The+Progressive+Era+and+Imperialism+-+Units+11+and+12

Previous multiple choice questions have covered:

W.E.B DuBois Booker T. Washington (Atlanta Compromise) Black Codes Exodusters Ida B. Wells Slaughter House Cases Redeemers Plessy v. Ferguson Populism Omaha Platform Silver vs Gold debates "Cross of Gold" speech Sherman Anti-Trust Act Volstead Act Pure Food and Drug Act Theodore Roosevelt The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair Federal Trade Commission Federal Reserve System Woodrow Wilson Constitutional Amendments regarding: income tax, women's suffrage, prohibition and direct election of senators Turner Thesis (or Frontier Thesis) Why the US declared war on Spain in 1898 Yellow journalism Open Door Policy Joseph Pulitzer US acquisitions in Spanish-American War Jingoism Roosevelt Corollary William Howard Taft Dollar Diplomacy Controversy with the Philippines after the Spanish-American War Why blacks migrated north during WWI "Birth of a Nation" Committee on Public Information Liberty Loans Neutrality at the beginning of WWI Wilson's Fourteen Points League of Nations (what it was and why the US never joined)

The following is a list of previous DBQs and FRQs from past exams:

1. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915, assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed.
 * __DBQs__**

2. To what extent was late nineteenth century and early twentieth century United States expansionism a continuation of the past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Use the documents and your knowledge of United States history to 1914 to construct your answer.

3. Relying on a critical evaluation of the accompanying documents, analyze the factors that probably influenced Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924.

4. "It was the strength of opposition forces, rather than the ineptitude and stubbornness of President Wilson that led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles." Using the documents and your knowledge of the period from 1917 to 1921, assess the validity of this statement.

1. Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.
 * __FRQs__**

2. Analyze the ways in which state and federal legislation and judicial decisions, including those of the Supreme Court, affected the efforts of any TWO of the following groups to improve their position in society between 1880 and 1920: (1) African Americans, (2) Farmers, (3) Workers

3. To what extent and why did the United States adopt an isolationist policy in the 1920s and 1930s?

4. Assess the relative influence of THREE of the following in the American decision to declare war on Germany in 1917: (1) German naval policy, (2) American economic interests, (3) Woodrow Wilson's idealism, (4) Allied propaganda, and (5) America's claim to world power.

5. To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter the First World War?

6. Describe and account for the rise of nativism in American society from 1900 to 1930.

7. Analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers in addressing problems of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In your answer, focus on reform efforts in TWO of the following areas: (1) State and federal government, (2) The workplace, and (3) Living conditions in the cities.

8. Analyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following: (1) politics, (2) social conditions, and (3) labor and working conditions.

__**AP Topics**__ Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century Origins of the Progressive reform; municipal, state, and national Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson as Progressive presidents Women's roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives
 * Populism and Progressivism**

American imperialism: political and economic expansion War in Europe and American neutrality The First World War at home and abroad Treaty of Versailles Society and economy in the postwar years
 * The Emergence of America as a World Power**