APUSH UNIT 6 Exam Guide
“Modern American Emerges, 1890-1920”
Below are the topic outlines and learning targets for Unit 6. They are intended as a general guide to help
you study for exams. If you know what these terms mean and how they fit into the “big picture” of American
history you should do well on the exam.
17. Populism and Progressivism
b. Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national (12 questions)
- muckrakers, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Taylorism, scientific management, city
managers, referendum, recall, initiative, Prohibition, 16 th amendment, 17th amendment, 18th amendment, secret ballot,
socialism, Eugene V. Debs, IWW
c. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents (8 questions)
- New Nationalism, New Freedom, Election of 1912, why Republican Party split, Bull Moose Party
good trusts vs. bad trusts, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection
Act, Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Reserve Act, Gifford Pinchot, Newlands Act, Reforestation Act,
Underwood Tariff, Square Deal, Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy, Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Trade Commission,
d. Women’s roles: family workplace, education, politics, reform (6 questions)
- new women, middle class vs. working class women, settlement houses, Jane Addams, women’s
suffrage, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, state strategy vs. national strategy for suffrage, NAWSA, 19th Amendment
e. Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives (5 questions)
- Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Atlanta Exposition Speech, WEB DuBois, Niagara
Movement, Talented Tenth, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, Progressives’ views on race, NAACP, push for antilynching law, Great Migration, effects of Great Migration (i.e. racial tensions in Northern cities), examples of violence &
discrimination in the South
18. The Emergence of America as a World Power
a. American Imperialism: political and economic expansion (14 questions)
- causes of imperialism, Alfred T. Mahan, Spanish American War, Cuban revolution, Gen. Weyler,
reconcentration camps, yellow journalism, De Lome Letter, Maine, Emilio Aguinaldo, Teller Amendment, Rough
Riders, Battle of Manila Bay, Battle of San Juan Hill, Battle of Santiago Bay, Treaty of Paris, Platt Amendment, insular
cases, Philippine Insurrection, Anti-Imperialist League, William Jennings Bryan, Big Stick Diplomacy, examples of
interventionism in Latin America, Roosevelt Corollary, Hay-Bunua-Varilla Treaty, Panama Canal, Nobel Peace Prize,
John Hay, Open Door Policy,Boxer Rebellion, Venezuela Boundary Dispute, Dollar Diplomacy, Missionary Diplomacy,
intervention in Mexico, Pancho Villa, George Dewey, Josiah Strong, Portsmouth Conference, Gentleman’s Agreement
b. War in Europe and American neutrality (7 questions)
- isolationism, causes of WWI in Europe (i.e. alliance system, assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand), unrestricted submarine warfare, Lusitania, Sussex Pledge, Zimmerman Note, Election of 1916
c. WWI at home and abroad (12 questions)
- American Expeditionary Force (AEF), John J. Pershing, Battle of the Argonne Forest, convoy
system, Selective Services Act, wartime propaganda, Committee on Public Information, violation of civil liberties,
Schenk v. U.S., Espionage and Sedition Acts, effects of the war on minorities & women (i.e. economic opportunities),
Allies, Central Powers, the war the end all wars, war to make the world safe for democracy
d. Treaty of Versailles (7 questions)
- 14 Points, Paris Peace Conference, Big Four, problems with the Treaty, reparations, Henry Cabot
Lodge, Lodge Reservations, reservationists, irreconcilables, Wilson’s role in the failure of ratification, League of
Nations, Article X
e. Society and economy in the postwar years (4 questions)
- Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Boston Police Strike, U.S. Steel Corporation, Sacco and Vanzetti, race
riots, anarchists, communists, quota acts
Student Self-Reflection – Unit 6 Exam
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