AP U.S. History · Summary

Unit 7 summary

  1. Expansion after 1890 mixed motives: markets, naval power and a claimed civilizing mission. It brought colonies in 1898 and a policing role in Latin America without annexing every place the nation controlled.
  2. Progressives used muckraking, new laws and amendments to curb trusts and corruption and to widen direct democracy, but most accepted segregation.
  3. World War I expanded federal power and limited dissent at home; the Senate rejected the League of Nations over fears about its war commitments.
  4. The 1920s set a new urban, consumer culture against efforts to restore an older America: immigration quotas, the revived Klan, Prohibition and the Scopes trial.
  5. The Depression grew from deep weaknesses, not only the crash. The New Deal answered with relief, recovery and lasting reform, but it did not end the Depression.
  6. World War II ended mass unemployment and opened jobs to women and Black workers, and it also brought the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
  7. When a source has a date, place it in time: what came just before it, and what it led to.