APUSH: UNIT 8 OVERVIEW
Progressivism and War: 1899-1929
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 27-31
Key Concepts
19. Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale
industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass
migration.
20. A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass
culture and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased
under the pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
UNIT 8 VOCABULARY: NEED TO KNOW!
 Utilize the following as you read for Unit 8. Follow the “50 Day Reading Challenge” as we proceed!
 Unit Assignments are listed in Canvas (Unit 8 Module!)
CHAPTER 27
Big Sister policy
Great Rapprochment
McKinley Tariff
insurrectos
Maine
Teller Amendment
Rough Riders
Anti-Imperialist League
Foraker Act
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
Open Door Note
Boxer Rebellion
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
Root-Takahira
Agreement
Josiah Strong
Alfred Thayer Mahan
James G. Blaine
Richard Olney
Liliuokalani
“Butcher” Weyler
Dupuy de Lome
George Dewey
Emilio Aguinaldo
William H. Taft
John Hay
Teddy Roosevelt
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
social gospel
muckrakers
initiative
referendum
recall
Australian ballot
Muller v. Oregon
Lochner v. New York
Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
Elkins Act
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Hetch Hetchy Valley
dollar diplomacy
Payne-Aldrich Bill
New Freedom
New Nationalism
Underwood Tariff
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
holding companies
Workingmen’s
Compensation Act
Adamson Act
Jones Act
Tampico Incident
Central Powers
Allies
U-Boats
Lusitania
Bolshevik Revolution
red scare
criminal syndicalism laws
American plan
Ku Klux Klan
Bible Belt
Immigration Act of 1924
Eighteenth Amendment
Volstead Act
racketeers
Fundamentalism
Scientific Management
Fordism
United Negro Improvement
Association
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Thostein Veblen
Jacob Riis
Robert (“Fighting Bob”)
LaFollette
Hiram Johnson
Florence Kelley
Francis Willard
Gifford Pinchot
John Muir
Herbert Croly
Louis Brandeis
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa
John (“Black Jack”) Pershing
Charles Evans Hughes
Zimmerman Note
Fourteen Points
Committee on Public
Information
Espionage Act
Schenck v. United States
War Industries Board
National War Labor Board
Industrial Workers of the
World
Nineteenth Amendment
Sheppard-Towner Maternity
Act
Battle of Chateau-Thierry
Meuse-Argonne offensive
League of Nations
irreconcilables
Treaty of Versailles
“What is excellence? To be
thoroughly dissatisfied with
yourself in a constructive way –
objectively knowing the
difference between where you
are and where you could be,
without self-pity or selfjustification.”
-- PRAUSNITZ
Arthur Zimmerman
George Creel
Eugene V. Debs
William D. (“Big Bill”)
Haywood
Bernard Baruch
Herbert C. Hoover
Henry Cabot Lodge
David Lloyd George
A. Mitchell Palmer
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Horace Kallen
Randolph Bourne
Al Capone
John T. Scopes
Frederick W. Taylor
Henry Ford
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sigmund Freud
History is the
interpretation of past
events with an eye on
the present and a
vision of the future!
OUR APPROACH TO UNIT 8
(23 January – 9 February)
For 3 weeks we will be exploring 1899-1929. Our class time will be spent honing skills related to
document analysis and writing. Our focus will be on the following topics:
WEEK OF 23 JANUARY
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Imperialism: Why?
Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection
Teddy’s Diplomacy
WEEK OF 30 JANUARY
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Progressivism: Why?
Election of 1912
Lead-up to the Great War
WEEK OF 6 FEBRUARY
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The 50-Day Reading Challenge
will take you through Chapter 30
by the end of Unit 8 – roughly
the period from 1890-1930.
The challenge is to read 7 pages
per day using the 4-Question
Approach that you were
introduced to in September!
Keep up with the reading!
World War I
Versailles Treaty
Aftermath and Reaction: 1920s
UNIT WORK (remember that your main task is to READ!)
1. TOP 40 Dates Test #6: 4
2. Complete HTS Paragraphs for those items shaded red from the Unit Vocabulary – there
are 10 of them. DUE Friday 12 February!
3. Also be prepared to do several DBQ exercises in class – you will have a 1 or 2 day notice on
those.
We are “crossing over” to the 20th Century in Unit 8! The picture to
left is familiar to you, I’m sure. Had you been a high school student
in BRF prior to 1897, you would have been going to school at Union
High School. It was considered one of the premier schools in the
region at the time. It was built in 1871 (aptly named “Union High
School”) and cost roughly $20,000 to construct. The bricks came
from the Spaulding Brickyard, located in the yet to be developed
western edge of the town (today the site of the 1st green on the golf
course). Can you hear the echoes of those early students? Imagine
them studying the Civil War!
AS WE BEGIN ROUND 2 OF THIS CLASS, LET’S BUILD AROUND
WHAT I LIKE TO REFER TO AS THE “3 R’S”:
#1: RESPECT
#2: RECIPROCITY
#3: RELATIONSHIP