Concept Outline

Related Thematic
Learning Objectives
(Focus of Exam Questions)
WXT-2.0: Explain how
patterns of exchange, markets,
and private enterprise have
developed, and analyze
ways that governments have
responded to economic issues.
WXT-3.0: Analyze how
technological innovation has
affected economic development
and society. Model
Key Concept 7.1 — Growth expanded opportunity, while economic
instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic
system.
I. The United States continued its transition from a rural, agricultural
economy to an urban, industrial economy led by large companies.
A. New technologies and
manufacturing techniques
helped focus the U.S.
Assembly line Ford
economy on the production
of consumer goods,
Radio Dishwashers Refriderators
contributing to improved
standards of living, greater
T personal mobility, and better

MIG-2.0: Analyze causes of Ford communications systems.

Telephones
internal migration and patternsNewYork
B. By 1920, a majority of the
of settlement in what would Chicago U.S. population lived in
become the United States, andDetriot urban centers, which offered
explain how migration has new economic opportunities
affected American life. to
Right for women, international
vote migrants, and internal
migrants.
TheGreatMigration
C. Episodes of credit and
RooseveltPanic market instability in the early

of 1407
20th century, in particular

Moreefficient
the Great Depression, led to
calls for a stronger financial
regulatory system. FederalReserve Act safe ▲
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INDIVIDUALS, EVENTS, TOPICS, OR SOURCES FOR
Key Concept 7.1
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Related Thematic
Learning Objectives
(Focus of Exam Questions)
POL-1.0: Explain how and
why political ideas, beliefs,
institutions, party systems, and
alignments have developed and
changed.
POL-3.0: Explain how different
beliefs about the federal
government’s role in U.S. social
and economic life have affected
political debates and policies.
Paytonotfarm A
WXT-1.0: Explain how different
labor systems developed in
North America and the United
States, and explain their
effects on workers’ lives and
U.S. society.
WXT-2.0: Explain how
patterns of exchange, markets,
and private enterprise have
developed, and analyze
ways that governments have
responded to economic issues.
Period 7: 1890–1945
Key Concept 7.1
AP United States History Course and Exam Description
Concept Outline
Key Concept 7.1 — Growth expanded opportunity, while economic
instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic
system.
III. During the 1930s, policymakers responded to the mass unemployment
and social upheavals of the Great Depression by transforming the U.S.
into a limited welfare state, redefining the goals and ideas of modern
American liberalism.
Governmentpays for health
A. Franklin Roosevelt’s New
Deal attempted to end the
Great Depression by using
government power to provide
CC relief to the poor, stimulate
FDIC
recovery, and reform the Federal Deposit InsuranceAgency
American economy.
B. Radical, union, and Townsend SocialSecurity
populist movements pushed
Roosevelt toward more
extensive efforts to change
the American economic
system, while conservatives
in Congress and the Supreme NRA FirstAAA
Court sought to limit the
New Deal’s scope.
courtpacks counteract
FDR to
C. Although the New Deal did
Lower unemploymentto151
not end the Depression, it
left a legacy of reforms and Social Security FDIC
regulatory agencies and
fostered a long-term political
realignment in which many
ethnic groups, African
Americans, and working- Got relief checks
class communities identified
with the Democratic Party. 1930s 1980s ▲
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INDIVIDUALS, EVENTS, TOPICS, OR SOURCES FOR
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Related Thematic Key Concept 7.2 — Innovations in communications and technology

Learning Objectives contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes
(Focus of Exam Questions) occurred in internal and international migration patterns.
CUL-4.0: Explain how II. Economic pressures, global events, and political developments caused
different group identities, sharp variations in the numbers, sources, and experiences of both
including racial, ethnic, international and internal migrants.
class, and regional identities,
A. Immigration from Europe
have emerged and changed
reached its peak in the years
over time.
before World War I. During
MIG-1.0: Explain the causes and after World War I,
of migration to colonial Dramaticallynativist campaigns against
North America and, later, thereduced some ethnic groups led to
United States, and analyze the passage of quotas that Onlycertainamountof immigrants
immigration’s effects on restricted immigration,
particularly from southern
cancomefromcountries
U.S. society.
Chinese and eastern Europe, and German Italy
MIG-2.0: Analyze causes of
Exclusionincreased barriers to Asian
internal migration and patterns Gentlemen's Agreement
continued immigration.
of settlement in what would
become the United States, and B. The increased demand for
explain how migration has war production and labor VictoryGarden
affected American life. duringeWorld War I and World
War II and the economic
difficulties of the 1930s led
many Americans to migrate
to urban centers in search of
GreatMigration of
economic opportunities. blacksbecauselaborstrikes
C. In a Great Migration during
and after World War I,
African Americans escaping
segregation, racial violence,

ont and limited economic

segregation opportunity in the South
moved to the North and
West, where they found
strikebreakers
e
new opportunities but still

Chicagoriots
encountered discrimination.

D. Migration to the United States

from Mexico and elsewhere
in the Western Hemisphere Because Americanwas
Pancho Villa
increased, in spite of
contradictory government
becoming great
policies toward Mexican

fMexico
terminals
and
immigration. ▲
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in TEACHER-SELECTED EXAMPLES OF HISTORICAL
INDIVIDUALS, EVENTS, TOPICS, OR SOURCES FOR
Key Concept 7.2
NewMexico STUDENTS TO EXAMINE THE KEY CONCEPT IN DEPTH

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