6 min read•december 21, 2021
In AP® US History, period 7 spans from 1898 to 1945 CE. The following guide will be updated periodically with hyperlinks to excellent resources. As you are reviewing for this era, focus on the key concepts and use the essential questions to guide you.
👉 Check the Fiveable calendar for this week's APUSH live stream!
🎥Live Stream Replay - Period 7 Review
STUDY TIP: You will never be asked specifically to identify a date. However, knowing the order of events will help immensely with cause and effect. For this reason, we have identified the most important dates to know.
1898 - Annexation of Hawaii
1898 - Spanish American War
1903 - Wright Brothers
1917 - US enters WWI
1920 - Women’s Suffrage
1920s - Red Scare
1920s - Prohibition
1929 - Stock Market Crash
1932 - Bonus Army
1935 - Social Security Act
1939 - WWII starts in Europe
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
1944 - D-Day
1945 - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
STUDY TIP: Use the following essential questions to guide your review of this entire unit. Keep in mind, these are not meant to be practice essay questions. Each question was written to help you summarize the key concept.
What were the goals and achievements of the Progressive Era?
How did the growth of mass culture affect US society?
In what ways did the global conflicts of the early 20th century affect the United States?
🧭 Study Guide: Contextualization to Period Seven
STUDY TIP: Content from the this era has appeared on the essays twenty times since 2000. Take a look at these questions before you review the key concepts & vocabulary below to get a sense of how you will be assessed. Then, come back to these later and practice writing as many as you can!
*The APUSH exam was significantly revised in 2015, so any questions from before then are not representative of the current exam format. You can still use prior questions to practice, however DBQs will have more than 7 documents, the LEQ prompts are worded differently, and the rubrics are completely different. Use questions from 2002-2014 with caution. Essays from 1973-1999 available here.
2017 - SAQ 2: Effect of WWII on society
2016 - LEQ 3: WWI and US foreign policy
2015 - SAQ 2: Environmental policies
2014 - DBQ: US Foreign policy 1918-1953
2012 - LEQ 3: Cultural conflicts of the 1920s
2011 - LEQ 4: Opposition to Immigration
2011 - LEQ 5: African American leadership
2010 - LEQ 4: Progressive women
2008 - LEQ 5: Shift of political parties
2006 - LEQ 4: Progressive reforms
2004 - LEQ 4: Progressive reforms vs. New Deal
2003 - DBQ: New Deal effectiveness
2003 - LEQ 5: United States society
2002 - LEQ 4: Foreign policy after WWI & WWII
2001 - LEQ 5: Rise of Nativism
2000 - LEQ 4: Objectives of WWI
*The following outline was adapted from the AP® United States History Course Description as published by College Board in 2019 found here. This outline reflects the most recent revisions to the course.
🎥Live Stream Replay - Progressive Amendments
🎥Live Stream Replay - The Great Depression & the New Deal
The US continued to transition from rural to urban economies led by large corporations.
Progressive activists called for reforms to combat political corruption and instability.
Legislation was enacted in the 1930s to recover and reform the economy while providing relief for mass unemployment and financial crises.
🎥Live Stream Replay - Black Leaders Under Jim Crow
🎥Live Stream Replay - The Roaring 20s
⚡️Study Guide - Innovations of the 1920s
Popular culture influenced and connected more people.
Migration patterns were influenced by global conflict.
🎥Live Stream Replay - World War I
🎥Live Stream Replay - World War II
The US participated in imperialism ventures around the world, which sparked debates.
World War I intensified debates about the role of the US in the world.
WWII transformed American society and resulted in the US as a global superpower.
STUDY TIP: These are the concepts and vocabulary from period 7 that most commonly appear on the exam. Create a quizlet deck to make sure you are familiar with these terms!
Deep breath. This one of the most vocab heavy units.
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
Albert Einstein
American plan
annexation
Anti-imperialist League
Appeasement
assembly line
Atlantic Charter
Australian ballot
Big-Stick Policy
Birth of a Nation
Black Tuesday
Bolshevik Revolution
Bonus Army
Central Powers
Charles Lindbergh
Civilian Conservation Corps
Clayton Antitrust Act
code talkers
Committee on Public Information
consumer culture
Court-packing plan
Dawes Plan
direct primary
dollar diplomacy
Double V
Dust Bowl
Eleanor Roosevelt
Espionage Act
Executive Order 9066
fascism
Father Charles Coughlin
Florence Kelley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gentlemen's Agreement
Good Neighbor Policy
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Harry Truman
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Ford
Hoovervilles
Huey P. Long
Hundred Days
Immigration Quotas 1921 & 1924
imperialism
initiative
isolationism
Jacob Riis
jingoism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Keynesian economics
Korematsu v. US
Langston Hughes
League of Nations
Lend-Lease Act
Lost Generation
Manhattan Project
Marcus Garvey
Meat Inspection Act
muckrakers
Muller v. Oregon
NAACP
Neutrality Act
New Deal
Open Door Policy
overproduction
pan-Africanism
Panama Canal
Pearl Harbor
pragmatism
progressivism
Pure Food & Drug Act
Quarantine speech
Red Scare
referendum
reparations
Roosevelt Corollary
Rosie the Riveter
rough riders
Sacco & Vanzetti
Schenck v. United States
scientific management
Scopes Trial
self-determination
Sigmund Freud
social gospel
socialism
Social Security Act
Spanish-American War
Square Deal
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Treaty of Versailles
U-boats
Upton Sinclair
Volstead Act
Wagner Act
War Production Board
War Refugee Board
Wilson's 14 Points
Women's Christian Temperance Union
xenophobia
yellow journalism
Zimmerman note
6 min read•december 21, 2021
In AP® US History, period 7 spans from 1898 to 1945 CE. The following guide will be updated periodically with hyperlinks to excellent resources. As you are reviewing for this era, focus on the key concepts and use the essential questions to guide you.
👉 Check the Fiveable calendar for this week's APUSH live stream!
🎥Live Stream Replay - Period 7 Review
STUDY TIP: You will never be asked specifically to identify a date. However, knowing the order of events will help immensely with cause and effect. For this reason, we have identified the most important dates to know.
1898 - Annexation of Hawaii
1898 - Spanish American War
1903 - Wright Brothers
1917 - US enters WWI
1920 - Women’s Suffrage
1920s - Red Scare
1920s - Prohibition
1929 - Stock Market Crash
1932 - Bonus Army
1935 - Social Security Act
1939 - WWII starts in Europe
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
1944 - D-Day
1945 - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
STUDY TIP: Use the following essential questions to guide your review of this entire unit. Keep in mind, these are not meant to be practice essay questions. Each question was written to help you summarize the key concept.
What were the goals and achievements of the Progressive Era?
How did the growth of mass culture affect US society?
In what ways did the global conflicts of the early 20th century affect the United States?
🧭 Study Guide: Contextualization to Period Seven
STUDY TIP: Content from the this era has appeared on the essays twenty times since 2000. Take a look at these questions before you review the key concepts & vocabulary below to get a sense of how you will be assessed. Then, come back to these later and practice writing as many as you can!
*The APUSH exam was significantly revised in 2015, so any questions from before then are not representative of the current exam format. You can still use prior questions to practice, however DBQs will have more than 7 documents, the LEQ prompts are worded differently, and the rubrics are completely different. Use questions from 2002-2014 with caution. Essays from 1973-1999 available here.
2017 - SAQ 2: Effect of WWII on society
2016 - LEQ 3: WWI and US foreign policy
2015 - SAQ 2: Environmental policies
2014 - DBQ: US Foreign policy 1918-1953
2012 - LEQ 3: Cultural conflicts of the 1920s
2011 - LEQ 4: Opposition to Immigration
2011 - LEQ 5: African American leadership
2010 - LEQ 4: Progressive women
2008 - LEQ 5: Shift of political parties
2006 - LEQ 4: Progressive reforms
2004 - LEQ 4: Progressive reforms vs. New Deal
2003 - DBQ: New Deal effectiveness
2003 - LEQ 5: United States society
2002 - LEQ 4: Foreign policy after WWI & WWII
2001 - LEQ 5: Rise of Nativism
2000 - LEQ 4: Objectives of WWI
*The following outline was adapted from the AP® United States History Course Description as published by College Board in 2019 found here. This outline reflects the most recent revisions to the course.
🎥Live Stream Replay - Progressive Amendments
🎥Live Stream Replay - The Great Depression & the New Deal
The US continued to transition from rural to urban economies led by large corporations.
Progressive activists called for reforms to combat political corruption and instability.
Legislation was enacted in the 1930s to recover and reform the economy while providing relief for mass unemployment and financial crises.
🎥Live Stream Replay - Black Leaders Under Jim Crow
🎥Live Stream Replay - The Roaring 20s
⚡️Study Guide - Innovations of the 1920s
Popular culture influenced and connected more people.
Migration patterns were influenced by global conflict.
🎥Live Stream Replay - World War I
🎥Live Stream Replay - World War II
The US participated in imperialism ventures around the world, which sparked debates.
World War I intensified debates about the role of the US in the world.
WWII transformed American society and resulted in the US as a global superpower.
STUDY TIP: These are the concepts and vocabulary from period 7 that most commonly appear on the exam. Create a quizlet deck to make sure you are familiar with these terms!
Deep breath. This one of the most vocab heavy units.
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
Albert Einstein
American plan
annexation
Anti-imperialist League
Appeasement
assembly line
Atlantic Charter
Australian ballot
Big-Stick Policy
Birth of a Nation
Black Tuesday
Bolshevik Revolution
Bonus Army
Central Powers
Charles Lindbergh
Civilian Conservation Corps
Clayton Antitrust Act
code talkers
Committee on Public Information
consumer culture
Court-packing plan
Dawes Plan
direct primary
dollar diplomacy
Double V
Dust Bowl
Eleanor Roosevelt
Espionage Act
Executive Order 9066
fascism
Father Charles Coughlin
Florence Kelley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gentlemen's Agreement
Good Neighbor Policy
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Harry Truman
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Ford
Hoovervilles
Huey P. Long
Hundred Days
Immigration Quotas 1921 & 1924
imperialism
initiative
isolationism
Jacob Riis
jingoism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Keynesian economics
Korematsu v. US
Langston Hughes
League of Nations
Lend-Lease Act
Lost Generation
Manhattan Project
Marcus Garvey
Meat Inspection Act
muckrakers
Muller v. Oregon
NAACP
Neutrality Act
New Deal
Open Door Policy
overproduction
pan-Africanism
Panama Canal
Pearl Harbor
pragmatism
progressivism
Pure Food & Drug Act
Quarantine speech
Red Scare
referendum
reparations
Roosevelt Corollary
Rosie the Riveter
rough riders
Sacco & Vanzetti
Schenck v. United States
scientific management
Scopes Trial
self-determination
Sigmund Freud
social gospel
socialism
Social Security Act
Spanish-American War
Square Deal
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Treaty of Versailles
U-boats
Upton Sinclair
Volstead Act
Wagner Act
War Production Board
War Refugee Board
Wilson's 14 Points
Women's Christian Temperance Union
xenophobia
yellow journalism
Zimmerman note
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