APUSH Unit 8 Guide
Unit 8 covers the years 1912-1932, which is all part of Period 7: 1890-1945.
 An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global
challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define
its international role.
Key concepts:
 Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of
large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such
as urbanization and mass migration.
 A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a
new mass culture and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts
between groups increased under the pressure of migration, world wars, and
economic distress.
 Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies renewed debates over
the nation’s values and its role in the world while simultaneously propelling the
United States into a dominant international military, political, cultural, and economic
position.
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home & Abroad, 1912-1916
o T. Woodrow Wilson
o Bull Moose & Election of 1912 (TR is the man!)
o WW: “Triple wall of privilege”
o Underwood Tariff
o 16th Amendment
o Federal Reserve Act
o Clayton Anti-Trust Act
WW & Progressivism
o WW & Foreign issues
o Moralistic Diplomacy: Mexico, Huerta, Carranza, Villa, Pershing
o World War I: assassination, Central Powers vs. Allies, neutrality, Wilhelm II, u-boats
o Lusitania, Sussex Pledge
o Election of 1916: Woodrow Round 2
Chapter 30: The War to End War, 1917-1918
o Zimmerman note = America goes to war
o 14 Points
o Committee on Public Information, George Creel
o Espionage & Sedition Acts: Debs
o World War = boards, councils, unions, strikes, riots, Prohibition, Hoover, War bonds,
ways to save $, 19th Amendment
o Conscription of doughboys
o Fighting in France (but not the Bolsheviks): Marne, Pershing, York, Western Front,
armistice
o Big Four in Paris: Treaty of Versailles
o League of Nations: WW vs. Lodge
o Election of 1920: Warren G.Harding, Coolidge, Cox, FDR, & Debs (again?)
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”, 1919-1929
o Red Scare
o Guglielmo Marconi
o A. Mitchell Palmer
o D.W. Griffith
o Sacco & Vanzetti
o Al Jolson
o Immigration quotas
o Margaret Sanger
o Prohibition
o Flapper
o Volstead Act
o Jazz
o Speakeasies
o Langston Hughes
o Al Capone
o Marcus Garvey
o Scopes “Monkey Trial”
o Authors? C’mon, not more authors:
o Babe Ruth (I hate the Yankees!)
Wharton, Cather, Mencken,
o Jack Dempsey
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lewis,
o Frederick W. Taylor
Faulkner, O’Neil
o Henry Ford
o Frank Lloyd Wright
o Automobile industries & culture
o Buying “on margin”
o Wright Brothers
o Andrew Mellon
o Charles Lindbergh
Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932
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W.G. Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
Albert B. Fall
Harry M. Daugherty
Laissez-faire
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
Herbert Hoover
Esch-Cummins Transportation Act
& other business acts
Veterans Bureau
American Legion
Adjusted Compensation Act
Washington Conference 1921-1922
Five Power Treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Scandal!!!: Forbes, Teapot Dome,
Elk Hills
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Death of Harding (elected
1920…idiot) = Coolidge
Farmer probs.
Election of 1924
Fo. Po. Probs.
Dawes Plan (APUSH review: I’ve
heard “Dawes” before; where?)
Election of 1928 = Herbert Hoover
Hoover’s actions: esp. HawleySmoot
The Crash: “Brother, Can You
Spare a Dime?”
The Depression: Hoovervilles, etc.
Hoover a pioneer for the New
Deal? How?
Bonus Army
Problems with Japan
“Good Neighbor” Policy