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C.
D.
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18. The Emergence of America as a World Power
A.
American imperialism: political and economic expansion
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C.
D.
E.
War in Europe and American neutrality
The First World War at home and abroad
Treaty of Versailles
Society and economy in the postwar years
19. The New Era: 1920s
A. The business of America and the consumer economy
Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment
Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition
The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/history_us/topics_1_9.html?ushist
Imperialism to Isolationism: 1898-1929 http://www.mrburnett.net/APUSHistory/APUSHistory2.htm
14. For what reasons did America pursue imperialistic policies in the last decade of the 19th century? Why not before?
15. To what extent could Cubans, Filipinos, and Hawaiians find fault with America’s foreign policy?
16. Why was the handling of the Philippines different from any other territory acquired by the United States?
17. What was the logic behind America’s Open Door Policy?
18. Why was the Progressive Movement successful while the Populist Movement failed?
19. What muckraking literature helped open America’s eyes to injustices? Were “muckrakers” humanitarians?
20. What were the key figures and the key issues involved in the movements for African-American and Women’s equality?
21. What steps were taken to reduce corruption at the city and state level?
22. What role did Presidents take in the Progressive Movement?
23. What anti-imperialistic complaints were lodged against the building of the Panama Canal?
24. How did America become involved in World War I? Why did they enter on the side of the British?
25. To what extend were Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic views accepted by Americans and the world?
26. What events helped change American public opinion from one of neutrality to one of intervention?
1. What steps did America take to prepare economically for war?
2. To what extent were civil liberties abused during World War I?
3. To what extent did the techniques and ideologies employed by the Committee on Public Information transfer afterward to the policies employed during the Red Scare?
4. How did World War I affect African-Americans and women?
5. What were Woodrow Wilson’s main goals in his Fourteen Points? What was the public reaction to his ideas?
1. In what ways did the policies of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover reverse the successes of the Progressive Era?
2. What was the effect of the consumer products of the 1920s on social behavior?
3. How did the Harlem Renaissance represent a shift in the role of African-Americans in society?
4. In the conflict of fundamentalism vs. modernism, what organizations and events proved that America was not ready for changes in immigration, race relations, and social change?

Rough Riders, San Juan Hill
Treaty of Paris, 1898
American Anti-Imperialist League
Insular cases
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
Aguinaldo, Philippine Insurrection
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Gentlemen's Agreement
Great White Fleet
"Muckrakers"
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Margaret Sanger (1883-1966)
Initiative, referendum, recall
Direct Primary
16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Amendments
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Anti-Saloon League
Square Deal
Forest Reserve Act, 1891
Mann-Elkins Act, 1910
"Trustbuster"
Meat Inspection Act Palmer raids
 Analyze Progressive Era reforms in the period 1880-1929. Focus your essay on TWO of the following. o Work conditions o Urban life o Social conditions
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To what extent was economic development an integral part of the Roaring 20’s? Confine your answer to the period 1920-1929.
 Analyze the effects of the Red Scare. Confine your answer to the period 1919-1920.
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Analyze the contributions made in two of the following areas in the United States during the period 1920-1929. o Music o Painting o Architecture
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Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act
Frederick W. Taylor
Robert M. LaFollette (1855-1925)
William Howard Taft
"Dollar Diplomacy"
Taft-Roosevelt split
Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson, New Freedom
Theodore Roosevelt, New Nationalism
Jones Act
Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman note
Bolshevik Revolution
War Industries Board
Espionage Act, 1917; Sedition Act, 1918
Eugene V. Debs imprisoned
Great Migration
Fourteen Points
Versailles Treaty
League of Nations
Reparations
Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty
Red Scare
1120. Normalcy
Teapot Dome
Progressive Party
"The Lost Generation"
Prohibition
Volstead Act
Nativism
Fundamentalists
Immigration Acts, 1921, 1924, Quota
System
Sacco and Vanzetti case
Billy Sunday
Scopes trial
Henry Ford
Flappers
Harlem Renaissance
Charles Lindbergh
Washington Disarmament Conference,
1921-1922
Five Powers Treaty
Dawes Plan
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/car ds.php
What role did technological innovation in weaponry play in WWI? Confine your answer to the period 1914-1918
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Analyze the role of women in World War I in the United States during the period 1914-1918.
 To what extent did America become a dominant superpower after WWI? Confine your answer to the period 1918-1939. http://historynotes.net/ap-us-history-essays/