Unit 7 APUS Review

  1. “Cross of Gold”
  2. 14 Points
  3. 16th amendment
  4. 17th amendment
  5. 18th Amendment
  6. 19th Amendment
  7. Birth of a Nation
  8. Booker T Washington
  9. Committee on Public Information
  10. Creel Committee
  11. Eugene Debs
  12. Farmers’ alliance movement
  13. Federal Reserve system
  14. Federal Trade Commission
  15. Freedom of the Seas
  16. Great Migration
  17. Henry Ford’s Model T automobile
  18. Initive
  19. Isolationism
  20. Jacob Riis
  21. jingoism
  22. Joseph Pulitzer
  23. Louis Brandeis’s
  24. Mann Act
  25. Muckrakers
  26. Niagra Movement
  27. Open Door Notes
  28. Open Door Policy
  29. Palmer Raids
  30. People’s (Populists) party
  31. pragmatic
  32. Pure Food and Drug Act
  33. Recall
  34. Referendum
  35. Roosevelt Corollary
  36. Russo-Japanese War
  37. Theodore Roosevelt
  38. Treaty of Versailles
  39. Upton Sinclair
  40. W.E.B Dubois
  41. War Boards
  42. War Industries Board
  43. William Howard Taft
  44. William James
  45. William Jennings Bryans
  46. Women’s Suffrage movement
  47. Woodrow Wilson

  1. Describe the members and the leadership of the progressive party.
  2. Why did Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism?
  3. Why did the farmers protest movement lose momentum at the end of the 1890’s?
  4. What was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American Cities at the end of the nineteenth century?
  5. During the First World War, what was the purpose of propaganda ?
  6. Why did the United States fail to join the League of Nations after the First World War?
  7. Why did the United States enter into the war with Spain in 1898?
  8. As a result of the Spanish-American War, Spain relinquished control of what areas to the United States?
  9. What were the goals of Progressives?
  10. How did the United States deal with Cuba in the years after the Spanish-American War?
  11. Descinbe what occurred in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War,
  12. What was the impact the introduction of photoengraving in magazines and newspapers?
  13. What was the goal of urban planners and architects like Daniel Burnham? What were the goals of the Populist party?
  14. What did Grover Cleveland think was the way to deal with the depression of 1893-1897?
  15. During the late nineteenth century, what was the relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?
  16. How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?
  17. Why was Confidence in the gold standard weakened in the early 1890s?
  18. How was the American economy impacted during World War I?
  19. What was President Wilson’s first official response when war broke out in Europe in 1914?
  20. Why did the United States begin to lend money to the European powers after August 1915?
  21. Why did temperance advocates receive a boost from World War I?
  22. Why did some members of the American Expeditionary Force go to Russia after WWI?
  23. Durung the 1880s and 1890s, why did many Americans argued that the United States should take a more expansionist role in the world?
  24. What might be considered Theodore Roosevelt’s most enduring domestic legacy?
  25. What occurred as a result othe coal strike of 1902? How was this different then previous strikes?
  26. What was the fundamental difference between the temperance movement in the Progressive Era and the temperance crusades of earlier eras?
  27. What were the causes for the growing split in the Republican party during the administration of William Howard Taft?
  28. What were the goals of the progressive reformers?
  29. During World War I how were many German-Americans treated?
  30. How did Herbert Hoover manage the nation’s agriculture during World War I?
  31. Describe the American aremy when the United States entered World War I.
  32. Summarize the Presidencies of Ethan of the Following
  1. Benjamin Harrison?
  2. Grover Cleveland
  3. McKinely

Possible Free Response Questions

1.To what extent did the role of the federal government change under President Theodore Roosevelt

in regard to TWO of the following:

  • Conservation
  • Labor
  • Trusts

World affairs

2.Assess the relative influence of THREE of the following in the American decision to declare war on Germany in 1917. (1995)

  • German naval policy
  • American economic interests
  • Woodrow Wilson’s idealism
  • Allied propaganda
  • America’s claim to world power

3.Compare and Contrast the foreign Policies of Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson.

4.Analyze the extent to which the Spanish American was was a turning point in American Foreign Policy

5.To what extent did the role of the Government change under President Teddy Roosevel in reguards to the following

  • Labor
  • Trusts
  • Conservation
  • World Affairs

6.Analyxe the primary causes of population shift from a rural to an urban environment between 1875-1925.

7.Analyze the ways in which state and federal legislation and judicial decisions, including those of the Supreme Court affected the efforts of the following groups to improve their position in society between 1880-1920

  • African Americans
  • Farmers
  • Immigrants
  • Workers

8.Explain how the following individuals responded to the economics and social problems created by industrialization during the late 19th and 20th centuries

  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Eugene Debs
  • Jane Adams
  • Lincoln Stefens
  • Samuel Gompers
  • Upton Sinclair

9.To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter the First World War? (2000)