APUSH Period 7 LEQ

Analyze how two of the following helped to shape the national identity in the 20th century:

-Spanish American War

-World War 1

-Great Depression/New Deal

-World War 2

Analyze how women's identity was influenced by both peacetime and wartime experiences in the period from 1900 to 1945.

Compare and contrast the beliefs and strategies of tow of the following to address the needs of the US economic system:

-Progressives

-Economic conservatives of the 1920s and 1930s

-New Deal

Compare and contrast the effects of TWO of the following on business and labor:

-World War 1

-Great Depression

-New Deal

-World War 2

Analyze the causes and effects of changes in immigration patterns and policies from 1900 to 1945

Analyze the causes and effects of changes in internal migration patterns from 1900 to 1945

Some historians have argued that the most important political development between 1900 and 1945 was the increased role of the federal government in the US economy. Support, modify, or refute this contention using specific evidence.

Some historians have argues that the greatest threat to civil liberties came during wartime. Support, modify, or refute this contention using specific evidence from the period of 1898-1945.

Compare and contrast the goals of US policy workers in the Spanish American War, World War 1, and World War 2

Compare and contrast the influence of two of the following wars on postwar foreign policy.

-Spanish-American War

-World War 1

-World War 2

Analyze the role of the arts and popular culture, including immigrant and African American artists, in American society from 1900 to 1945.

Analyze how science and technological innovations contributed to changes in American values and attitudes between 1900 and 1945.

Reformers in the progressive era came from different backgrounds and represented several distinct interests. What were some of those backgrounds and interests? How did their goals differ?

How did the economic crisis of the 1890s shape american politics?

Compare the reform legislation passed during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency with that of Wilson's term. How were these goals and achievements shaped by the broader agenda of the party that held power?

What factors explain the limits of progressive reform in the United States?

To what degree did reforms of the Wilson era fulfill goals that various agrarian-labor advocates and progressives had sought?

Why did the election of 1912 feature four candidates and how did their platforms differ?

How did various reformers define 'progressivism' and how did their views differ from Theodore Roosevelt's version of progressivism?

To what degree, and in what ways were Roosevelt's policies progressive?

What developments caused the percentage of Americans who voted to plunge after 1900 and what role did courts play in anti democratic developments?

How did politics change in the South between the 1880s and the 1910s?

How did different groups of Americans react to the economic depression of the 1890s and what happened as a result?

How did the political goals of Populists differ in this period from those of Democrats and Republicans?

What factors led to close party competition in the 1880s?

As the United States became a major power on the world stage, what ideas and interests did policymakers seek to promote in international affairs?

How did imperialism in the 1890s reflect both continuities and changes from earlier eras?

Why did the United States go to war against Spain in 1898, and what led to US victory?

What were the long-term results of the US victory over Spain, in Hawaii and in former Spanish possessions?

What factors constrained and guided US actions in Asia and Latin America?

What factors led the United States to enter World War 1, despite the desire of so many Americans, including the president, to stay out of the war?

How did US military entry into World War 1 affect the course of the war?

What were the different effects of African Americans', Mexican Americans', and women's civilian mobilization during World War 1?

In what ways did the Treaty of Versailles embody - or fail to embody- Wilson's Fourteen Points?

What factors prompted the United States to claim overseas territories in the 1890s and early 1900s?

What role did the United States play in World War 1? On balance, do you think US entry into the war was justified? Why or why not?

How did World War 1 shape America on the home front, economically and politically?

What conflicts in culture and politics arose in the 1920s, and how did economic developments in that decade help cause the Great Depression?

What factors contributed to anti black violence, labor defeats, and the Red Scare, and what connections might we draw among these events?

Before World War 1, women didn't have full voting rights, but they had considerable success as reformers. After the war they could vote, but their proposals met defeat. How might we account for this apparent contradiction?

What choices did Americans face in the elections of 1920 and 1924, and what directions did they choose?

What were the economic goals of US foreign policymakers in the 1920s?

How did debates over alcohol use, the teaching of evolution, immigration, anti-Semitism, and racism evolve in the 1920s?

How did the Great Migration lead to flourishing African American culture, politics, and intellectual life, and what form did these activities take?

What criticisms of mainstream culture did modernist American writers offer in the 1920s?

How did the radio, automobile, and Hollywood movies exemplify the opportunities and the risks of 1920s consumer culture?

What domestic and global factors helped cause the Great Depression?

What was the Republican vision of 'normalcy' and how did the Harding and Coolidge administrations seek to realize it?

Along what lines did americans find themselves divided in the 1920s? How were those conflicts expressed in politics? In culture and intellectual life?

What factors contributed to the economic boom in the 1920s and the crash that followed?

What new roles did the American government take on during the New Deal, and how did these roles shape the economy and society?

What economic principles guided President Hoover and Congress in their response to the Great Depression?

What did the depression look like when seen from the vantage of ordinary citizens?

What specific new roles did the American government take up as a result of the legislation passed during the first hundred days?

How did critics on the right and left represent different kinds of challenges to Roosevelt and the New Deal?

How did the Second New Deal differ from the first?

What aspects of the New Deal inspired ordinary Americans? What stymied their ambitions?

Why did the natural environment receive so much attention under New Deal programs, and with what result?

Some historians have seen the New Deal as a natural evolution of progressive reforms from earlier in the century. Others have argued that it represented a revolution in social values and government institutions. Do you view the New Deal as an extension of progressivism or a radical break with the past?

How did the lives of women, workers, and racial and ethnic minority groups change during the Great Depression? What role did the New Deal play in helping those groups of Americans?

How did World War 2 transform the United States domestically and change its relationship with the world?

What motivated Japanese, Italian, and German expansionism?

How did Roosevelt use the Four Freedoms speech and the Atlantic Charter to define the war for Americans?

How did the war affect the relationship between private corporations and the federal government?

How does the slogan 'A Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world' connect the war abroad with the civil rights struggle at home?

What effects did wartime migration have on the United States?

Why were Japanese americans treated differently than German and Italian Americans during the war?

How did the Allies disagree over military strategy?

What factors influenced Truman's decision to use atomic weapons against Japan?

World War 2 has popularly been called the 'good war'. Do you agree with this assessment? Why do you think it earned that nickname?