AP®︎ US History: Topic 7.15 Practice Test
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Topic 7.15
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-7.1.I
What major shift occurred in the U.S. economy during the first half of the 20th century?
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Topic 7.15: Comparison in Period 7
Learning Objective: Unit 7: Learning Objective O
Compare the relative significance of the major events of the first half of the 20th century in shaping American identity.
Review: KC-7.2
Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.
Review: KC-7.2.I
Popular culture grew in influence in U.S. society, even as debates increased over the effects of culture on public values, morals, and American national identity.
Review: KC-7.2.II
Economic pressures, global events, and political developments caused sharp variations in the numbers, sources, and experiences of both international and internal migrants.
Review: KC-7.3
Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.
Review: KC-7.3.I
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, new U.S. territorial ambitions and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific accompanied heightened public debates over America’s role in the world.
Review: KC-7.3.II
World War I and its aftermath intensified ongoing debates about the nation’s role in the world and how best to achieve national security and pursue American interests.
Review: KC-7.3.III
U.S. participation in World War II transformed American society, while the victory of the United States and its allies over the Axis powers vaulted the U.S. into a position of global, political, and military leadership.
Review: KC-7.1
Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.
Review: KC-7.1.I
The United States continued its transition from a rural, agricultural economy to an urban, industrial economy led by large companies.
Review: KC-7.1.II
In the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, Progressives responded to political corruption, economic instability, and social concerns by calling for greater government action and other political and social measures.
Review: KC-7.1.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.
