APUSH Study Guide – Historical Periods 7
Period 7: 1890 – 1945 (Chapters 20-25)
1.Women’s suffrage
When women join the workforce it makes it more difficult to raise families.
Booker T. Washington’s approach to Civil Rights
Tuskegee Institute
W.E.B. Du Bois’ approach to Civil Rights
Niagara Convention
NAACP
2. Marcus Garvey’s approach to Civil Rights
Open Door Policy
Spheres of Influence
Boxer Rebellion
American Imperialism
Imperialism and expansionism
Spanish American War
Sinking of the Maine
Jingoism
Filipino question of annexing the Philippines
White Men’s Burden
3. Social Darwinism
4. Gentlemen’s Agreement
5. Yellow Peril
6. Know Nothings and xenophobia
7. Mugwumps
WWI (1914-1918)
US involvement in WWI (April 1917 to November 11, 1918) (Armistice Day)
Zimmerman Telegram
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Woodrow Wilson
14 Points
Pt. #2 – Freedom of the Seas
8. Nye committee’s interpretation why US entered WWI
Modernists and Fundamentalists
Scopes Trial
Warren G. Harding and “Return to Normalcy”
Progressivism time period
Progressive philosophy towards business
9. Flappers vs. Gibson girl
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
Muckrakers
Meat Inspection Act
And Food and Drug Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Causes of Great Depression
Consumerism
Buying on credit
Speculation
10. Farmers suffering the worst during Great Depression-Why?
Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Know one African American artist’s achievement during this time
Racial prejudice faced by AA during the 1920s.
Scopes
Religion and science source of conflict in the 1920s
What changed American attitudes during the 1920s towards Prohibion?
Important differences in immigration legislation of the 1920s
How did media of the 1920s contribute to shared national culture?
11. Why were writers of the 1920s disillusioned?
Know one important artistic response during the 1920s and 1930s to industrial
development or urban experience.
Herbert Hoover
12. Hoovervilles
Great Depression
a). buying on margin
b). speculation
America First Committee attitude towards involvement in war
Charles Lindberg as isolationist
13. Rosie the Riveter
14. WWII – Europe and the Pacific
US propaganda against Germany
FDR
New Deal
15. Father Coughlin
16. Dr. Francis Townsend Plan
17. FDR and the Court Packing Plan
18 Executive Order 9066
19. Manhattan Project
20. United Nations
21. Holocaust