1. 1890-1945

2. Periodization 1890 – Census declared the U.S. frontier was no more – Sherman Anti- Trust Act passed – the beginnings of the Progressive Era 1945 – Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the end of WWII

3. Sub Time Periods Imperialism – 1880’s – 1920’s Progressive Movement – 1890 -1914 Wilson and WWI (1914-1919) The 20’s

4. Sub Time Periods Hoover and the Depression (1929-1933) FDR and the New Deal (1933-1937) Events leading to WWII (1937-1941) WWII (1941-1945)

5. Major Themes Why did the U.S. become an imperialist power and what was the nature of American imperialism? Different aspects of progressivism –National, State, Local –Various reforms : extending democracy, regulating big business, curbing the power of the political machines, protecting labor, settlement houses

6. Major Themes Teddy Roosevelt and the rise of the presidency Wilsonian Idealism The fight over the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles Impact of the Red Scare and the Red Summer

7. Major Themes Urban vs. Rural, Modern vs. Traditional conflict The 1920’s Economy – The Auto Age – The Age of the Consumer The Impact of the 18 th and 19 th Amendments –Prohibition –The New Woman

8. Major Themes The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Pop Culture of the 20’s Causes of the Depression Hoover vs. FDR – response to the Depression

9. Major Themes 1938-1941 -- Isolationism vs. Internationalism Military course of WWII WWII – The Homefront The atomic bombs

10. Alfred Thayer Mahan Queen Lilioukalni John Stephens “Seward’s Folly” Teller Amendment Platt Amendment Yellow Journalism William Randolph Hearst Spanish-American War (1898) “Remember the Maine” (1898) Boxer Rebellion Open Door Policy Emilio Aguinaldo Anti-Imperialist League Albert Beveridge

11. The White Man’s Burden Rough Riders Roosevelt Corollary “Big Stick” policy Panama Canal “Dollar Diplomacy” Anthracite Coal Strike (1902) Pancho Villa John J. Pershing “Colossus of the North” Ida B. Wells Ida Tarbell Muckrakers Margaret Sanger Treaty of Paris (1899)

12. Square Deal Meat Inspection Act (1906) Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs 16 th -19 th Amendments Hepburn Act (1906) Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) Bob Lafollette The Wisconsin Idea Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

13. Lusitania Espionage Act (1917) Red Scare Palmer Raids Great Migration Red Summer Election of 1912 Zimmerman Note Federal Reserve Act (1913) The League of Nations Article X Reservationists Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. IWW

14. Key Terms Margaret Sanger Claude McKay Langston Hughes Marcus Garvey Charles Lindbergh Babe Ruth Rudolph Valentino Clara Bow The Reed-Johnson Act The National Origins Act The Tulsa Riots (1921) Sacco and Vanzetti Aimee Semple McPherson Billy Sunday

15. Key Terms The Bonus Army (1932) The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan John T. Scopes Hoovervilles The October Crash (1929) CCC TVA WPA NRA FDIC HOLC

16. Key Terms The 100 Days Huey Long The Wagner Act The Social Security Act The Roosevelt Recession Court Packing The Atlantic Charter The Greer Incident Destroyers for Bases Lend Lease The War Warning Dispatch “Poil Hobba” Operation Torch Island Hopping Internment Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)

17. Key Terms The Big Three Teheran Yalta Potsdam The Potsdam Declaration

18. Key Concepts Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.

19. Key Concepts Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.

20. Key Concepts Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.