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How might developments in Period 6 provide context for understanding the beginning of Period 7?
The Gilded Age and conditions in cities led to the Progressive Era and Muckrackers
What were some of the central arguments in the debates surrounding imperialism at the turn of the 20th century?
America needs to expand keep up wtih the competition for natural resources nad to gain prestige and standing on the world's stage
Explain a key cause of the Spanish-American War
Yellow Journalism (The sinking of the USS Maine)
Describe a significant goal of the Progressives in the early 20th century.
To address poor working conditions, inadequate consumer protections and to reign in the Laissez-Faire polices
. What was a major diplomatic challenge the United States faced at the outset of World War I?
How to maintain economic relations with the belligernets without being drawn into the war themselves
Identify a way the home front in the United States was affected by World War I.
Crucial war materials were rationed, Women began to take men's role in factories and the Great Migration
Describe an innovation in communication or technology that emerged in the 1920s.
Radios, Cars, Mechanized farming equipment, access to electricity
What was a major cultural controversy that characterized the 1920s in America?
Fundamentalism V. Modernism
Explain a primary cause of the Great Depression in the United States
Buying on Margin and the Stock Market collapse as well as inaction by the Hoover administration
What were three Rs for the New Deal and give an example of each
Relief (CCC, WPA, CWA) Recovery (AAA, NRA, NRIA) Reform (FDIC, TVA, SEC)
Describe a key aspect of United States foreign policy during the interwar period.
Isolationism (From Europe) Interventionist in Latin America
What was a key diplomatic consideration for the United States in the immediate aftermath of World War II?
How to rebuild post war Europe
Describe a way that new technologies changed American culture during the first half of the 20th century.
American culture began to see an emerging Middle Class who would have disposable income to buy luxury items
What role did migration play in shaping American society during the period of 1890-1945
Migration saw an increase in Urbanization as more people began to move to industry hubs were jobs are located
. Explain how debates over civil liberties and individual rights were affected by events in the first half of the 20th century and name the two SC cases.
The Surpeme Court ruled that restricting personal freedoms were resonable during times of war (Schenck V U.S. and Korematsu V U.S.)
Describe a continuity in American identity during the first half of the 20th century
Rugged individualism and nativesim
