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Period 7:  1890-1945

Chapter 27- Empire and Expansion (1890-1909)

           -Chapter 27 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  American Imperialism

           -William McKinley presidential chart

           -William McKinley/Spanish American War chart- answers

           -William McKinley War Message to Congress w/questions

           -Everything you need to know about the territories of the United States article

 

           Documents

           -Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League 1898

           -Liliuokalani, Hawaii's Story

           -Platt Amendment

 

Chapter 28- Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (1901-1912)

           -Chapter 28 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  The Progressive Era

           -AP US Women Review

           -Women's Timeline- answers

           -Theodore Roosevelt presidential chart

           -Theodore Roosevelt presidential chart- answers

           -William Taft presidential chart

           -William Taft presidential chart- answers

           -Causes for the Progressive Era

           -Ch. 27-28 Test Review

 

           Documents

           -American women should have the right to vote (1909)

           -American women should not have the right to vote (1909)

           -Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

 

Chapter 29- Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War (1913-1920)

           -Chapter 29 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  Progressive Presidents

           -The Progressive Presidents by Eric Foner (From ‘Give Me Liberty’)

           -Grading the Progressive Presidents

           -Crash Course:  America in World War I

           -Woodrow Wilson presidential chart

           -Great Migration #1

           -Great Migration #2

           -Great Migration #3

           -Great Migration #4

 

           Documents

           -The Covenant of the League of Nations

           -Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)

           -Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot

 

Chapter 30- American Life in the Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

           -Chapter 30 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  The Roaring 20's

 

           Documents

           -Ku Klux Klan (1924)

 

Chapter 31- The Politics of Boom and Bust (1920-1932)

           -Chapter 31 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  The Great Depression

           -Warren Harding presidential chart

           -Warren Harding presidential chart- answers

           -President Harding and His Scandals handout

           -Calvin Coolidge presidential chart

           -Calvin Coolidge presidential chart- answers

           -Herbert Hoover presidential chart

 

           Documents

           -The Great Depression: An Oral Account 1932

           -Herbert Hoover's Plan (1931)

           -Great Depression and the Coming of the New Deal

 

Chapter 32- The Great Depression and the New Deal (1933-1939)

           -Chapter 32 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  The New Deal

           -FDR presidential chart- Part I

           -FDR presidential chart- Part I- answers

           -Ch. 30-32 Test Review

 

           Documents

           -The New Deal: Success or Failure?

           -New Deal Documents and Questions

           -The Long Plan

 

Chapter 33- FDR and the Shadow of War (1933-1941)

           -Chapter 33 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  World War II- Part 1

           -FDR presidential chart- Part II

 

           Documents

           -Nye Committee (1934)

           -Letter from Einstein to FDR (1939)

 

Chapter 34- America in World War II (1941-1945)

           -Chapter 34 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course: World War II- Part 2

           -WWII Battle chart

           -WWII Battle chart- answers

 

           Documents

           -Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry (1942)

           -An Eyewitness to Hiroshima (1945) John A. Siemes

           -The Charter of the United Nations, 1945

           -Executive Order 9066: Relocation of Japanese Americans (1943)

           -Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, "The Atlantic Charter"

           -Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Call for Sacrifice"

           -Franklin Roosevelt, Annual Address to Congress, "The Four Freedoms" (1941)

           -The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb- Henry Stimson (1945)

           -General Douglas MacArthur, "Old Soldiers Never Die," 1951

           -American Investigators, from The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

           -A. Philip Randolph, "A Call to March on Washington"

 

 

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