APUSH Period 7 Review (1898-1945)

PERIOD 7 DATES TO KNOW

PERIOD 7 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

1. What were the goals and achievements of the Progressive Era?
2. How did the growth of mass culture affect US society?
3. In what ways did the global conflicts of the early 20th century affect the United States?

Past Essay Questions from Period 7

PERIOD 7 KEY CONCEPTS - COURSE OUTLINE

7.1. Reforms in US Society

1. The US continued to transition from rural to urban economies led by large corporations.
   1. New technology increased production of consumer goods.
   2. Most Americans lived in cities by 1920, which had more opportunities.
   3. The Great Depression forced calls for more financial regulation.
2. Progressive activists called for reforms to combat political corruption and instability.
   1. ☮️ Study Guide: Progressivism
   2. Journalists investigated inequality and injustice (muckrakers).
   3. Activists fought for federal legislation to expand rights (prohibition, suffrage).
   4. Environmentalists sought to protect natural resources.
   5. Progressive activists disagreed on racial justice and immigration restrictions.
3. Legislation was enacted in the 1930s to recover and reform the economy while providing relief for mass unemployment and financial crises.
   1. Roosevelt enacted New Deal policies in an attempt to end the Great Depression.
   2. Progressive activists pushed FDR to do more while conservatives pushed for less.
   3. The New Deal did not end the Great Depression, but it left a legacy of reforms and align many groups with the Democratic Party.

7.2. Growth of Mass Culture

1. Popular culture influenced and connected more people.
   1. New mass media (radio, cinema) spread national culture and connected regions.
   2. Migrations sparked new forms of art and literature
   3. Fear of communism during World War I led to restrictions on speech.
   1. 🔴 Study Guide: Cultural and Political Controversy
   4. Controversies over gender, science, religion, race, and immigration.
2. Migration patterns were influenced by global conflict.
   1. After WWI, immigration quotas were passed that favored white migrants.
   2. Americans migrated to cities for economic opportunities during war.
   3. Black men and women migrated north and west to escape violence in the south.
   4. Migration to the US from Mexico increased.

7.3. Global Conflicts

1. The US participated in imperialism ventures around the world, which sparked debates.
   1. The argument for imperialism cited opportunities, racist ideologies, and competition.
   2. The argument against imperialism cited self-determination and isolationism.
   1. Study Guide: Imperilaism Debates
   3. Victory in the Spanish-American war gave the US lands in the Caribbean and Pacific.
   1. 🔥 Study Guide: The Spanish American War
2. World War I intensified debates about the role of the US in the world.
   1. The US eventually joined WWI, reversing neutrality policy.
   1. 💣Study Guide: Buildup to War and the AEF
   2. 🏭Study Guide: War on the Home Front
   2. US forces in WWI tipped the balance in the favor of the Allies.
   3. Neither the Treaty of Versailles or the League of Nations were ratified by the senate.
   4. After WWI, the US pursued foreign policy using investment, treaties, and intervention.
   5. During the 1930s, most Americans opposed actions against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan, until after the attack on Pearl Harbor pulled the US into WWII.
   1. 🙅 Study Guide: Interwar Foreign Policy
3. WWII transformed American society and resulted in the US as a global superpower.
   1. Americans saw the war as defending freedom.
   2. Wartime mobilization helped end the Great Depression.
   1. 🎖️ Study Guide: Mobilization
   3. Women and minorities had more opportunities for mobility and work during the war.
   4. The Allies won WWII because of technology, cooperation, and military strategy.
   1. 🔫 Study Guide: Military Action in WWII
   5. With Asia and Europe ravaged from the war, the US emerged as the most powerful.

LIST OF CONCEPTS & VOCABULARY FROM PERIOD 7

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 20th Amendment
• 21st Amendment
• Albert Einstein
• American plan
• annexation
• Anti-imperialist League
• Appeasement
• assembly line
• Atlantic Charter
• Australian ballot
• Big-Stick Policy
• Birth of a Nation
• Black Tuesday
• Bolshevik Revolution
• Bonus Army
• Central Powers
• Charles Lindbergh
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• code talkers
• Committee on Public Information
• consumer culture
• Court-packing plan
• Dawes Plan
• direct primary
• dollar diplomacy
• Double V
• Dust Bowl
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Espionage Act
• Executive Order 9066
• fascism
• Father Charles Coughlin
• Florence Kelley
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Gentlemen's Agreement
• Good Neighbor Policy
• Great Migration
• Harlem Renaissance
• Harry Truman
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Henry Ford
• Hoovervilles
• Huey P. Long
• Hundred Days
• Immigration Quotas 1921 & 1924
• imperialism
• initiative
• isolationism
• Jacob Riis
• jingoism
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Keynesian economics
• Korematsu v. US
• Langston Hughes
• League of Nations
• Lend-Lease Act
• Lost Generation
• Manhattan Project
• Marcus Garvey
• Meat Inspection Act
• muckrakers
• Muller v. Oregon
• NAACP
• Neutrality Act
• New Deal
• Open Door Policy
• overproduction
• pan-Africanism
• Panama Canal
• Pearl Harbor
• pragmatism
• progressivism
• Pure Food & Drug Act
• Quarantine speech
• Red Scare
• referendum
• reparations
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Rosie the Riveter
• rough riders
• Sacco & Vanzetti
• Schenck v. United States
• scientific management
• Scopes Trial
• self-determination
• Sigmund Freud
• social gospel
• socialism
• Social Security Act
• Spanish-American War
• Square Deal
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Treaty of Versailles
• U-boats
• Upton Sinclair
• Volstead Act
• Wagner Act
• War Production Board
• War Refugee Board
• Wilson's 14 Points
• Women's Christian Temperance Union
• xenophobia
• yellow journalism
• Zimmerman note