MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 7

Spanish-American War

• Period covered: Early 20th Century

• Key Concepts:

  • 7.1: Growth expanded opportunity, but economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.

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

  • 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.

People and Terms

• The Jungle: A novel by Upton Sinclair that exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.

• Our Country:

• Helen

• Taylorism: A theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows.

• Assembly Line: A manufacturing process where parts are added sequentially to create a finished product.

• Taylorism and the Assembly Line increased production efficiency.

• Bull Market: A market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying.

• Stock Market Crash

• Reconstruction Finance Corporation: A government corporation in the United States that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.

• New Deal: A series of programs and projects undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

• Manhattan Project: A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

• Conservationists: People who advocate for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife.

• Romain

• Hollywood: The American film industry.

• Indian Reorganization Act: U.S. federal legislation that secured certain rights to Native Americans, including Natives' rights to self-governance and powers to exclude non-Indians from Indian lands.

• Zimmerman Telegram: A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.

• Palmer Raids: Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.

• Okies: Migrant farmers from Oklahoma who moved to the West Coast during the Dust Bowl.

• Flappers: Young women in the 1920s who embraced a lifestyle viewed as new and radical at the time.

• Progressive Amendments

• Muller Org

• Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.

• Federal Trade Commission (FTC): A federal agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy.

• Selective Service Act: Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription.

• Espionage Act: A United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, that prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.

• Isolated War

• Purchase of Alaska: The United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867.

• Spanish-American War: A conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.

• Big Stick Diplomacy: Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."

• Roosevelt Corollary: An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.

• Great White Fleet: A popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships which completed a circumnavigation of the world from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

• Dollar Diplomacy: A form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.

• Good Neighbor Policy: The foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Latin America.

• Yellow Journalism: Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

• The Lost Generation: The generation that came of age during World War I.

• Harlem Renaissance: An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.

• Red Scare: A period of intense anti-communism in the United States.

• Great Depression: The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.

• Dust Bowl: An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to migrate.

• New Deal: A series of programs and projects undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

• WWII

• Social Darwinism: The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

• Muckrakers: Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.

• Socialist Party: A political party that advocates for socialism.

• NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization.

• New Deal Coalition: The alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the United States that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until approximately 1968.

• Rosie the Riveter: A cultural icon of World War II, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during the war.

• Japanese Internment: The forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

• Double V Campaign: A slogan and drive to promote the fight for democracy abroad and within the United States for African Americans during World War II.

• Fourteen Points: A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

• National Origins Act: A United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people of that nationality who were living in the United States in 1890.

Documents

• Advertisements in the 1920s for consumer culture

• Emergency Quota Act

• National Origins Act

• Pearl Harbor attack

• The Jungle: Uptown Sinclair's novel

• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Emergency Banking Act

• The History of Standard Oil

• How The Other Half Lives: Jacob Riis's photojournalism

• Lewis Hine's photographs: Focused on child labor

• Wagner Act

• The New Negro

• Espionage Act of 1917

• The Scopes Trial

• The Grapes of Wrath: Novel about the Dust Bowl

• The Influence of Sea Power on History

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Open Door notes

• What feature films

• Neutrality Acts

• Conferences: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam

• Atlantic Charter: Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.

• Four Freedoms Speech

• Rosie the Riveter WWII propaganda

• For United States

American Identity

• America & National Identity (NAT)

• Work, Exchange, & Technology (WXT)

• Geography & the Environment (GEO)

• Migration & Settlement (MIG)

• Politics and Power (PCE)

• America in the World (WOR)

• American & Regional Culture (ARC)

Details to Know

• Debates between Imperialists vs. Anti-Imperialists.

• Causes & Effects of Spanish American War

• Goals and Effects of the Progressive movements.

• Division within Progressives.

• Preservationists & Conservationists.

• Causes and Effects of WWI

• Causes and Effects of Immigration through 1920

• Growth of Nativism and Red Scare following WWI

• Great Migration (causes & effects)

• Innovations of the 1920s.

• Development of pop & consumer culture-Harlem Renaissance, debates over cultural changes

• Causes and Effects of the Great Depression

• Policies and Impact of the New Deal

• Foreign policy following WWI through start of WWII (isolation to intervention)

• Impact of WWII on U.S. society

• Causes and effects of Allied victory in WWII

• Role of U.S. in the world following WWII

The New Diplomacy

Continuities

• Nativism-Red Scare.

• Violence against black community-Red Summer.

• Debates over role of government.

• Expansionism.

• Govt support for business-laissez faire economics in the 1920s.

• Women involved in reform.

• Restrictions on liberties in context of war.

• Women's involvement in war-defense industry.

Changes

• Women's suffrage.

• Financial regulatory system & welfare state role for government.

• Increased government oversight.

• Active role in foreign affairs (Fourteen Points to WWII conferences).