Period 7: 1890-1945
Period 7 is worth 21% of the AP Exam. This period will be covered in approximately 10 class periods.
The College Board uses key concepts to denote the testable material for each period. The full, detailed version of these concepts are located here. Please take the time to know these concepts, as anything mentioned is fair game for the AP Exam.
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.
Period 7 Key Terms
Key terms that will be an invaluable study tool as we get closer to the AP exam in May. Each term should include the information provided on Quizlet.
Chapter 18
Progressives
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Scientific management
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Lochner v. New York
Pure Food and Drug Act
Muckrackers
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chapter 19
Imperialism
Yellow journalism
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Paris
Platt Amendment
White Man’s Burden
Sphere of influence
Open Door Policy
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
New immigrants
Big Stick Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
Chapter 20
Schlieffen Plan
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
Fourteen Points
Committee on Public Information
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
Spanish influenza
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Women’s suffrage
Chapter 21
Prohibition/18thamendment
21stamendment
Immigration Act of 1924
First Red Scare
Scopes Trial
Harlem Renaissance
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Washington Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Chapter 22
Great Depression
Bonus March
New Deal
Emergency Banking Act
FDIC
Social Security Act
Security Exchange Commission
Dust Bowl
American Federation of Labor
New Deal coalition
Court packing
Chapter 23
Non-interventionists
Interventionists
Neutrality acts
“Cash and carry”
Munich Conference
Axis Powers
Allies
Lend-Lease
Pearl Harbor
Korematsu v. U.S.
Manhattan Project
A. Phillip Randolph (Double V Campaign)