prohibition-the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale or alcohol.
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11. Charlie Chaplin- was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era, and became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War.
12. Charles Lindberg- was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
13. Marcus Garvey- was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)
14. Harlem Renaissance- period during the 1920’s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their cultures
15. Black Tuesday-October 29, 1929 when the stock prices fell sharply in the great crash.
16. Hawley-Smoot Tariff- protective import tax authorized by congress in 1930.
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18. Hooverville- makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the great depression.
19. Dust Bowl-for the central and southern great plains during the 1930’s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms
20. Repatriation- Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced, by local, state and federal officials to return to Mexico during in 1930’s
21. FDIC- Federal deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured bank insurance up to 5,000.
22. TVA- is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression
23. Huey Long- nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator from 1932 to 1935
24. Social Security Act- 1935 law that set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance and created insurance for victims of work- related accidents.
25. Joseph Stalin- was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.
26. Benito Mussolini- was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
27. Adolph Hitler- was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
28. Appeasement- policy of granting concession in order to keep the peace.
29. Munich Pact- agreement between Germany, Italy, GB, and France in 1938 that scarified the Sudetenland to preserve peace.
30. Blitzkrieg- lighting war that emphasized the use of speed to penetrate deep into the enemy’s territory
31. Winston Churchill- was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II.
32. Lend-Lease Act-passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the US.
33. Douglas McArthur- was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.
34. Dwight Eisenhower- was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961.
35. George S Patton- was a United States Army officer most famous for his leadership commanding corps and armies as a general in World War II. He was also widely known for his controversial outspokenness and strong opinions.
36. Battle of Midway-turning point of WW11 in the pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped.
37. Internment- temporary imprisonment of member of a specific group.
38. Battle of the Bulge- in December 1944, hilter ordered a counterattack on allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops.
39. Harry Truman- was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953).
40. Manhattan Project- code name of the project that develop the atomic bomb.
41. Nuremburg Laws- laws enacted by Hilter that denied German citizenship to Jews.
42. Kristallnacht- literally "Crystal Night") or the Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938.

Birth of a Nation Webquest Words

1. Articles of Confederation- original federal constitution drafted by the continental congress in 1777.
   2. Shay’s Rebellion- farmers rebellion led by Daniel Shays against higher taxes in Massachusetts
   3. Great Compromise- compromise between the VA and NJ plans for a bicameral legislature each state would have equal representation in the senate.
   4. Federalism- political system in which power is shared between the national government and state government
   5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise- compromise in which each enslaved person would be counted as three fifths
   6. Whiskey Rebellion- 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania that opposed the federal excise tax on whiskey
   7. Little Turtle
   8. Alien and Sedition Acts- 1798 laws that allowed the government to imprison or deport aliens, and to prosecute its critic
   9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787- law which provided a basic for governing the northwest territory
   10. Louisiana Purchase-1803 purchase from France by the united states of the territory between the Miss river and rocky mountains
   11. Monroe Doctrine- foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that discourage European intervention in the western hemisphere.
   12. Impressments- policy of seizing people of property for military or public service
   13. Star Spangled Banner- written by Francis Scott key in 1814 which became the national anthem in 1931.
   14. Eerie Canal-canal complete in 1825 that connected lake Erie to the Hudson river.
   15. Samuel Slater- a skilled worker
   16. Eli Whitney- he invented the cotton gin
   17. Horace Mann- he builds schools because they didn’t have any public schools for the children to go to.
   18. Temperance Movement- movement aimed to stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.
   19. Seneca Falls Convention-in new York in 1848 the first women’s rights convention in the United States
   20. Indian Removal Act-passed by congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Indians.
   21. Alamo- fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of the 1836 defeat and slaughter.

UNIT 1 WORDS

1. Missionary- a person who is religious & to bring the word to other places.
2. Viceroy-someone who is a royal official who runs a country.
3. Northwest Passage- a sea passage through the Arctic Ocean & North America and in the middle of the Canadian Arctic.
4. Samuel De Champlain- The father of “New France”
5. Charter- is the grant of rights.
6. Joint stock company-a type of business involving two or more people.
7. Powhatan- the father of Pocahontas
8. House of Burgess- was elected lower house in the legislative assembly.
9. Royal Colony- a colony ruled.
10. Proprietary Colony-is a colony that is more private land owners.
11. Puritan- a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England
12. Separatist-a person who separates or leaves from the church.
13. Pilgrim-a traveler to a place or region.
14. Mayflower Compact-an agreement between the pilgrims on the ship and to live in a civil society living by their own laws.
15. John Winthrop-obtained a royal character and led a group of English Puritans to the New World.
16. Pequot War- a war between Connecticut colonists that happened in 1637.
17. King Phillip’s War- was a conflict between the Native Americans and their Native American allies from 1675-1676.
18. Bacon’s Rebellion- was uprising in 1676 in Virginia Colony, the leader was Nathaniel Bacon. The first rebellion was the American colonies.
19. Pocahontas- was an Indian princess and have assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown and converted to Christianity.
20. Walter Raleigh- was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, and solider. He was born to a protestant family.
21. Indentured servant-a laborer under contract for a fixed period of time.
22. Triangular trade- brings foods or trading between America, Africa and Europe.
23. Magna Carta- is an English legal character
24. English Bill of Rights- an act declaring the rights and passed by parliament in December 1689.
25. Habeas corpus- is a legal action which a person can seek relief from unlawful punishment.
26. Salutary neglect- was an undocumented. British policy avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws.
27. Mercantilism- is an economic theory that holds the prosperity.
28. Navigation Act- a series of laws that were restricted the giving of foreign shipping between England.
29. Enlightenment- is used to describe a time in western philosophy and cultural.
30. Benjamin Franklin- 1706–90, American statesman, diplomat, author, scientist, and inventor.
31. George Washington-was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
32. French Indian War- the war between Great Britain and France in North American 1754-1763.
33. Pontiac’s Rebellion- a war in 1763 of Native American tribes from the Great Lakes region.
34. Proclamation of 1763- was issued October 7, 1763 by King George 3rd after the French and Indian war & The Seven Years’ War
35. Albany Plan of Union-in 1754 was proposed by Ben Franklin at the Albany Congress.
36. Stamp Act- was taxed imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.
37. John Adams- an American politician & the 2nd president of the United States (1797-1801).
38. Patrick Henry- served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia 1776 to 1779.
39. Sons of Liberty- was a secret organization of American patriots which originated in the pre-independence British North American colonies
40. non-importation agreement-
41. Boston Massacre- was an incident led to deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on march 5,1770
42. committee of correspondence- were bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies
43. Boston Tea Party- direct action by colonists the officials refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain.
44. Intolerable Acts- laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
45. First Continental Congress- was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774
46. Militia- composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense
47. Loyalist- American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain
48. Second Continental Congress- declaration of independent was adopted by the second cont. congress
49. George Washington-
50. Thomas Paine- was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary and the author of common sense.
51. Declaration of Independence- July 4,1776
52. Thomas Jefferson- was the 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence(1776),
53. Natural Rights
54. Cornwallis- surrender at Yorktown
55. Yorktown
56. Saratoga-battle in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War.