Empire, Progressivism, and total war.
Imperial expansion, Progressive reform, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the war that finally pulled America to global power.
The 1898 Spanish-American War made the U.S. an overseas power (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines). At home, Progressives — Jane Addams, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette — pushed antitrust, regulation, women’s suffrage (19th Amendment, 1920), prohibition (18th, 1919), and the income tax (16th, 1913). World War I ended European hegemony and triggered the Great Migration of African Americans north. The 1920s: cars, radio, jazz, the KKK’s revival, the Scopes Trial, immigration restriction (1924), and a stock market that crashed in 1929. FDR’s New Deal redefined the federal government’s role in the economy. World War II finished the Depression, mobilized the entire society, ended in nuclear weapons, and left the U.S. as one of two superpowers in a wrecked world.
The CED, topic by topic.
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7.1
Contextualizing Period 7
From the closing of the frontier to the dawn of empire.
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7.2
Imperialism: Debates
Mahan, McKinley, Roosevelt, and the Anti-Imperialist League.
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7.3
The Spanish-American War
Cuba, the Maine, the Philippine-American War (1899–1902).
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7.4
The Progressives
Trustbusting, muckrakers, the 16th–19th Amendments.
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7.5
World War I: Military & Diplomacy
Neutrality, Lusitania, Zimmermann, Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
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7.6
World War I: Home Front
Selective Service, Espionage Act, Red Scare, the Great Migration.
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7.7
1920s: Innovations in Communication & Technology
Cars, radio, mass advertising.
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7.8
1920s: Cultural & Political Controversies
Scopes, KKK revival, immigration restriction (1924), Harlem Renaissance.
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7.9
The Great Depression
1929 crash, Hoover’s response, Bonus Army.
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7.10
The New Deal
Glass-Steagall, Social Security, Wagner Act, AAA, TVA.
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7.11
Interwar Foreign Policy
Isolationism, neutrality acts, FDR’s incremental moves toward intervention.
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7.12
WWII: Mobilization
Pearl Harbor, conversion to wartime production, Japanese internment, Tuskegee Airmen.
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7.13
WWII: Military
North Africa, Italy, D-Day, island-hopping, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta.
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Connect to the bigger picture
Era: The Modern World
APWH cross-links: 7.1 Shifting Power After 1900; 7.4 Economy in the Interwar Period; 7.6 WWII
Next: Period 8 — Cold War, Civil Rights, Great Society
