Mr. McLaughlin
AP US History II
Chapter 29 and 30 Study Guide
Test Preparation
You are advised to thoroughly review the chapter outlines you created, class notes, the simulation, reread The American Pageant Chapter 29/30 and read Chapter 22 (WWI) in AMSCO. You should also
review the DBQ rubric, DBQ writing guidelines, and essay model handout. In addition, it is in your
best interest to make flash cards for all the key names, events, and terms and study with a classmate.
Chapter 29 and 30 Major Themes
1) Domestic economic and social reform.
2) Idealistic Foreign Policy.
3) Social, Political, and Economic Impacts of War.
Chapter 29 Summary
Wilson and his New Freedom defeated Roosevelt and his New Nationalism in a contest over
alternative forms of progressivism. Eloquent, idealistic former professor Wilson successfully carried
out a broad progressive economic reform of the tariff, finances, and the trusts. He also achieved some
social reforms that benefited the working classes, but not ethnic minorities, such as African Americans.
Wilson’s attempt to implement progressive moral goals in foreign policy was less successful, as he
stumbled into military involvements in the Caribbean and revolutionary Mexico. The outbreak of
World War I in Europe also brought the threat of American involvement, especially from German
submarine warfare.
Wilson temporarily avoided war by extracting the precarious Sussex pledge from Germany. His
antiwar campaign of 1916 narrowly won him reelection over the still-quarreling Republicans and
Charles Evan Hughes
Chapter 30: The War to End War, 1917-1918
Chapter 30 Summary
Germany’s declaration of unlimited warfare, supplemented by the Zimmerman note proposing an
alliance with Mexico, finally caused the United States to declare war. Wilson aroused the country to
patriotic heights by making the war and idealistic crusade for democracy and permanent peace based
on his Fourteen Points.
Wartime propaganda stirred voluntary commitment to the war effort, but at the coast of suppressing
dissent. Voluntary efforts also worked wonders in organizing industry, producing food, and financing
the war. Labor, including women, made substantial wartime gains. The beginning of African American
migration to northern cities led to racial tensions and riots.
America’s soldiers took nearly a year to arrive in Europe, and they fought in only two major battles at
the end of the war. America’s main contribution to the Allied victory was to provide supplies,
personnel, and improved morale. Wilson’s immense prestige created high expectations for an idealistic
peace, but his own political blunders and the stubborn opposition of European statement forced him to
compromise his lofty aims.
As Lodge stalled the treaty, Wilson tried to rouse the country on behalf of his cherished League, but
his own physical collapse and refusal to compromise killed the treaty and the League. Republican
isolationists effectively turned Harding’s victory in 1920 into a death sentence for the League.
Unit 3 Learning Objectives
1. Explore the causes of the Great War and the U.S. role in it
2. Evaluate the impact of the war on the U.S. and global society
3. Analyze the impact of technology and industrialization on warfare
4. Evaluate “Wilsonian Progressivism”
Key Names, Events, and Terms
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“New Freedom”
16th Amendment
1912 Election
1913 Federal Reserve Act
Adamson Act
AF of L
Allied Powers
American Expeditionary Force
Arabic
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Battle of Chateau Thierry
Big Four
Bolsheviks
Bull Moose Party
Carranza
Central Powers
Clayton Anti-Trust (1914)
Council of National Defense
David Lloyd George
Edward House
Election of 1920
Emma Goldman
Espionage Act (1917)
Eugene Debs
Federal Farm and Loan Act (1916)
Federal Reserve Board
Fourteen Points
FTC Act (1914)
Gavrilo Princip – Black Hand
George Creel
Georges Clemenceau
Great Migration
Henry Cabot Lodge
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Herbert Hoover
Irreconcilables
Jane Addams
Jeanette Rankin
Jones Act
Kaiser Wilhelm
King Edward V
LaFollette Seaman’s Act (1915)
League of Nations
Lusitania
Madero
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Mobilization
National War Labor Board
National Women’s Party
National Women’s Suffrage Party
Palmer Raids
Panama Canal Tolls Act
Pancho Villa
Military Preparedness
Propaganda
Red Scare
Reservationists
Russian Revolution
Schneck v. United States
Second Battle of the Marne
Sedition Act (1918)
Selective Service Act
Self-determination
Sheppard Towner Maternity Act
Strikes; race riots
Submarine Warfare
Sussex pledge
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Taft Supreme Court
Treaty of Versailles
Tsar Nicholas II
Underwood Tariff Act (1912)
US Neutrality
Victoriano Huerta
Vittorio Orlando
War Agencies
Warehouse Act (1916)
William Jennings Bryan
Workers’ Compensation Act (1916)
Zimmerman Telegram
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