American History Webquest Bundle (1877-2001)

The bundle contains 34 webquests for essential content in American History from 1877-2001. Students will use kid-friendly websites to answer the questions. Each lesson will take at least one class period to complete. I have included answer keys. Please message me if you have any questions.

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The following webquests are included:

American West Webquest (45 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Chief Joseph
• Cattle Drives
• Cowboys
• Indian Wars
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Wounded Knee

Industrial Revolution Webquest (38 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
• Causes of the Industrial Revolution
• Negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution
• Inventions (spinning jenny, power loom, steam engine)
• Henry Bessemer
• Transportation and the Industrial Revolution (Steamboat and Locomotive)
• Communication and Banking in the Industrial Revolution (Telegraph)
• Quality of life during Industrialization (social groups, overcrowding, pollution, unsanitary living conditions)
• Industrialization Beyond Britain
• Jacob Riss (1890 Life in the City)
• Andrew Carnegie
• Child labor

Gilded Age Webquest (41 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Tycoons
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Robber Barons
• Industries Dominated by Robber Barons
• Industrial Revolution
• Reasons for Immigration
• Effects of Immigration
• Effects of Rapid Population Growth
• Gilded Age Homes
• Vanderbilt Estate
• Income Inequality
• Social Darwinism
• Muckrakers
• Jacob Riis
• How the Other Half Lives
• John D. Rockefeller
• Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
• Labor Unions
• Railroad Strikes
• Engineering Advances
• Electricity
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Women in the Gilded Age
• Women's Suffrage
• Women's Philanthropy
• Jane Addams and the Chicago Hull-House
• Carrie Nation
• 18th and 19th Amendments
• Native Americans during the Gilded Age
• Effects of the Populist Party
• End of the Gilded Age
• Panic of 1893
• Progressive Movement
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Reforms during the Progressive Era
• World War I

Progressive Era Webquest (37 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Urbanization
• Progressive writers
• Populist influence on progressivism
• Muckrakers
• Progressive publications
• Upton Sinclair
• The Jungle
• Effects of Sinclair exposing the meatpacking industry
• Women’s suffrage
• Divisions in the women suffrage movement
• Lucy Stone
• Henry Blackwell
• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• National Women Suffrage Association
• American Woman Suffrage Association
• Nineteenth Amendment
• Booker T. Washington
• Washington’s speech at the Atlanta Exposition
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Tuskegee Institute
• George Washington Carver
• Washington’s goal of focusing on vocational skills for African Americans
• W.E.B. DuBois’ goal of complete integration and equality
• NAACP

Teddy Roosevelt and Progressivism (38 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Roosevelt’s Accomplishments
• Opposition to Big Business
• Capitalism
• The Trust Buster
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Teddy vs. J.P. Morgan
• Miners and Owners at Loggerheads
• Roosevelt’s Popularity
• Progressivism
• Helping the Working Class
• John Muir
• Sierra Club
• Roosevelt Protects Public Lands
• Newlands Reclamation Act
• Financial Panic
• Taft’s Progressive Reforms
• Election of 1912
• Progressives and Conservatives
• Roosevelt challenged Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912
• Federal Trade Commission
• New Nationalism

World War I Webquest (40 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Causes of World War I (militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism)
• The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
• Schlieffen Plan
• Battle of Tannenberg
• First Battle of the Marne
• The sinking of the Lusitania
• Battle of the Somme
• Russian Revolution
• Hundred Days Offensive
• Paris Peace Conference

Spanish Flu Webquest (27 questions)

Topics:

• Cause of the Spanish Flu
• Blame for the virus
• Prevention methods
• Flu transmission
• Flu symptoms
• The effect on society
• Communities respond to the pandemic
• The flu and World War I
• The reason the 1918 flu was so deadly
• The pandemic ends

Prohibition Webquest (28 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Origins of Prohibition
• Second Great Awakening
• Temperance Movement
• Anti-Saloon League
• Religious revivalists
• Teetotaler groups
• 18th Amendment
• Volstead Act
• Enforcement of Prohibition
• “Bootlegging”
• “Speakeasies”
• Al Capone
• Purchasing alcohol during Prohibition
• Anti-Prohibition activists
• The End of Prohibition
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 21st Amendment

The Roaring Twenties Webquest (27 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Consumer society
• Mass culture
• The New Woman
• Flapper
• 19th Amendment
• Labor-saving appliances
• Radio
• Movies
• Automobiles
• The Jazz Age
• The Charleston
• Prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• Bootleggers
• Organized Crime
• Al Capone
• The Great Migration
• Ku Klux Klan
• Nativist Movement

Pearl Harbor Webquest (23 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Japan
• Causes and effects of Pearl Harbor
• American naval vessels, battleships, and airplanes destroyed
• Casualties
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Japan and the Road to War
• Japan expanding into China
• The U.S. response to Japan declaring war on China
• Economic sanctions against Japan
• Undefended facilities at Pearl Harbor
• USS Arizona
• Reasons Japan wanted to destroy the Pacific Fleet
• Impact of the attack
• Aircraft fleet not at Pearl Harbor
• The U.S. navy rebounds quickly
• FDR's speech "A Date which will Live in Infamy"
• America enters World War II
• American people united to go to war
• Congress approved FDR's declaration of war
• German and Italy declare war against the United States

The Great Depression Webquest (34 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Causes and effects of the Great Depression
• Stock Market Crash
• Unemployment numbers
• "Roaring Twenties"
• Recession
• Investors
• "Black Thursday"
• "Black Tuesday"
• Stock market crash spread throughout the world
• Gold standard
• Hoover administration handling of the crisis
• Effects on American towns and cities (bread lines, soup kitchens, and homeless people)
• Effects on farmers (crops rotting in the fields)
• Bank closures
• FDR and the New Deal
• Percentage of US unemployment
• FDR's "bank holiday"
• "Fireside chats"
• FDR's first 100 days
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Institutions created by the New Deal
• Political movements caused by Depression-era hardships
• Economic effects of FDR's decision to support Britan and France during WWII.
• Social Security Act

New Deal Webquest (30 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• FDR's Promises
• Unemployment percentages
• FDR's Inaugural Address
• "Fireside Chats"
• First Hundred Days
• Great Depression
• Prohibition
• TVA Act
• Effects of the National Industrial Recovery Act
• Second New Deal
• Works Progress Administration
• Wagner Act
• Effects of the Social Security Act of 1935
• FDR's Second Term
• Organized Money
• The Supreme Court during FDR's Presidency
• National Recovery Administration
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration
• FDR's Plan to Protect his Programs
• Difficulties in 1937
• Recession
• Anti-Roosevelt Sentiment
• United States enters World War II
• New Deal Programs and American Politics
• New Deal Programs Today

World War II Webquest (30 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Pearl Harbor
• American casualties
• Japan entering China
• Japanese Soldier's Individual Flag meaning
• Three things Hitler and the Nazi Party rebuilt in 1933
• Causes of WW2
• German Nazi Swastika Flag meaning
• Machine guns
• Benito Mussolini
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• FDR and the radio
• Women in WW2
• "I Want You" poster meaning
• German submarines
• D-Day
• Battle of the Bulge
• Holocaust
• Miracle at Midway
• President Truman
• Atomic bomb
• Vital weapons used during the war
• Nurses and the Red Cross
• African Americans
• United Nations

Life in Nazi Germany (34 questions)

Topics:

• Employment and Living Standards
• Nazi Policies Towards Women
• Nazi Aims and Policies Towards Children
• The Persecution of Minorities
• The Police State (SS, Gestapo, and SD)
• Nazi Propaganda
• Hitler’s Foreign Policy and the Build up to War

Japanese Internment Camps (28 questions)
Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• WWII and Pearl Harbor
• Causes of Japanese internment
• President Roosevelt
• Anti-Japanese paranoia
• Executive Order 9066
• The financial impact of internment
• Life inside the internment camps
• Nisei
• Hardships faced by Japanese Americans
• Korematsu v. the United States
• U.S. government apologizes for wartime incarceration
• Photographs of Japanese Americans being relocated
• Constitutional issues of internment

Manhattan Project Webquest (25 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• American-led effort to develop an atomic weapon
• FDR authorizes the formation of the Manhattan Project
• Los Alamos, New Mexico
• Robert Oppenheimer and Project Y
• Trinity Test
• Little Boy and Fat Man
• Potsdam Conference
• U.S. ultimatum to Japan
• Hirohito’s response to the Potsdam Declaration
• Death and destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• President Truman’s decision to drop to atomic bombs
• Japanese Surrender
• Legacy of the Manhattan Project
• Atomic Diplomacy School condemns President Truman

Holocaust Webquest (35 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• The past and present meaning of "Holocaust"
• Reasons why Adolf Hitler did not like the Jewish people
• Anti-Semitic & Hitler's Rise to Power
• Nazi Revolution in Germany
• Beginning of the War
• The "Final Solution"
• Holocaust Death Camps
• Nazi Rule Comes to an end, as the Holocaust continues to claim lives
• Aftermath & lasting impact of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Concentration Camps Photo Gallery

Nuremberg Trials Webquest (27 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Purpose of the Nuremberg trials
• Date and location
• Hitler and the Nazi government
• Nations administering the trials
• The three major charges for each criminal
• Effects of the trials
• Nuremberg Charter
• The Major War Criminals’ Trial
• Allied powers and judges
• Indicted individuals
• Common defense strategies
• Subsequent Trials 1946-49
• Groups accused of crimes during the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
• Impact of the Nuremberg trials

Cuban Missile Crisis (30 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Bay of Pigs
• Discovering the missiles
• Fidel Castro
• Cuba and the Soviet Union
• American U-2 Spy Plane
• American officials concern about nuclear missiles in Cuba
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Soviet Unions’ reason for missiles in Cuba
• Kennedy and ExCom
• Kennedy’s naval blockade of Cuba
• U.S. Navy vessel and a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine
• DEF CON 2
• Kennedy’s television broadcast
• U.S. invasion force readied
• American plane shot down over Cuba
• A deal between the Kennedy administration and Khrushchev
• “Hotline” communication link
• Effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cold War Webquest (36 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Cause of the Cold War
• Containment
• The Atomic Age
• Space
• The Red Scare
• North Korea
• Close of the War

Kennedy Era Webquest (32 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Early life
• Beginnings in Politics
• Jackie Lee Bouvier
• JFK's Road to the Presidency
• Lyndon Johnson
• 1960 Election
• Richard Nixon
• Televised debates
• JFK's Inaugural Address
• JFK's Foreign Policy Challenges
• Bay of Pigs
• Communist leader Fidel Castro
• Berlin Wall
• Naval blockade of Cuba
• Foreign affairs victory
• Conflict in Southeast Asia
• Vietnam
• JFK's Leadership at Home
• Peace Corps
• JFK's Legislative Priorities
• Civil Rights Bill
• JFK's response to riots at the University of Mississippi
• JFK's assassination
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Conspiracy theories

LBJs Great Society Webquest (22 questions)

Topics:

• The goals of LBJ’s Great Society
• Americans have empathy for LBJ
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• War on poverty
• Economic Opportunity Act
• Great Society Programs
• Medicare and Medicaid
• Head Start and Education Reform
• Urban Renewal
• Support for Arts and Humanities
• Environmental Initiatives
• Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Child Safety Act
• Opposition to LBJ’s programs and the Vietnam War

Civil Rights Era Webquest (30 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Rosa Parks
• Segregation
• Discrimination
• Thurgood Marshall
• James Meredith
• Jackie Robinson
• Freedom Riders
• 1963 March on Washington
• The Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Boycotts
• 24th Amendment
• Malcolm X
• Selma
• Civil Right Act of 1965
• Rodney King

Martin Luther King, Jr. Webquest (31 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Civil Rights Movement
• Goals of MLK
• Peaceful protest
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1963 March on Washington
• School life
• Marriage
• People that influenced MLK (Gandhi)
• Attacks on MLK
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Nonviolent protest (boycotts, marches, and sit-ins)
• Civil Rights Manifesto (Letter from Birmingham Jail)
• Effects of the March on Washington
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• "I Have a Dream" speech
• Violence in Selma
• Selma to Montgomery march
• Voting Rights Act
• Assassination

Richard Nixon-The Watergate Scandal (30 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Nixon’s re-election campaign
• Watergate break-in
• Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
• Nixon’s obstruction of justice
• Nixon’s taped conversations
• Saturday Night Massacre
• Nixon Resigns
• Gerald Ford
• Ford’s pardon of Nixon
• American views of the U.S. government change after Watergate

Vietnam War Webquest (41 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Roots of the Vietnam War
• U.S. Intervention
• Strategy of Attrition
• Impact of the Tet Offensive
• Vietnamization
• Legacy of the War

McCarthyism and the Red Scare Webquest (29 questions)

Topics:

• The First Red Scare (1917-1920)
• Communist party
• Palmer raids
• Cold War concerns about communism
• Loyalty Order
• McCarthyism
• The House Un-American Activities Committee
• Hollywood blacklists
• J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
• The Rosenbergs
• Hysteria and growing conservatism
• Advances in communism around the world
• Dennis v. The United States
• Impact of the Red Scare
• The Red Scare ends

Reagan Era Webquest (37 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• 1980 Presidential Election
• Reagan Democrats
• Jimmy Carter
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Assassination Attempt
• 1984 Presidential Election
• Walter Mondale
• Reaganomics
• Trickle-Down Economics
• Recession
• Defense Spending
• National Debt
• Strategic Defense Initiative
• Reagan and Gorbachev
• Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty
• Freedom Fighters
• Communism
• Bombing of Libya
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Life in the 1980s
• Drug Problems in the 1980s
• Spread of Diseases
• End of the Cold War
• Gorbachev's Policies of Glasnost and Perestroika
• The Unraveling of the Soviet Bloc
• Poland Elects a Noncommunist Government
• The Soviet Union is Dissolved

Iran Hostage Crisis Webquest (31 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Causes of the Hostage Crisis
• The U.S. Embassy in Tehran
• President Carter
• The Shah and the C.I.A.
• 1953 Coup
• The Iranian Revolution
• Operation Eagle Claw
• Iranians want Shah in exchange for Hostages
• Media's Coverage of the Crisis
• The 1980 Election
• Ronald Reagan
• Reagan's Campaign Staff and the Iranians
• U.S. and Iran Negotiations
• The Release of the Hostages

Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm) Webquest (30 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Background of the Persian Gulf War
• Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait & Allied Response
• The Gulf War Begins
• Air Offensive in Iraq
• War on the Ground
• The aftermath of the Persian Gulf War

September 11 Attacks Webquest (28 questions)

Topics/Key Vocabulary:

• Causes and effects of 9/11
• Al-Qaeda
• Casualties
• World Trade Center
• Osama bin Laden
• Reasons al-Qaeda attacked America
• Pentagon Attack
• Effect of the 757 on the Pentagon
• Twin Towers Collapse
• Cause of the World Trade Center collapse
• World Trade Center Data (casualties and survivors)
• Flight 93
• Passengers on Flight 93 attack cockpit
• Flight 93 crash in western Pennsylvania
• Three theories of intended targets of Flight 93
• Total number of people killed in the 9/11 attacks
• America's response to 9/11
• George W. Bush
• Operation Enduring Freedom
• Taliban
• Death of Osama bin Laden
• President Obama's June 2011 announcement

Death of Osama bin Laden Webquest (21 questions)

Topics:

• Early life
• The Pan-Islamist Idea
• Building Al Qaeda
• Reasons bin Laden declared war on the United States
• Worldwide Jihad
• Al Qaeda’s violent Jihad
• Saudi Arabia
• September 11 Attacks
• Bin Laden in hiding
• Pakistan
• Navy SEALS kill bin Laden
• U.S. counterterrorism