Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 10 Study Guide

Unit 10 — America Comes of Age, 1865-1920

Facts to Know

Chapter 22 — The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

1. The late nineteenth-century sources of American expansionism and imperialism.
2. The role of ideology and culture in American expansionism and imperialism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
3. The expansionist vision of William H. Seward, and the extent to which this vision was realized by the late 1880s.
4. Relations between the United States and the following nations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:
   a. Great Britain
   b. Canada
5. The modernization of the United States Navy in the late nineteenth century.
6. The causes and consequences of the Hawaiian and Venezuelan crises.
7. The causes (both underlying and immediate) and the conduct of the
   Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War, and the provisions of the Treaty of Paris.
8. The arguments presented by both the anti-imperialists and the imperialists in the debate over acquisition of an empire, and why the imperialists prevailed.
9. Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American policy toward Asia in general and toward China, the Philippines, and Japan, specifically.
10. United States policy toward the countries of Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
    
    

Chapter 23 — Americans at War, 1914-1920

1. Europe's descent into the First World War.
2. Both President Woodrow Wilson's attempts and the attempts of anti-war activists to keep the United States out of the First World War, and the ultimate failure of those efforts.
3. The response of Americans to the First World War and to American entry into the war, and the extent to which United States participation influenced the outcome of the conflict.
4. The characteristics of draftees and volunteers in the American armed forces during the First World War and their lives as soldiers.
5. The impact of the First World War on the American home front, including its impact on the federal government, business, labor, women, and African Americans.
6. The record of government at the local, state, and national levels on civil-liberties questions during and after the war.
7. The differences and similarities between Wilsonianism and the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
8. The debate over ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and American entry into the League of Nations, and the Senate's rejection of the treaty.
9. The impact of the First World War on America's role in world affairs.
   
   

Quizzes

• Textbook Quiz — chapter 22     chapter 23  
• Mrs. Pojer's Quizzes
  • The Imperial Republic  A   B    C    D  
  • World War I   A   B    C        

Documents

• Mahan Defines Security in Terms of Sea Power (1897)
• American Neutrality Policy (1914)
• The Visual Image of the Enemy (1917)

Study Aids

• Mrs. Ruland's Notes
  • The White Man's Burden
  • The Climate of Imperialism
  • Panama Canal
  • Civil Liberties During World War I
  • The Fourteen Points
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - An Outline of American History
  • Chapter Seven: Growth and Transformation
  • Chapter Eight: Discontent and Reform
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Modules on Major Topics
  • The United States Becomes a World Power
  • World War I
• Digital History
  • Guided Readings
    • The United States Becomes a World Power
    • America at War: World War I
  • Explorations
    • Learn About the United States Becomes a World Power
    • Learn About World War I
  • Lessons
    • Imperialism and the Spainish American War
    • World War I
  • Timeline
    • A Chronolgy of the Gilded Age
    • A Chronolgy of the Spanish American War
  • A Chronology of World War I
  • Landmarks in Immigration History
• Professor Stanley K. Schultz' lecture notes (University of Wisconsin)
  • The Policemen of the World
  • Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Morality of Power
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to American History II
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to American History III
• George Burson, Aspen CO
  • United States 1890s: Populism
  • World War I
• Academic American History, Henry J. Sage, Northern Virginia Community College
  • The Gilded Age and Reconstruction, 1865-1900
  • Progressivism, Imperialism, World War, 1900-1920
• Mr. Feldmeth - Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA
  • Key Events and Battles: Spanish-American War - chart
  • U.S. Involvement in World War I - chart
  • World War I's Aftermath: Attack on Civil Liberties and Betrayal at Versailles - outline
  • Case Studies: Civil Liberties in World War I
• Timeline- 1851 to 1900 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Timeline- 1901 to 1950 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Presidential Election Data (David Leip) — 1880    1884     1888    1892    1896     1900    1904    1908     1912    1916    1920 
• Cram Sheet (Renata Melamud)
  • Grant through Cleveland
  • McKinley through Wilson
• Crossroads
  • "What, Then, Is This America" 1865-1900
  • "Waves of Reform, 1880-1921
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
  • The American Jewish Experience: Immigration and Acculturation
  • The American Jewish Experience: Antisemitism and Assimilation
  • Mormonism and the American Mainstream
  • The Rise of Fundamentalism
  • Roman Catholics and the American Mainstream in the 20th Century
  • Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America

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