USHS14: EXPLAIN AMERICA’S EVOLOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WORLD AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate over American expansionism.

1.  What is imperialism? Why did the US adopt a policy of imperialism?

2.  What were the causes of the Spanish-American War? What ended it? What territories did the US acquire as a result of the SpAm War? Why was the SpAm War called a “splendid little war”?

3.  What were 2 arguments for annexation of the Philippines? What were 2 arguments against annexation?

4.  How and when did the US acquire Hawaii? Alaska?

Explain US involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the Panama Canal.

5.  What was the Monroe Doctrine? What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

6.  How did the US acquire the Panama Canal? (What country began the canal? What does a rebellion have to do with it? What role did the US Navy play in the acquisition?)

USHS15: ANALYZE THE ORIGINS AND IMPACT OF US INVOLVMENT IN WORLD WAR I

Describe the movement from US neutrality to engagement in World War I, with reference to unrestricted submarine warfare.

7.  What were the main causes of WWI? What event sparked WWI? Who was the Triple Entente? Who was the Triple Alliance? Who were the Allied Powers at the beginning of WWI? Who were the Central Powers? Who was not involved in WWI at the beginning of the War?

8.  Why did the US not enter WWI as soon as war broke out? What is unrestricted submarine warfare? What role did it play in the entrance of the US into WWI? What is the “Zimmerman Telegram”? What role did it play in the entrance of the US into WWI? When did the US join WWI?

9.  Who were the Allied Powers in April 1917? Central powers in April 1917? Who was no longer involved in WWI? Why?

10.  What were some of the new weapons and technology of WWI? What was trench warfare? What impact did it have on WWI?

Explain the domestic impact of WWI, as reflected by the origins of the Great Migration, the Espionage Act, and socialist Eugene Debs.

11.  What is the Great Migration? How did WWI impact the Great Migration?

12.  What was the Espionage Act? What was the penalty? Who was Eugene Debs? Why was he imprisoned?

Explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the proposed League of Nations.

13.  What treaty ended WWI? When? What did Great Britain and France want to do with Germany in the treaty? How come the US did not ratify the treaty?

14.  What was President Wilson’s plan for peace after the war called? What was the goal? What was the 14th point? Why did it fail?

Describe passage of the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition, and the 19th Amendment establishing women’s suffrage.

15.  What were the 18th and 19th amendments and how were they related to WWI?

USHS16: IDENTIFY KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF WWI

Explain how rising communism and socialism in the US led to the Red Scare and immigrant restriction.

16.  What country was taken over by communist in 1917? What did that lead to in the US? What was the Red Scare?

Identify Henry Ford, mass production, and the automobile.

17.  What is mass production? How did Henry Ford change the automobile industry? What impact did Henry Ford have on developing the idea of a “weekend”?

Describe the impact of radio and the movies.

18.  What was created as a result of the radio and movies? How did the development of a national culture change society?

Describe modern forms of cultural expression: include Louis Armstrong and the origins of jazz, Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Irving Berlin and Tin Pan Alley.

19.  Who was Louis Armstrong? What form of music did he make popular? Where did jazz originate? What invention helped spread the popularity of different forms of music?

20.  Who was Langston Hughes? What did Hughes write about? What was the Harlem Renaissance?

21.  Who was Irving Berlin? What song did he write? What was Tin Pan Alley?