Key Concepts: Students should be able to answer the following questions.
a. How did the liberties of blacks after 1877 give way to legal segregation across the South?
b. In what ways did the boundaries of American freedom grow narrower in this period?
c. How did the United States emerge as an imperial power in the 1890s?
d. Why was the city such a central element in Progressive America?
e. How did the labor and women's movements challenge the nineteenth century meanings of American freedom?
f. In what ways did Progressivism include both democratic and anti-democratic impulses?
g. How did the Progressive presidents foster the rise of the nation-state?
h. In what ways did the Progressive presidents promote the expansion of American power overseas?
i. How did the United States get involved in World War I?
j. How did the United States mobilize resources and public opinion for the war effort?
k. How did the war affect race relations in the United States?
l. Why was 1919 such a watershed year for the United States of America?
II. Text Reading:
a. Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, At Home and Abroad, 1890-1900 (pp. 688-718)
b. Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 (pp. 728, 746-762)
c. Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy:The United States and World War I, 1916-1920
a. How did the liberties of blacks after 1877 give way to legal segregation across the South?
b. In what ways did the boundaries of American freedom grow narrower in this period?
c. How did the United States emerge as an imperial power in the 1890s?
d. Why was the city such a central element in Progressive America?
e. How did the labor and women's movements challenge the nineteenth century meanings of American freedom?
f. In what ways did Progressivism include both democratic and anti-democratic impulses?
g. How did the Progressive presidents foster the rise of the nation-state?
h. In what ways did the Progressive presidents promote the expansion of American power overseas?
i. How did the United States get involved in World War I?
j. How did the United States mobilize resources and public opinion for the war effort?
k. How did the war affect race relations in the United States?
l. Why was 1919 such a watershed year for the United States of America?
II. Text Reading:
a. Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, At Home and Abroad, 1890-1900 (pp. 688-718)
b. Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 (pp. 728, 746-762)
c. Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy:The United States and World War I, 1916-1920
Unit Lesson Materials
| unit_7_notes.pdf |
Progressivism
| excerpts_from_sinclairs_jungle.pdf |
| 1_-_the_progressive_movement.pdf |
| 2_-_the_progressive_presidents.ppt |
| 3_-_taft_to_wilson.ppt |
| 4_-washington_v__dubois.ppt |
Imperialism
| 5_spanish-american_war_ppt.pptx |
| 6_imperialism_in_latin_am._and_asia.pdf |
| panama_canal.ppt |
| 7_-_review_of_u.s._foreign_policy.ppt |
First World War
| 8_the_great_war.ppt |
| 9_-_the_u.s._joins_the_fight.pptx |
| 10_-_wilson__treaty_of_versailles.pptx |
| world_war_one.ppt |
Review Materials
| unit_7_study_guide.pdf |
| 7_unit_7_progressivism_imperialism_wwi_and_20s.ppt |
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| crash_course_episodes_27_through_31.pdf |
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