By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain why the North and South differed over the admission of Missouri as a state
Explain how the admission of new states to the Union threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states in Congress
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how economic power helped to expand America’s empire in China
Describe how the foreign partitioning of China in the last decade of the nineteenth century influenced American policy
Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
Economic Imperialism in East Asia
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the meaning of “big stick” foreign policy
Describe Theodore Roosevelt’s use of the “big stick” to construct the Panama Canal
Explain the role of the United States in ending the Russo-Japanese War
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how William Howard Taft used American economic power to protect the nation’s interests in its new empire
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the origins and events of the Spanish-American War
Analyze the different American opinions on empire at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War
Describe how the Spanish-American War intersected with other American expansions to solidify the nation’s new position as an empire
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the evolution of American interest in foreign affairs from the end of the Civil War through the early 1890s
Identify the contributions of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan to the conscious creation of an American empire
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how the status of organized labor changed during the First World War
Describe how the lives of women and African Americans changed as a result of American participation in World War I
Explain how America’s participation in World War I allowed for the passage of prohibition and women’s suffrage
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy and the difficulties of maintaining American neutrality at the outset of World War I
Identify the key factors that led to the U.S. declaration of war on Germany in April 1917
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Identify the challenges that the United States faced following the conclusion of World War I
Explain Warren G. Harding’s landslide victory in the 1920 presidential election
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Identify the role that the United States played at the end of World War I
Describe Woodrow Wilson’s vision for the postwar world
Explain why the United States never formally approved the Treaty of Versailles nor joined the League of Nations
American Isolationism and the European Origins of the War
The United States Prepares for War
A New Home Front
From War to Peace
Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Identify the steps taken by the U.S. government to secure enough men, money, food, and supplies to prosecute World War I
Explain how the U.S. government attempted to sway popular opinion in favor of the war effort
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how Great Britain’s response to the destruction of a British shipment of tea in Boston Harbor in 1773 set the stage for the Revolution
Describe the beginnings of the American Revolution
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain Loyalist and Patriot sentiments
Identify different groups that participated in the Revolutionary War
Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
The Early Years of the Revolution
War in the South
Identity during the American Revolution
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the British and American strategies of 1776 through 1778
Identify the key battles of the early years of the Revolution