Why did racial, ethnic, and gender divisions arise in American society between the end of Reconstruction and the 1920s? What were the divisions and what were they based on?

Study the following terms for the multiple-choice part of;

Muckrakers

Progressives

Fordism

Industrial Workers of the World

Jane Addams

John Muir

Social Darwinism

Isolationism

World War I

–Outbreak

–American home front

Zimmerman Telegram

Woodrow Wilson

–Foreign policy

–Fourteen Points

“Open Door” policy

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt Corollary

Pancho Villa

Allies v. Central Powers

Prohibition

Race riots

Marcus Garvey

Immigration (1920s)

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Automobile industry

Scopes Trial

Harlem Renaissance

Great Depression

Essay Questions:

1. How and why did American society industrialize during the late nineteenth century? What led to political change and progressive reform movements (be specific—discuss political changes and what reforms?)? What were the causes and consequences of urbanization?
2. How did the United States emerge as a world power by 1914? Be specific—discuss the example of the Panama Canal, the liberation of Cuba in the Spanish American War and subsequent “imperialist” kinds of actions.
3. Why did racial, ethnic, and gender divisions arise in American society between the end of Reconstruction and the 1920s? What were the divisions and what were they based on?