AP US History (Mr. Palmieri): Semester Two, Unit Two: 1898-1938
In this unit we will explore the US as it becomes a global power and participates in imperialist expansion in the Caribbean and
the Pacific. We will witness American involvement in World War One. We will see how the prosperity of the 1920’s
contrasted with life during the Depression of the 1930’s. We will see a society in conflict between older, traditional views and
newer, modern movements. We’ll see expansion of the federal government and emergence of a new political and economic
ideology arising through New Deal reaction to the Great Depression.
Friday, January 29: Expansionism and the Spanish-American War (c. 21) p. 629-635
1. Discuss the chronology of events in Cuba that led the U.S. to war with Spain.
2. How did yellow journalism contribute to the U.S. going to war with Spain in 1898?
3. Discuss the process by which the U.S. began to control Hawaii
Vocab: imperialism, Alfred Mahan/Influence of Sea Power, Frederick Jackson Turner (doc), Lome letter, USS Maine
Teller Amendment, Rough Riders
Doc. 21-1, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, and two questions, one from the book and one of your own
Monday, February 1: Policy in Latin America and East Asia (c. 21) p. 635-641
4. In what ways did the U.S. act imperialistically in the Philippines? Who opposed occupation of the Philippines?
5. What steps did the U.S. take to ensure a share of trade in and out of China?
6. How did the U.S. obtain territory to build the Panama Canal?
7. How did the U.S. ensure they would exert much influence in Cuba even if they couldn’t actually possess it?
8. How did events in Mexico after 1911 affect the U.S.? How did the U.S. react?
Vocab: Anti-Imperialism League, Emilio Aguinaldo, Open Door Policy, John Hay, Platt Amendment, Guantanamo Bay
big stick, Roosevelt Corollary, Pancho Villa
Tuesday, February 2: World War One (c. 21) p. 641-648
9. What forces in the U.S. caused neutrality to be the likely course of action in World War One?
10. What German actions in early 1917 pushed the U.S. to declare war?
11. How did the U.S. raise an army to send that army to Europe?
12. Discuss participation by and treatment of African-Americans and Native Americans in World War One
Vocab: Allies, Central Powers, Lusitania, Zimmerman Note, U-boats, Western Front, trench warfare, Bolshevik
Revolution, Chateau Thierry, Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Wednesday, February 3: War on the Homefront and the Treaty of Versailles (c. 21) p. 649-657
13. What were the goals and tactics of the Committee on Public Information?
14. How were political minorities such as socialists and communists treated during World War One?
15. Discuss the tactics and outcomes of the NWP and NAWSA in advocating for women’s suffrage.
16. Why did the United States ultimately not join the League of Nations, the idea of American president, Wilson?
Vocab: B. Baruch, H. Hoover/Food Administration, War Industries Board, Four Minute Men, Sedition and Espionage Acts,
Schenck v. US, George Creel, Great Migration, Alice Paul, 14 Points, Henry Cabot Lodge
Document 21-12, Wartime Propaganda Poster (1917) and outline CAPP elements
Thursday/Friday, February 4/5 (EXDAY) The Aftermath of World War One in the United States (c. 22) p. 660-665
17. What caused race riots and labor unrest in the years following World War One?
18. What were the Palmer Raids, their causes and results?
19. Who were Sacco and Vanzetti and how did their political and ethnic backgrounds affect their case?
Vocab: Margaret Sanger, NWLB, welfare capitalism, First Red Scare, FBI, J Edgar Hoover
Monday, February 8: RESEARCH PAPER NOTES DUE
Tuesday, February 9: Politics and Society in the Roaring Twenties (c. 22) p. 665-673
20. Describe the Scopes Monkey Trial and discuss what values confronted one another in the trial.
21. Discuss the rise and decline of the new KuKluxKlan. What similarities and what differences were there between the Klan
in the twenties and the Klan during Reconstruction?
22. Describe the election of 1928. What realignments were occurring (be sure to read map caption on p. 691)?
Vocab: Teapot Dome, Cal Coolidge, Dollar Diplomacy, Prohibition, Nat’l Origins Act (1924), Birth of a Nation
Wednesday, February 10: The Harlem Renaissance (c. 22) p. 673-678
23. Where were the origins of jazz? What characterized jazz, both the music and the culture? Who were fans?
24. What was the Harlem Renaissance and what characterized it?
25. What were the views of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and how do they
compare to the views of Booker T Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
Vocab: Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Augusta Savage, Mamie Smith, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair
Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Document 22-1, Returning Soldiers, W.E.B. DuBois (1919) and outline CAPP elements
Thursday, February 11: The Economic Boom of the 20’s and the Coming of the Depression (c. 22) p. 678-687
26. What parts of the economy were booming in the twenties? What parts were doing poorly?
27. What types of goods were being consumed in the new consumer economy of the 20’s? What new means were
available for people to purchase goods?
28. What causes have been proposed for the onset of the Great Depression?
Vocab: United Fruit, Model T, Stock Market Crash, Recon. Finance Corp., Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Dawes Plan
Friday, February 12: The Beginning of the Great Depression (c. 23) p. 694-700
29. List reasons why Herbert Hoover was so unpopular by 1932 (include ways in which he responded to the Depression).
What parts of the criticism do you think were fair and what part do you think was not fair?
Vocab: Hoovervilles, Farm Holiday Association, Bonus Army
Document 23-3, Hard Times and Hoovervilles (1930, 32, 41) and two questions, one from the book and one of your own
Monday, February 15: The New Deal (c. 23) p. 700-707
RESEARCH PAPER OUTLINES DUE
30. How did FDR address the banking crisis? The agricultural crisis?
31. How did FDR address the business and manufacturing slump? Soaring unemployment?
32. Who were Townsend, Coughlin, and Long? What were their views and how were they challenges to FDR?
Vocab: fireside chats, FDIC and the Glass-Steagall Act, alphabet soup, CCC, AAA, NRA, FERA, CWA, SEC Schecter v US,
Harold Ickes, Harry Hopkins
Tuesday, February 16: Labor, Economics, and Women in the New Deal (c. 23) p. 707-713
33. What did Social Security do and what did it not do?
34. How did FDR try to solve his problem of the Supreme Court finding many New Deal laws unconstitutional?
35. Discuss the CIO and how the labor movement fared during the New Deal.
36. What impact did Eleanor Roosevelt have? On the New Deal, on women’s issues, on the office of First Lady?
Vocab: Wagner Act, WPA, deficit spending, Keynesian Economics, General Motors Strike, Frances Perkins
Wednesday, February 17: Impacts and Legacy of the New Deal (c. 23) p. 713-722
37. Discuss New Deal impacts on African-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans.
38. What was the Dust Bowl, what caused it, and what migratory effects did it have?
39. What did the TVA accomplish?
40. What was the lasting legacy of the New Deal? What long term changes did it cause in the United States?
Vocab: Scottsboro Nine, Indian Reorganization Act, Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams, Dorothea Lange, Federal Writers’
Project, Federal Theatre Project, John Steinbeck/Grapes of Wrath
Thursday, February 18: Unit Two Review
Friday, February 19: UNIT TWO TEST
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What changes in the United States’ place in the world occurred as a result of World War One?
Explain ways in which economic and cultural contrasts are evident in the 1920’s.
How did government fundamentally change as a result of the New Deal?
What role does the Great Depression play in the psychology of our nation, both then and now?
What were the many causes of the Great Depression?
Do you see any Progressive ideas at work in the New Deal?
How do the 20’s and 30’s contrast? Do you see any similarities?