APUSH Ch 27-29 Review Sheet (Imperialism/WW1 and Progressive Era)

Chapter 27-29 Review Sheet – Imperialism/WWI & The Progressive Era

Know the following terms & ideas (Although the exam is not limited to these):

IMPERIALISM/WWI

Our Country: Its Present Crisis, Its Possible Future	The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Political & economic reasons & rationales for expansion	The ‘D’s of Imperialism’
Presidents (from Cleveland to Wilson) on Imperialism/foreign policy	The Monroe Doctrine & Latin America
The Congressional Conflict over the end of WWI	American Economics & WWI
The benefits of U.S. neutrality (pre-WWI)	Espionage & Sedition Acts – Similarity to the 1700s?
TR vs. Taft vs. Wilson on Imperialism	What led to America’s dissolution of ties w/ Germany (circa WWI)?

The Spanish-American War: Causes & Results, The ‘Rough Riders’ & ‘Buffalo Soldiers,’ The Treaty of Paris, De Lôme Letter, The U.S.S. Maine

Hawaii: The McKinley Tariff, Significance of the Hawaiian Issue, Sanford Dole

Cuba: The Cuban Revolt & Valeriano Weyler, The Teller & Platt Amendments

Philippines: Filipino-American War, The Tydings-McDuffie Act; Puerto Rico: The Foraker Act (1900)

The Panama Canal: The Panamanian ‘Revolution’, What’s generally in the Panama Canal Treaties (not by name)

Japanese Relations: The Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of Portsmouth, Gentlemen’s Agreement

The Mexican Conflict: Pancho Villa, John Pershing, The ABC Powers

WWI Administrations: (& who led them) The War Industries Board, The Food Administration, Victory Gardens & Liberty Bonds, The War Labor Board, The Committee on Public Information/Creel Committee

WWI Events: The Zimmerman Telegram, Wilson’ Neutrality Proclamation, The Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Sussex Pledge

Wilson & Post-WWI: Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Self-Determination, The ‘Big Four’, The League of Nations, The Treaty of Versailles (& Article X), The, Lodge Reservations & Irreconcilables, Wilson’s Stroke & Edith

Imperialism:

‘Seward’s Folly’	Pulitzer/Hearst & ‘Yellow Journalism’	McKinley’s Assassination
Venezuela/British Guiana Border Dispute	The Open Door Policy/The Boxer Rebellion	The Insular Cases
John Hay	TR’s ‘Big Stick’ Diplomacy	The ‘Roosevelt Corollary’
The ‘Great White Fleet’	The ‘Yellow Peril’	‘Dollar Diplomacy’
The Wright Brothers	The American Protective Association	The Algeciras Conference

The ‘Great War’:

Debs & WWI	Espionage Act & Sedition Act, Schenck v. U.S.	Selective Service Act of 1917
	John Pershing & the AEF	The Great Migration & Race Riots

PROGRESSIVISM

The Election of 1912 (People, ideas, parties)	What class made up the Progressives? What were their goals?
‘Good’ vs. ‘Bad’ Trusts, The ‘Rule of Reason’	Progressivism vs. Populism/The Grange
Progressivism of TR, Taft, Wilson, Who is the real ‘Trustbuster’?	The 16^th, 17^th, 18^th, 19^th Amendments
The split between TR & Taft	The Failures of Progressivism

Progressive-Era Authors: What did they write about, what was the result? Nellie Bly, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Thorstein Veblen, Jacob Riis, Mark Twain

Muckrakers: What did they write, what were they about, what was the result? Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, etc.

Women: Jane Addams, Francis Willard, Carrie Nation, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Mary Baker Eddy

Supreme Court Cases: Northern Securities Co. vs. U.S., Muller v. Oregon, Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, Lochner v. New York, Danbury Hatters’ Case, Adair v. U.S.

Finance: The Federal Reserve Act; Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909), Underwood-Simmons Tariff (1913), Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)

Progressivism:

The Social Gospel/The Gospel of Wealth	The Comstock Laws	The ‘Acres of Diamonds’ speeches
The ‘Dime Story’	The ‘Wisconsin Experiment’	Reform, Recall, Referendum
Louis Brandeis	The Square Deal	The Anthracite Coal Strike
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	The breakup of Standard Oil & U.S. Steel	The Keating-Owen Act (1916)
Volstead Act	Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914	Meat Inspection, Pure Food & Drug Acts
The IWW, The Socialist Party & Eugene V. Debs	Birth of a Nation	The ‘Triple Wall of Privilege’

Assessing Primary Source Documents

Critical Thinking Concepts/Essay Prompts:

Motivation for American Imperialism – Why did it begin now, why not before?
American overseas imperialism vs. previous geographical expansion under Manifest Destiny
Extent of TR’s attack on the separation of powers – was it justifiable?
Expansionism of the Early/Mid 1800’s vs. Imperialism of the late 1800’s/early 1900s
Wilson & his foreign policies, American entry into WWI
Debates & problems over the end of WWI, Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
The Progressive Movement as a result of other movements & eras: e.g. Women’s reform movements, Populism, Big Business
Women & the Progressive Movement; The Presidents & their roles as Progressives, Trustbusters

APUSH Ch 27-29 Review Sheet (Imperialism/WW1 and Progressive Era)

Our Country: Its Present Crisis, Its Possible Future

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Espionage Act & Sedition Act, Schenck v. U.S.

The Square Deal

Birth of a Nation

Assessing Primary Source Documents