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
- American Yawp Reader: Life in Industrial America
- Gilder Lehrman Institute: Period 7
- Spanish-American War (Khan Academy)
- Spanish-American War (Office of the Historian, US Dept. of State)
- Shell Shock Cases (Imperial War Museum)
- The New Deal (History.com)
- FDR and Taking the US Dollar off the Gold Standard
- Alphabet Soup/New Deal Programs Reference (USHistory.org)
- The Bonus March (USHistory.org)
Of Interest
- "When Nazis Took Manhattan" (npr.org)
- History of La Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia)(FBI)
- Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (History.com)
Dark Side of the 1920s Presentation
FSA Color Photographs, 1930s-40s
How the Other Half Lives (Excerpt)
Significance of the Frontier in American History
The White Man's Burden
William James on "The Philippine Question"
Many Americans opposed imperialist actions. Here, the philosopher William James explains his opposition in the light of history.1
McKinley on the Philippines
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.