Group Projects - Concept 7: US Becomes a World power:
Group A: “How and why did the US become a “World Power” in the late 19th and early 20th century?”
Your presentation should be sure to include the issues involved in the trade, imperialism, Mexican Revolution, the Spanish
American War, and Hawaii.
imperialism Theodore Roosevelt “Open Door” to Asia
hegemony Rough Riders Roosevelt Corollary
Queen Liliuokalani San Juan Hill Dollar Diplomacy
Yellow Journalism Philippine War Panama Canal
Yellow Kid Platt Amendment Poncho Villa
“A splendid little war” Emilio Aguinaldo General John Pershing
Admiral Dewey Boxer Rebellion Big Stick
Group B: What social changes were taking place in the US in the late 19th and early 20th century?
Include women’s suffrage, alcohol, children’s issues, public welfare, racial issues, and pure food and drug.
WCTU Social Gospel Public Health
Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Darwinism
NAACP women’s suffrage Land Grant colleges
18th Amendment progressivism public education
19th Amendment National Parks eugenics
muckrakers John Muir Upton Sinclair
Group C: “How did early industrialists and invention change US History?”
Your presentation should include positive and negative effects. Be sure to discuss the following:
John D. Rockefeller “trust” laissez faire
Haymarket Riots “self made man” Robber Barons
Alexander Graham Bell capitalism Taft-Hartley Act
J.P. Morgan Cornelius Vanderbilt Bisbee Deportation
Henry Ford Social Darwinism Boss Tweed
Henry Bessemer Gospel of Wealth Political Machine
Orville Wright Horatio Alger Sherman Anit Trust Act
Thomas Edison monopoly Gold standard
Taylorism Ellis Island Patronage
Model T Knights of Labor Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – 1911
limited liability corporation AFL W.E.B. Du Bois
Andrew Carnegie Homestead Strike Eugene Debs
Gustavus Swift Eugene Debs
horizontal and vertical integration Pullman Strike
Group D: “What were the causes of the Great War and why did the US enter the Great War in Europe in 1917?”
Woodrow Wilson blockade Western Front
Militarism Central Powers Eastern Front
Triple Alliance “he kept us out of war” Allied Powers
Triple Entente Gallipoli “Powder Keg of Europe”
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Verdun Kaiser Wilhelm
Nationalism Ottoman Empire Nationalism
Otto Von Bismarck Schlieffen Plan November 11, 191
Sarajevo Treaty of Versailles
Zimmerman Note
Group E: “What were some of the tactics and technologies of the Great War? How did war change?
Lusitania Somme Barbed wire
Air power Verdun Battleship
Submarines “over the top” Total War
Machine gun Trench warfare
Poison gas No-man’s land
Group F: How did the results of the Great War change the world? Include issues in Europe, the Rise of Fascism, the
Middle East, communism in the Soviet Union, and issues that affect the US.
Soviet Union Communism W. Wilson 14 Points
Treaty of Versailles Total War Stalin Hitler
Mussolini Rise of Fascism “The November Criminals