Period 7A
Foreign Policy
• What motivated American expansionism in
the late nineteenth century?
• Describe the path the US took as imperialists.
• What issues surrounded the debate about
American imperialism?
Progressivism
• Who were its proponents, and why did
they target the city for reform?
• What were muckrakers?
• In what ways did Progressives have
success, in what ways did they not?
TR
• How did Theodore Roosevelt put
progressivism into action as president?
• What was his attitude toward trusts and
big business?
• What were his efforts as a
conservationist and as a diplomat?
Woodrow Wilson
• What reforms did he support, and what
were his views on the tariff issue,
banking, and trusts?
• Why did Wilson earn the name “the
reluctant Progressive”?
Limits to Reform
• What were the limits of progressive
reform?
• what organizations offered more radical
visions of America’s future?
• Why did some critics charge the
movement with advocating reform “for
white men only”?
Foreign Policy
• What was Woodrow Wilson’s prewar
foreign policy?
• Why did Wilson advocate U.S.
neutrality?
• What events prompted the United
States to abandon its neutral position
and enter the war?
The Zimmerman Note
Shell-shocked
No-Man’s Land
“Over the Top!”
Technology of WWI
The Committee of Public
Information
• What were some of the effects of the
war propaganda against the Germans?
• What was the purpose of the
propaganda?
Red Scare
• What caused the
Red Scare?
Great Migration
What are the routes?
What is it?
• The Harlem Renaissance was a
flowering of African American social
thought which was expressed through
– Paintings
– Music
– Dance
– Theater
– Literature
Where is Harlem?
The island of Manhattan
New York City is on Manhattan island
Neighborhoods
Where was the Harlem
Renaissance centered?
• Centered in the
Harlem district of
New York City,
the New Negro
Movement (as it
was called at the
time) had a major
influence across
the Unites States
and even the
world.
How does the Harlem
Renaissance connect to
the Great Migration?
• How did it impact history?
Langston Hughes
• Hughes is known for his
insightful, colorful, realistic
portrayals of black life in
America.
• He wrote poetry, short stories,
novels, and plays, and is known
for his involvement with the world
of jazz and the influence it had
on his writing.
• His life and work were
enormously important in shaping
the artistic contributions of the
Harlem Renaissance in the
1920s.
• He wanted to tell the stories of
his people in ways that reflected
their actual culture, including
both their suffering and their love
of music, laughter, and language
Post WWI
• What was Wilson’s vision for a post war
world, and how was that vision
compromised at Versailles?
• What was the fate of the Paris peace
treaty in the U.S. Senate, and why did it
face so much opposition?
Domestic Threats
• What threats did democracy face in the
immediate postwar period?
Consumerism
• In what ways did business and industry
contribute to the beginning of a “new
era” in the 1920s?
• How did mass production fuel the
growth of a new consumer culture?
• What were the effects of this new
culture?
Social Movements
• How did Prohibition play out in the 1920s?
• What were the “new woman” and the “new
Negro” movements?
• How did the film industry and professional
sports contribute to popular culture of the
1920s?
• How did artists and intellectuals respond to
this mass culture?
Dark Side of the ‘20s
• How did the reemergence of
immigration restriction, the rebirth of the
Ku Klux Klan, the Scopes trial, and the
presidential election of 1928 embody
the rejection of modernity?