Period 7: 1890-1945

Key Concepts

Key Concept 7.1 — Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.

Key Concept 7.2 — Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.

Key Concept 7.3 — Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.

Must-Know Review Terms List

List of Factual Content for the APUSH Test (Revised 2017)

Progressive Era
Amendments (#16, 17, 18, 19, 21)
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage
Preservationists/Conservationists
Imperialists/Anti-Imperialists
Isolationism
Spanish American War
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
American Expeditionary Force
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Red Scare
Immigration quotas/restrictions
Great Depression
Franklin Roosevelt
New Deal
World War II
Pearl Harbor
Fascism/Totalitarianism, Holocaust, Nazi concentration camps, Japanese atrocities
Japanese American Internment
D-Day invasion
"Island-hopping"
Atomic bombs

Factual Content Quizlet for Unit 7

Study Resources

Of Interest

Dark Side of the 1920s Presentation

FSA Color Photographs, 1930s-40s

Primary Sources

Riis, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement.

Riis, Jacob A

1890

Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant, combined photography and journalism into a powerful indictment of poverty in America. His 1890, How the Other Half Lives shocked Americans with its raw depictions of urban slums. Here, he describes poverty in New York.

Turner, Frederick Jackson

1893

Perhaps the most influential essay by an American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner’s address to the American Historical Association on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” defined for many Americans the relationship between the frontier and American and contemplated what might follow “the closing of the frontier.”

Kipling, Rudyard

1899

As the United States waged war against Filipino insurgents, the British writer and poet Rudyard Kipling urged the Americans to take up “the white man’s burden.”

James, William

1903

Many Americans opposed imperialist actions. Here, the philosopher William James explains his opposition in the light of history.1

McKinley, William

January 23, 1903

When next I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them. I sought counsel from all sides-Democrats as well as Republicans-but got little help. I thought first we would take only Manila; then Luzon; then other islands, perhaps, also.