1. APUSH Major Primary Sources Period 7 (1890-1945)
Includes paintings, engravings, photographs, political cartoons, speeches, documents with hyperlinks for additional information and video links.
Also includes secondary source maps, charts, and historical depictions.
Compiled by John Burkowski Jr.
Academy for Advanced Academics

2. Excerpt from Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis Josiah Strong 1885

3. Excerpt from Our Blundering Foreign Policy Henry Cabot Lodge 1895

4. Excerpt from The Interest of America in Sea Power Alfred T. Mahan 1897

5. Excerpt from March of the Flag Speech Albert Beveridge 1898
“The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer, The rule of liberty that all just government derives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government We govern the Indians without their consent, we govern our territories without their consent, we govern our children without their consent. How do they know what our government would be without their consent? Would not the people of the Philippines prefer the just, humane, civilizing government of this Republic to the savage, bloody rule of pillage and extortion from which we have rescued them?”

6. White Man’s Burden Rudyard Kipling 1899

7. Excerpt from Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League 1899

8. “Well, I Hardly Know Which To Take First!” Boston Globe 1898

9. Map of American Empire – 1900

10. The Second Open Door Note John Hay July 3, 1900

11. Excerpt from Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Theodore Roosevelt 1904
“It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the Western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare. All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power. If every country washed by the Caribbean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which with the aid of the Platt amendment Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all question of interference by this Nation with their affairs would be at an end. Our interests and those of our southern neighbors are in reality identical. They have great natural riches, and if within their borders the reign of law and justice obtains, prosperity is sure to come to them. While they thus obey the primary laws of civilized society they may rest assured that they will be treated by us in a spirit of cordial and helpful sympathy. We would interfere with them only in the last resort, and then only if it became evident that their inability or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had violated the rights of the United States or had invited foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations. It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence can not be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. …”

12. It’s “Up To” Them. Uncle Sam (to Filipinos
It’s “Up To” Them. Uncle Sam (to Filipinos.)—You can take your choice;- I have plenty of both! Puck Magazine November 20, 1901

13. His 128TH Birthday. “Gee, But This is an Awful Stretch.” 1904

14. Electoral Map: 1900

15. Electoral Map: 1904

16. Bad Trusts Clifford Berryman

17. Excerpt from The Man with the Muck-Rake Speech Theodore Roosevelt 1906

18. A Practical Forester Pioneer Press 1908

19. Photograph by Lewis Hine 1909

20. Electoral Map: 1908

21. Excerpt from New Nationalism Speech Theodore Roosevelt 1910

22. Excerpt from The New Freedom Woodrow Wilson 1913

23. Progressive Party Platform 1912

24. Electoral Map: 1912

25. Priming Clifford Kennedy Berryman 1914

26. Electoral Map: 1916

27. Annual Leaflet National Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1902

28. The Way We Become Senator Nowadays Charles Taylor 1890

29. Petition Against Women Suffrage Women of Lorain County 1870

30. Excerpt from Speech After Arrest Susan B. Anthony 1873

31. 1918

32. Excerpt from War Message to Congress Woodrow Wilson 1917

33. Excerpt from Speech in U.S. Senate George Norris (R-NE) 1917

34. The Revolt Against War Jane Addams 1915

35. I Want You for U.S. Army: Nearest Recruiting Station 1917

36. 1918

37. Excerpt from “Fourteen Points” Message Woodrow Wilson 1918

38. Majority Opinion – Schenck v. United States 1919

39. Put Them Out and Keep Them Out 1919

40. Electoral Map: 1920

41. Electoral Map: 1924

42. Excerpt from Babbit Sinclair Lewis 1922

43. Brooklyn Bridge Joseph Stella 1919-1920

44. The Only Way to Handle It 1921

45. Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration 1924

46. “For the Good of America” NAACP 1926

47. Map of African American Migration – 1910-1920

48. Excerpt from Harper’s James Weldon Johnson 1928

49. “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” Hiram W. Evans 1926

50. New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A
New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, Watching Agents Pour Liquor Into Sewer Following a Raid During the Height of Prohibition c. 1921

51. Excerpt from Woman and the New Race Margaret Sanger 1920

52. Excerpt from Harper’s Monthly Stephen Ewing 1928

53. Antievolution Books On Sale in Dayton, Tennessee During the Scopes Trial 1925

54. Electoral Map: 1928

55. Electoral Map: 1932

56. First Inaugural Address Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 Video

57. Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange 1936

58. Approaching Dust Storm in Middle West Frank Conard 1935-1936

60. Excerpt from Share Our Wealth Speech in U. S
Excerpt from Share Our Wealth Speech in U.S. Senate Senator Huey Long February 5, 1934
“To share our wealth by providing for every deserving family to have one third of the average wealth would mean that, at the worst, such a family could have a fairly comfortable home, an automobile, and a radio, with other reasonable home conveniences, and a place to educate their children… There is nothing wrong with the United States. We have more food than we can eat. We have more clothes and things out of which to make clothes than we can wear. We have more houses and lands than the whole 120 million can use if they all had good homes. So what is the trouble? Nothing except that a handful of men have everything and the balance of the people have nothing if their debts were paid. There should be every man a king in this land flowing with milk and honey instead of lords of finance at the top and slaves and peasants at the bottom... Motto: "Every man a king" conveys the great plan of God and of the Declaration of Independence, which said: "All men are created equal." It conveys that no one man is the lord of another, but that from the head to the foot of every man is carried his sovereignty.”

61. Electoral Map: 1936

62. The Spirit of ‘

64. Quarantine Speech Franklin D. Roosevelt 1937

65. Electoral Map: 1940

66. Fireside Chat: “Arsenal of Democracy” Franklin D
Fireside Chat: “Arsenal of Democracy” Franklin D. Roosevelt December 29, 1940

67. Freedom from Want Norman Rockwell 1943

68. The Old Man of the Sea Theodor Geisel 1941

69. Excerpt from America First Speech Charles Lindbergh 1941

70. Japanese Internment Broadside 1942

71. By J. Howard Miller 1943

72. Electoral Map: 1944