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Resources for AP United States History Course Unit - Rise of American Imperialism (1898-1918)
Updated on Mar 07, 10
Created on Mar 31, 09
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Mr Maher's List: APUS History Unit 4 - Rise of American Imperialism and the Great War
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Imperialism
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Spanish American War
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Woodrow Wilson
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World War I
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Documents World War I
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Mar 21, 07
This telegram, written by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann, is a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States. The obvious threats to the United States contained in the telegram inflamed American public opinion against Germany and helped convince Congress to declare war against Germany in 1917.
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World War I American Homefront
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Mar 21, 07
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States. What started as a labor dispute between copper mining companies and their workers turned into vigilante action against the allegedly nefarious activities of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). This site is a research-based collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of the deportation of over 1,000 striking miners from Bisbee on 12 July, 1917
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Mar 21, 07
The Chicago Daily Tribune, long considered the most antagonistic of all the city's papers toward African Americans, detailed the day's violence, the good deeds of white policemen who were sent to Chicago's South Side, and the injuries they sustained at the hands of black rioters.
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Mar 21, 07
Letters from Lloyd Maywood Staley to his sweetheart Mary Beatrice Gray (my grandmother, of course!). They were all written during World War One
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Mar 21, 07
In an editorial immediately following the Chicago race riot of 1919, Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois argued in favor of acts of self-defense and armed resistance, despite the editorial's conciliatory title, "Let Us Reason Together."
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Mar 21, 07
Shocked by the scale of the influenza outbreak, none could fathom the lack of respect shown for those who had died
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Mar 21, 07
Shortly before President Woodrow Wilson’s call for war on April 2, 1917, the editors of a conservative magazine, the North American Review, laid out the basic arguments for U.S. participation.
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Mar 21, 07
Contributed by readers, this "month's worth of recipes" printed in August 1917 demonstrated conservation in action, as well as women's ingenuity in redesigning menus to observe rationing guidelines.
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Mar 21, 07
Presenting domestic work as patriotic effort, this U.S. Food Administration campaign in Good Housekeeping offered women a membership shield and even provided instructions for sewing a "patriotic" housekeeping uniform.
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Mar 21, 07
In a statement made on October 22, 1918, John Deml, a farmer in Outagamie County, a heavily German and Scandinavian area of Wisconsin, described the nativist mob that had visited him two days earlier.
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Treaty of Versailles
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Lesson Plans
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General and Unsorted
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Treaty of Versailles
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Mar 21, 07
Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and was critical in establishing a general opinion that the Versailles Treaty was a "Carthaginian peace". It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations. The perception by much of the British public that Germany had been treated unfairly in turn was a crucial factor in public support for appeasement.
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