"We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage."
- Theodore Roosevelt, speech at the Sorbonne, France, Apr. 23, 1910
- Theodore Roosevelt, speech at the Sorbonne, France, Apr. 23, 1910
Period 7: 1890-1945
Domestic and Global Challenges
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
Key Concept 7.1: Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.
Key Concept 7.2: Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.
Key Concept 7.3: Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.
- The United States continued its transition from a rural, agricultural economy to an urban, industrial economy led by large companies.
- In the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, Progressives responded to political corruption, economic instability, and social concerns by calling for greater government action and other political and social measures.
- During the 1930s, policymakers responded to the mass unemployment and social upheavals of the Great Depression by transforming the U.S. into a limited welfare state, redefining the goals and ideas of modern American liberalism.
Key Concept 7.2: Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.
- Popular culture grew in influence in U.S. society, even as debates increased over the effects of culture on public values, morals, and American national identity.
- Economic pressures, global events, and political developments caused sharp variations in the numbers, sources, and experiences of both international and internal migrants.
Key Concept 7.3: Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.
- In the late 19th century and early 20th century, new U.S. territorial ambitions and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific accompanied heightened public debates over America’s role in the world.
- World War I and its aftermath intensified ongoing debates about the nation’s role in the world and how best to achieve national security and pursue American interests.
- U.S. participation in World War II transformed American society, while the victory of the United States and its allies over the Axis powers vaulted the U.S. into a position of global, political, and military leadership.
Chapter 20: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives (1880-1917)
Aim: What makes 1901-1917 so “Progressive”?
"I am, therefore, a Progressive because we have not kept up with our own changes of conditions, either in the economic field or in the political field. We have not kept up as well as other nations have. We have not adjusted our practices to the facts of the case...”
-Woodrow Wilson, 1912
-Woodrow Wilson, 1912
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Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power
Aim: How does the United States become a world power?
“We are Anglo-Saxons, and must obey our blood and occupy new markets, and, if necessary, new lands.” -Senator Albert Beveridge, April 27, 1898
“Our form of government, our traditions, our present interests, and our future welfare, all forbid our entering upon a career of conquest.”
-William Jennings Bryan, December 13, 1898
“Our form of government, our traditions, our present interests, and our future welfare, all forbid our entering upon a career of conquest.”
-William Jennings Bryan, December 13, 1898
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Chapter 22: Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust (1919-1932)
Aim: How does America transition from the War to a time of peace?
"It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,
That all his hours of travail here for men
Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace
That he may sleep upon his hill again?"
- Vachel Linday, "Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight," 1914
That all his hours of travail here for men
Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace
That he may sleep upon his hill again?"
- Vachel Linday, "Abraham Lincoln walks at Midnight," 1914
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Chapter 23: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal (1929-1939)
Aim: How does the U.S. go from Boom, to Bust?
"Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?"
-Bing Crosby - Brother Can You Spare A Dime Lyrics, 1932
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?"
-Bing Crosby - Brother Can You Spare A Dime Lyrics, 1932
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Chapter 24: The World at War (1937-1945)
Aim: How does a Second World War affect America?
"We seek peace-enduring peace. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
-F.D.R., April 13th, 1945
-F.D.R., April 13th, 1945
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