Period 7 (1890-1945)
An increasingly pluralistic U.S. faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated
the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
Key Concepts
7.1: Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale
industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass
migration.
7.2: A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass culture
and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under the
pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
7.3: Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies renewed debates over the nation’s values
and its role in the world while simultaneously propelling the United States into a dominant international
military, political, cultural, and economic position.
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Things to Know – America Becomes a World Power & Progressivism:
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Imperialism
muckrakers
Ida M. Tarbell
Wilson's Moral Diplomacy
Alfred T. Mahan
Hawaii
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
U.S. Neutrality
Queen Lil
Lusitania
Amendments: 16, 17, 18, 19
Local Gov't Reform
Sanford B. Dole
U.S. Entry into WWI
McKinley Tariff 1890
Robert M. La Follette
Zimmerman Note
Hearst and Pulitzer
U-boats
Settlement House Movement
Yellow journalism
Committee on Public Information
Jane Addams
USS Maine
Factory Reform
4 minute men
WCTU
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Spanish-American War
Rough Riders
Schenck v. U.S.
Frances Willard
Theodore Roosevelt
Muller v. Oregon
War Industries Board
Treaty of Paris 1898
Roosevelt's Square Deal
Great Migration
Women & the War Effort
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Progressive Party
Food Administration
1898
Upton Sinclair
Anti-Imperialist League
Fuel Administration
Pure Food and Drug Act
Insular Cases
National Park System
American Expeditionary Forces
Emilio Aguinaldo
Conservation Movement
Gen. John J. “Blackjack” Pershing
Panic of 1907 - Effects
Open Door Policy
1914-1918
John Hay
Taft's Domestic & Foreign Policy
Selective Service Act
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
missionaries
WWI Technology
Boxer Rebellion
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Western Front
Theodore Roosevelt
WEB Du Bois
Battle of the Argonne Forest
Big Stick Diplomacy
Susan B. Anthony
Sgt. Alvin York
Big Four
Panama Canal
Social Gospel
Roosevelt Corollary to M.D.
Election of 1912
Treaty of Versailles 1919
Gentlemen's Agreement
Triple Wall of Privilege
League of Nations - controversy
Dollar Diplomacy
Federal Reserve Act 1913
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jacob Riis
Federal Trade Commission Act
Wilson's 14 Points
The American Pageant Chapters:
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Things to Know – Roaring 20s, Great Depression, & New Deal:
Edward Hopper
Red Scare
Mexican Deportation (Depression)
Fundamentalism v. Modernism
Election of 1932
Emergency Quota Act 1921
FDR's 1st Hundred Days
Immigration Act 1924
Amer. Indian Citizenship Act 1924
quota system
Eugenics
New Deal
Washington Naval Conference
Banking Reform (Acts/Orgs.)
Prohibition
Organized Crime in Chicago
1929
FDIC
Scopes Monkey Trial
Laissez-faire
SEC
Clarence Darrow
Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Social Security
fireside chats
William Jennings Bryan
stock market speculation
Employment/Labor Reform
Glenn Curtiss
Teapot Dome Scandal
Automobiles
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Luisa Moreno
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Farming Reform (Acts/Orgs.)
Henry Ford
Dawes Plan 1924
National Recovery Administration
Assembly line manufacturing
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Indian Reorganization Act 1934
Charles Lindbergh
Tennessee Valley Authority
Radio Age
Black Tuesday
Motion Pictures
Housing Reform (Acts/Orgs.)
Causes of the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
Flappers
FDR's Court-packing plan
Jazz
Bonus Army
deficit spending
Hatch Act
Harlem Renaissance
Dust Bowl
Federal Writers’ Project
Marcus Garvey
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)
Lost Generation
New Deal Critics (Huey Long)
Eleanor Roosevelt
The American Pageant Chapters:
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Isolationism as Foreign Policy
Stimson Doctrine
Dictatorships: Italy, Germany, Japan
Appeasement
"Quarantine Speech"
Nonaggression Pact
Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry Policy
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Convoy System
German, Italian, Japanese Aggression
Pearl Harbor
1939-1945
FDR
Truman
US Office of War Information
Executive Order 9066
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Things to Know – WWII:
internment
Korematsu v. US
Wartime Agencies
Manhattan Project
Women and the War Effort
Minorities and the War Effort
Battle of the Atlantic
Development of sonar
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Normandy (D-Day)
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Island-Hopping
Bataan Death March
Liberation of concentration camps
Omar Bradley
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester A. Nimitz
George Marshall
George Patton
Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Manhattan Project
Use of Atomic Bomb – controversy
Nuremberg Trials
Effects of WWII
Bracero program
Immigration to the US
War bonds
Victory Gardens
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers
rationing
Vernon J. Baker