Period 7 Overview for APUSH

Preparing for Studying

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Key Historical Events and Ideas

Frontier Thesis and American Imperialism

• Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: American identity based on Western conquest; post-1890, looked outward for new frontiers
• Hawaiian Coup: Overthrow of Hawaiian monarch, annexation by the U.S. for sugar trade and strategic location

Important Imperialists

• Alfred Mahan: Advocated for a strong U.S. Navy
• Josiah Strong: Believed in spreading American culture and religion

Spanish-American War

• U.S. supported Cuba's independence from Spain
• Yellow journalism and events like the sinking of the USS Maine escalated tensions
• U.S. victory and Treaty of Paris: acquired Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

Foreign Policies

• Open Door Policy (John Hay): Access to Chinese markets
• Roosevelt Corollary: Right to intervene in Latin America
• Dollar Diplomacy (Taft): Economic control through investments
• Moral Diplomacy (Wilson): Supporting democratic governments

Progressive Era

• Muckrakers: Exposed corruption (e.g., Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair)
• Presidential Reforms:
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Square Deal—consumer protection, controlling corporations, conservation
  • Woodrow Wilson: Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Reserve, 16th and 17th Amendments
• Women's Role: Temperance (18th Amendment) and suffrage (19th Amendment)

World War I

• U.S. neutrality and eventual involvement in 1917
• Key events: unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegram
• Home Front: Espionage and Sedition Acts, women's workforce roles
• Wilson’s 14 Points: Only League of Nations accepted

African American Civil Rights Movement

• NAACP: Founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall
• Great Migration: African Americans moved North
• Harlem Renaissance: Cultural flourishing
• Double V Campaign: Victory abroad and at home for equality

Roaring 20s

• Economic boom and consumer culture
• Red Scare and increased nativism leading to quota acts
• Prohibition: Led to rise of organized crime
• Scopes Monkey Trial: Debate over evolution teaching

Great Depression

• Causes: stock market crash, Dust Bowl, overproduction
• Herbert Hoover: Initially laissez-faire, later created Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• FDR and New Deal:
  • Relief, reform, recovery
  • Fireside Chats, First and Second New Deal
  • Criticism: socialistic tendencies, court-packing plan

World War II

• Neutrality Acts and gradual involvement
• Pearl Harbor: U.S. entry into war
• Japanese Internment: Executive Order 9066
• Military Contributions: Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code Talkers
• Home Front: Women in workforce, Rosie the Riveter
• End of WWII: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Exam Preparation

• Common questions on causation, comparison, and continuity and change
• Focus on imperialism, the Great Depression, New Deal, home front differences in WWI and WWII
• Progressive amendments and economic reforms

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