APUSH Unit 7 Key Topics: Progressive Era to WWII
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What time period does APUSH Unit 7 cover?
1890-1945
What was the Progressive Era?
A period of reform addressing problems caused by industrialization.
What did Progressives want to fix?
Corruption, inequality, and poor working conditions.
Who were muckrakers?
Journalists who exposed social problems.
What did Upton Sinclair write?
The Jungle.
What did The Jungle expose?
Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What law resulted from The Jungle?
The Pure Food and Drug Act.
What was the Meat Inspection Act?
A law regulating food safety.
What was women's suffrage?
The movement to give women the right to vote.
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
A leader in the women's suffrage movement.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Progressive president known for reform.
What was the Square Deal?
Roosevelt's plan for fairness for workers, consumers, and businesses.
What was trust-busting?
Breaking up monopolies.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Law regulating food and medicine safety.
What was the Federal Reserve Act?
Created the national banking system.
What was World War I?
A global war from 1914 to 1918.
Why did the U.S. enter WWI?
Unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
Germany asking Mexico to attack the U.S.
Who was President during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson.
What was propaganda?
Information used to influence public opinion.
What was the Selective Service Act?
A law requiring men to register for military service.
What was the Espionage Act?
Law punishing interference with the draft.
What was the Sedition Act?
Law punishing criticism of the government.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Treaty ending WWI.
What was Wilson's Fourteen Points?
Plan for peace after WWI.
What was the League of Nations?
An international peace organization.
Why didn't the U.S. join the League of Nations?
Senate rejected it.
What was the Roaring Twenties?
A period of economic growth and cultural change.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A cultural movement celebrating Black art and identity.
Who was Langston Hughes?
A major Harlem Renaissance poet.
What was the Great Migration?
Movement of African Americans to northern cities.
What was Prohibition?
A ban on alcohol (18th Amendment).
What were speakeasies?
Illegal bars during Prohibition.
What caused the Great Depression?
Stock market crash and economic weaknesses.
What was Black Tuesday?
The 1929 stock market crash.
What was the New Deal?
FDR's programs to fight the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
President during the Great Depression and WWII.
What were New Deal programs?
Government programs to provide relief and recovery.
What was Social Security?
A program for retirement and unemployment support.
What was the Dust Bowl?
Severe drought and dust storms in the Great Plains.
Why did the Dust Bowl happen?
Overfarming and drought.
What was WWII?
Global war from 1939-1945.
Why did the U.S. enter WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor.
What was Pearl Harbor?
Japanese attack on U.S. naval base in 1941.
Who was President during WWII?
Franklin D. Roosevelt (then Truman at end).
What was the Holocaust?
Genocide of Jews and others by Nazi Germany.
What was D-Day?
Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
What was the Manhattan Project?
Secret project to build the atomic bomb.
What ended WWII?
Atomic bombings of Japan and surrender in 1945.
What was the significance of WWII?
U.S. became a global superpower.