Unit 7: America on the World Stage, 1900-1920
Unit Overview:
This unit covers the years 1898-1919. Some major events/themes of this unit:
Jingoism and Yellow Journalism
The Spanish-American War
Election of 1900 and Teddy Roosevelt
Dollar Diplomacy and The Roosevelt Corollary
American Imperialism
Progressivism and Women's Suffrage
European Militarism at turn of century
WWI
Unit Essay: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad
In order to get credit for this project, you must write a well-developed essay on ONE of the following topics:
Struggling for Justice at Home and AbroadFRQ: Analyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880’s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following: Politics, Social Conditions, Labor and working conditions. (2010)FRQ: Analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers in addressing problems of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. In your answer, focus on reform efforts in TWO of the following areas: State and federal government, The workplace, Living Conditions in cities. (2010)
DBQ: For the years 1880 to 1925, analyze both the tensions surrounding the issue of immigration and the United States government’s response to these tensions. Use the following documents and your knowledge of the period from 1880 to 1925 to construct your answer. (2008)
FRQ: Following Reconstruction, many southern leaders promoted the idea of a “New South.” To what extent was this “New South” a reality by the time of the First World War? In your answer be sure to address TWO of the following: Economic development; Politics; Race Relations. (2008)
FRQ: Analyze the ways in which the federal government sought support on the home front for the war effort during the First World War. (2007)
FRQ: To what extent did the role of the federal government change under President Theodore Roosevelt in regard to TWO of the following: Labor; Trusts; Conservation; World Affairs. (2007)
FRQ: How successful were progressive reforms during the period 1890 to 1915 with respect to TWO of the following? Industrial conditions; urban life; politics (2005)
DBQ: Evaluate the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers and the federal government in bringing about reform at the national level. In your answer be sure to analyze the successes and limitations of these efforts in the period 1900-1920. (2003)
Attachments: 2003B Questions.pdf 2008B Questions.pdf
Unit Documentaries:
American Experience: Triangle Fire (51:53)
American Experience: The Panama Canal (1:22:11)
The Century Part 2: Shell Shock (44:24)
Short Videos:
The Spanish-American War (7:54)
The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (5:56)
American Presidents: Taft (3:09)
The Causes of WWI (11:20)
Unit Primary Sources:
William Jennings Bryan, "First Speech Against Imperialism," 1898
Eugene Debs, "The Future", 1898
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden", 1899
John Hay, First Open Door Note, 1900
Jacob Riis, The Battle With the Slum, 1902
W.E.B DuBois, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," 1903
Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama, 1904
Theodore Roosevelt, "The Man with the Muck Rake", 1906
Jane Addams, "The Problems of Poverty", 1910
President Wilson's Fourteen Points, 1918
Sparknotes Summaries:
AP US History Unit 7 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit 3 Key Terms:
1. Panic of 1893
2. Populism
3. Election of 1896
4. granges
5. yellow journalism
6. Spanish-American War
7. Roosevelt Corollary
8. Open Door Policy
9. Berlin Conference (1884)
10. Russo-Japanese War
11. The Jungle
12. Women's Suffrage Movement
13. Progressive Era
14. WCTU
15. militarism
16. Zimmerman Telegram
17. Fourteen Points
18. Western Front
19. Treaty of Versailles
20. League of Nations
Below is an example of a key term done with the proper format:
William the Conqueror: William I (c. 1028[2] – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen (from Paris andÎle-de-France) to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.[3] (I copied and pasted this definition from Wikipedia)
Significance: William the Conqueror is significant because his conquest of England created the first nation state in Europe. His rearrangement of English feudal territories to give himself dramatically more power than the the barons and nobles around him caused him to be the most powerful monarch in Europe and eventually led to the rise of other nation states over the next few centuries. (These are my words based on my knowledge of English and European history.)
