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STUDY GUIDE
A Few Words To Describe This Time:
- Progressive
- Involved foreign policy
- Powerful fed gov
- WWI
1ST MAJOR PERIOD TIMELINE (1900-1920)
Event: Significance: Analysis
War of 1898: First effort @ imperialism -Primary for economic reasons -Motivated by anglo-saxonism , nationalism
1898 Treaty of Paris US gains Philippines, annexes Hawaii -Purpose to gain sphere of influence -Secures western imperialist power
1900 Boxer rebellion US joins multinational force to crush Boxer Rebellion in China
-Shows US involvement in foreign affairs (progressive government)
Anti-imperialist league Organization which opposed imperialism, made up of various dif people
-US imperialism went against its founding values (Constitution)
1902 Platt Amendment Granted Cuba semi-independence -Purpose to retain sphere of influence
1904 Roosevelt Corollary
Overturned Monroe Doctrine, asserted US as ‘world police’
-Shows US involvement in foreign affairs (progressive government)
1905 Russo-Japanese War + Root-Takahira Agreement
US retains free trade rights with East Asia in an agreement with Japan
-Imperialism was primarily motivated by economic reasons, and used social ideologies to justify it
1914: Neutrality Acts Wilson declares US neutrality in WWI due to warring states’ militarism, alliances, and imperialism
-Showed beginning of isolationist belief in America: war was a ‘European’ one
1917: US enters WWI, Sussex Pledge, Lusitania
Enters war due to German aggression, temporarily boosted economic revenue for Americans, labor unions power
Shift from neutrality to entering war
1917-1918: Espionage and Sedition Acts
-Stifled free speech/bad mouthing the government
-Justified US to arrest socialist leaders within the US due to rising fear of socialism
1919 Chicago race riots, labor riots
-Riots due to fear of socialism, other races/ethnicities
-Showed continuity of discrimination against blacks
1918: Wilson’s 14 Points
Rejection of 14 points and proposal to join league of nations
-Sign of an increasingly isolationist government
1920: Red Scare -Fear of rise of socialism within US at its highest point
-Helped Republicans assert power again, signaled the end of the Progressive era
1920: 19th Amendment Women's suffrage granted -Granted as wartime measure because women were needed, not as a social advancement
1920 Election Republican Warren G Harding wins presidency -Beginning of the Republican era of presidents, era of conservatism
OTHER EVIDENCE (LONG-TERM TRENDS, OTHERS THAT HAVE NO
SPECIFIC DATE):
- Propaganda (used to promote pro-war sentiment and shut out immigrant culture during the Red Scare, as socialism was apart of foreign cultures)
- Federal wartime gov agencies: showed progressive gov assertion of power
1920-1930: A Few Words To Describe This Time:
- Conservative
- Isolationist
- Limited fed gov
- Post-WW1: era of modernity and conservatism
- Harlem renaissance, consumerism
- Republican gov, rej of immigrants
1ST MAJOR PERIOD TIMELINE (1920-1930)
Event: Significance: Analysis
Welfare capitalism Gave gov sponsored labor advantages included in the job (e.g vacations, breaks)
This in conjunction with the Red Scare limited labor unions’ powers
1917-1918: Espionage and Sedition Acts 1919 Chicago race riots, labor riots
-Stifled free speech/bad mouthing the government -Riots due to fear of socialism, other races/ethnicities -Strikes due to economic decline post WWI
-Justified US to arrest socialist leaders within the US due to rising fear of socialism -Showed continuity of discrimination against blacks despite growth of Harlem Renaissance
1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff
-raised tariffs, which further discouraged international trade which worsened GD -fueled international trade wars
-Example of a Republican policy worsening GD and providing basis to start favoring Dem party
1932 Bonus Army -ex veterans request their pensions from their service early, denied and chased out by Hoover
-Example of Hoover making himself less and less popular
1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation
-early effort to recover large businesses but not nearly enough
-Hoover’s rep policies were too conservative and did not do enough
1933 FDR Inaugural address + fireside chats
-proposed vague plan of recovery, significant as every single type of person/class/ethnicity ALL voted one political side in this time, the GD worsened even more
-goal to earn US people’s trust in government -election united US people
1933-1938: New Deal -series of 3 R’s:
1933 Glass Steagall Act
1933 Federal Security Act
-created FDIC which reformed banking management and saved its industry -Established a ‘policing’ force in the stock market
-Example of economic recovery–First New Deal centered around ec
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps
-gov provided jobs to ordinary citizens -First New Deal policy centered around social welfare
1933 National Recovery Administration
-Effort to recover pre-industrial production levels
-DID NOT end the GD
1937-1938: Roosevelt Recession
