PERIOD SEVEN 1890 - 1945
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Click the file above to walk through a compare and contrast prompt between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
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Spanish American War - Consider the directions below with the two political cartoons and accompanying information on the associated viewpoints.
Pro-Imperialism Argument |
Anti-Imperialism Argument |
Political / Strategic Motivations:
a) America required a developed and well supported military— including Army and Navy b) Based on Alfred T. Mahan’s Power of the Seas, a fully modern navy ensured domestic tranquility, global economic control, and world peace c) Intervention in the Caribbean and Latin America would reinforce the Monroe Doctrine, supporting US’s control of the Western Hemisphere d) Intervention in the Pacific would support Open Door Policy with China and check Japan’s rising power e) Control/support of the Pacific islands would provide naval stations throughout the Pacific Ocean (1) Refueling stations (2) Protection (3) Open locations for raw materials f) International arms race, militarization, and mobilization—Germans, French, AustriaHungarians, Russians, Japanese, and British were all expanding empires |
Teddy Roosevelt was really the first American president to consider America's natural resources to be limited and in need of conservation. Above is an excerpt about John Muir. and Roosevelt. A few years ago, John Muir was a writing prompt and many students were clueless how to respond. Make sure you pay attention!!
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Struggling with how to appropriately answer different types of writing prompts? Take a look at the document to the left! It breaks it down for you using a variety of prompts on the 1920s!!!
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1920s Republicans compared to 1930s New Deal Democrats
SAQ Practice Prompt below: Read the quotes, HIPPO, and answer the prompts below.
The following have appeared on past AP Exams from the period:
CUL - Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts over TWO of the following issues during the 1920’s: Immigration, Prohibition, and Religion.
CUL - Analyze the extent to which the 1920’s and 1950’s were similar in TWO of the following areas: Impact of Technology, Intolerant Attitudes, and Literary Developments.
CUL - Compare and Contrast society in the United States between the 1920’s and the 1950’s concerning TWO of the following: Race Relations, Role of Women, and Consumerism
WXT - Evaluate the argument that Progressive Reform lost momentum in the 1920’s with respect to TWO of the following: Regulation of Businesses, Labor, and Immigrants.
WOR - Analyze how and why foreign policy in the United States changed from 1920 to 1941.
WOR - Compare and Contrast the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
MIG - Analyze both the tensions surrounding and the United States government’s responses to the issue of immigration from 1880 to 1925.
MIG - Analyze the primary causes of the population shift from rural to urban environments in the United States between 1875 and 1925.
NAT - Analyze the home-front experience of TWO of the following groups during the Second World War (1940-1945): African Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans.
CUL - Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts over TWO of the following issues during the 1920’s: Immigration, Prohibition, and Religion.
CUL - Analyze the extent to which the 1920’s and 1950’s were similar in TWO of the following areas: Impact of Technology, Intolerant Attitudes, and Literary Developments.
CUL - Compare and Contrast society in the United States between the 1920’s and the 1950’s concerning TWO of the following: Race Relations, Role of Women, and Consumerism
WXT - Evaluate the argument that Progressive Reform lost momentum in the 1920’s with respect to TWO of the following: Regulation of Businesses, Labor, and Immigrants.
WOR - Analyze how and why foreign policy in the United States changed from 1920 to 1941.
WOR - Compare and Contrast the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
MIG - Analyze both the tensions surrounding and the United States government’s responses to the issue of immigration from 1880 to 1925.
MIG - Analyze the primary causes of the population shift from rural to urban environments in the United States between 1875 and 1925.
NAT - Analyze the home-front experience of TWO of the following groups during the Second World War (1940-1945): African Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans.