AP US History Period

US History Period 7 1898 - 1945
Table of Contant
American Imperialism
 American Foreign Policy
 Spanish American War (1898)
 The Causes & Origins
 The War Itself
 The Treaty of Paris
 Imperialists & Anti-Imperialists
 The Philippine – American War (1899 – 1902)
 China
 Boxer Rebellion (1899 – 1901)
 Theodore Roosevelt (1901 – 1909) – Big Stick Policy
 His American and Asian Policy
 Wiliam Howard Taft (1909- 1913) – Dollar Diplomacy
 Woodrow Wilison (1913 – 1921) – Moral Diplomacy
Progressive Era Reforms
 Development of Progressives Problems and Solutions
 Progressive Political Reform
o Direct Democracy
o The Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
o Local/Municipalities
o States
 Fourth Party System (1896 – 1932)
 Election of 1896
 William Mckinley (R) (1897 – 1901)
 Election of 1900
 Theodore Roosevelt (R) (1901 – 1909)
 Election of 1904
 Roosevelt: Trustbuster
 Progressive Labor Reforms
o Labor Strike
o Muckrakers
o Labor Unions
o Working Hours
o Working Conditions
o Child Labor
o African Americans in America
 Roosevelt: Conservationist
 William Howard Taft (R) (1909 – 1913)
 Election of 1912
 Woodrow Wilson (D) (1913 – 1921)
 Progressive Business Regulation

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,  Federal Reserve System and Central Banking
 Progressive Social Reform
o Booker T. Washington
o W.E.B. Du Bois
o African American
o Women’s Suffrage
 Nineteenth Amendment
o Immigration
America in World War 1
 Great War in Europe (1914 – 1919)
 The Path to War
 American Domestic War Effort
 American Domestic Insecurity
 American Over There
 Wilson and Peace
 Postwar America
o Labor Unions and Strikes
o Race Riots
o First Red Scare
The Roaring Twenties
 Presidents During the Twenties
o Warren G. Harding (R) (1921 – 1923)
o Calvin Coolidge (R) (1923 – 1928)
o Herbert Hoover (R) (1929 – 1933)
 American Consumer Society
 1920s Society
o Immigrates
o Women
o African Americans
 1920s Culture War
o Prohibition
o Religion
o The Jazz Age
o The Harlem Renaissance
o Hero Worship Literature
The Great Depression and the New Deal
 Causes of the Great Depression
o Political Polices
o Financial Practices
o Economic Situations
o Socioeconomic Conditions
 The Stock Market and the Crash of 1929
 Public Reaction to the Depression
 Election of 1932
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) (1933 – 1945)
 FDR’s Messages of Hope

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,  The First New Deal (1933 – 1934) - FDR’s First Hundred “Alphabet Soup”
 21st Amendment (1933)
 The Second New Deal (1935 – 1938)
 New Deal Opposition
World War 2
 American Foreign Policy of the 1920s
 The Axis Power and Appeasement
 American Isolationists
 FDR and preparedness
 “Arsenal Of Democracy”
 Peal Harbor and the Entrance of the US
 The Economy and World War 2
 Women and World War 2
 African Americans and World War 2
 Japanese in World War
 Other Minorities in World War 2
 Election of 1944
 Atlantic Theater
 Pacific Theater
 Japanese Surrender
 World War 2 Cost and its Legacy




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, American Imperialism
American Foreign Policy
 Washington Farewell Adress
 Monroe’s Doctrine

New Era of Foreign Policy
 Expedition to Japan – Commodore Perry
 Purchase of Alaska – William Seward
 Annexation of Hawaii – Overthrown of Queen Liliuokalani
 Spanish – American War

The Spanish American War (1898)
The Origins and Causes
 Cuba – Jose Marti
 DeLome Letter
 Spanish Diplomat ridicules McKinley
 USS Maine (Feb. 15)
 266 Deaths
 “Rember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

Yellow Journalism
 Joseph Pulitzer
 William Randolph Hearst

The War itself
 War declared on Apr. 21
 The Teller Amendment
 US promise Cuban independence, not annexation.
 Caribbean Theater
 Rough Riders
 Pacific Theater
 Battle of Manila
 Emilio Aguinaldo
 “A Splendid Little War” - Secretary of State John Hay

Treaty of Paris
America Acquired:

 Puerto Rico
 Guam
 The Philippine
Cuba Occupation
 American military occupation Cuba (1898 – 1902)
 Platt Amendment (1901)
o Treaties required American Approval
o Guantanamo Bay

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