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1890-1945
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Essential Themes
1. Modern Culture and Conflicts: A new culture emerged in the 1920s
that challenged the past and caused a cultural divide across the country. .
Conflicts centered around immigrants and fears of communism (the first Red
Scare), prohibition of alcohol, the role of the modern woman (flapper), and
was most apparent with the new rise of the KKK even in the north. New
forms of entertainment transformed the culture; radio, jazz music, leisure
sports, cinema, and a consumer culture that valued owning things more than
the traditional Protestant value of hard work and personal restraint. These
cultural conflicts will eventually subside but will reemerge in a firestorm in
the 1960s.
How were the culture conflicts of the 1920s similar to culture conflicts in America
today?
2. Expansion of the Federal Government: The Progressive Era ushered in
a more active government to balance the power of industrialists, solve social ills,
and provide worker and consumer protections through regulations. To fight in
both world wars, the government was forced to grow in scope and scale to manage
a total war. While the 1920s attempted to withdraw back to traditional laissez-
faire role, FDR’s New Deal forever altered the relationship between the
government and the citizenry. The role of the modern government that we are
familiar with today, essentially came out of this period.
How did President Hoover and FDR differ on the proper role of government in responding
to the Great Depression?
3. A New Foreign Policy: With the closing of the frontier, America looked
outward and with the Spanish American War in 1898, America became an
imperial power. Similar arguments and motivations were made for empire as
for Manifest Destiny, but it did not come without debate. America’s entered
the Great War to ‘make the world safe for democracy’ but the carnage of the
war, worries over entangling alliances and loss of sovereignty led to a
rejection of the League of Nations. Stern isolationism throughout the twenties
and thirties was only to be shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Again,
trust into a world war, America rose to its finest hour in defeating fascism
abroad and in the aftermath, be left as the sole power to resist the Soviets.
How did America’s isolation in the 1930’s play into the hands of Germany and Japan?
The Utmost Essential Terms
Definition or Description Significance or Image
Muckrakers
16, 17, 18, Amendment
(Progressive
Amendments)
16th 17th 18th
USS Maine
Anti-Imperialism
League
White Man’s Burden
Roosevelt Corollary (to
Monroe
Doctrine)
Square Deal
Wilson’s New
Freedom
Lusitania
14 Points
Sedition Act
(& Scheck v US)
1st and 2nd
Great Migration
Treaty of Versailles
(& League of Nations)
Immigration Act of 1924
Scopes Trial
Fordism
Flappers
Stock Market Crash
New Deal
(a few) NEW DEAL ACTS
FDIC-
AAA-
NRA-
SSA-
Wagner Act
Neutrality Acts of
1935,36,37
Atlantic Charter
Double Victory
Executive Order of
9066 (Korematsu v
US)
D-Day
Manhattan Project
Historical Thinking Skills: Comparison
Unique Similar Unique
WWI Impact on
Homefront
WWII Impact on
Homefront
THESIS PRACTICE: Compare and contrast the how World War I and World War
II impacted the American homefront.
Historical Thinking Skills: Causation
CAUSES EFFECTS (most significant to least) (most significant to least)
Explain the changes and continuities in the role of the
American government between 1890-1932
CONTINUITIES CHANGES
Progressive Reforms
Short (and Sweet) Answer Question! Tips and Tricks: Remember to “ACE it” for the SAQ. Answer, Cite, and Explain!
Answer: reuse key words from the prompt to answer it by Citing specific evidence and
then Explaining how the evidence supports your Answer.
Source 1: Thomas Kessner, “New Deal” 2010
With a blaze of bold executive action in his first 100 days, he dashed the torpor and malaise
that enveloped Washington. Declaring that he intended to employ powers similar to those
granted by the Constitution to fight a war, Roosevelt led a compliant Congress to enact
legislation assigning him unprecedented responsibilities for economic planning and assistance
to the unemployed. And while a fuller perspective reveals how bounded these changes were,
the swift pace and broad scale of the reforms conveyed a resolute engagement with the
people’s troubles.
Source 2: Howard Zinn, “A People’s History of the United States.” 1980
When the New Deal was over, capitalism remained intact. The rich still controlled the nation's
wealth, as well as its laws, courts, police, newspapers, churches, colleges. Enough help had
been given to enough people to make Roosevelt a hero to millions, but the same system that
had brought depression and crisis-the system of waste, of inequality, of concern for profit over
human need- remained.
1. Explain an important difference between how sources 1 and 2 view the New Deal.
2.Explain one specific piece of evidence that would support Kessner’s view.
3.Explain one specific piece of evidence that would support Zinn’s view.
Document Analysis for the DBQ
Prompt: Analyze the economic and social changes America
experienced in the 1920s.
Doc 1 Source: Lorna Mason et al,
“America’s Past and Promise”, 1998
Doc 2 Source: “Step by Step” Green,
Sydney 1919
Cartoons, paintings, and even
photographs often have a point-
of-view that is easy to
recognize. This engraving,
however, has a purpose that is
very easy to recognize- use that
when you HIPP!
When reading graphs, look for
general trends and any aberrations.
For this graph, while this is about
automobiles sales in the 1920s, to
make best use of this document- do
not just talk about sales of cars, go
on to analyze the different changes
(soc and econ) that cars had on
America!
HIPPING a cartoon is easy b/c there will be a
recognizable POV with a clear purpose (to
influence people’s opinions) Try to use 2 HIPPs
to ensure that one makes the cut! “A cartoon
from the perspective of ____ was trying to
show how _____________...Next explain the
significance of the topic in the doc to the
prompt and your thesis statement!”
Source: John F Carter, “These Wild Young People”, Atlantic Monthly, 1920 Now my generation is disillusioned, and, I think, to a certain extent, brutalized, by the
cataclysm which their (previous generation) complacent folly engendered. We have seen
man at his lowest, woman at her highest, in the terrible moral chaos of Europe…We have
been forced to live in an atmosphere of “tomorrow we die,” and so naturally, we drank and
be merry…Our music is distinctly barbaric, we drink when we can, what we can, we gamble,
we are extravagant.
When using docs, consider what specific historical facts or terms you can
use that support the doc. The more historical knowledge you can show,
the stronger your essay will be. (For instance, this doc does not mention
‘flappers’ or __?__ but those both should be used in your analysis!)
DBQ Writing Practice 1 pt:Set the Context! What events immediately proceeded and led the topic and events of the DBQ?
1 pt Thesis Statement [Ensure to answer ALL parts of the question and provide categories that
will be argued in your body paragraphs!]
Body paragraphs [up to 5 points: HIPP, Use of Docs, advanced
argumentation, and outside information]
Topic sentence linked to thesis category:
Introduce doc(s) with HIPP, explain useful information inferred, explain how it proves thesis:
Topic Sentence linked to thesis category:
Introduce doc(s) with HIPP, explain useful info inferred, explain how it proves thesis
Outside info to prove thesis (outside evidence should not be connected to any doc)
If you can explain how/why
docs and/or ideas are
connected or contradictory,
you earn the argumentation
point
Historical Thinking Skill: Chronological Reasoning
Pivotal Events in Period 7
1898
1945
Provide what you feel are the 8 most pivotal
and tide turning events of this period.