APUSH Period 7: Progressive Era to WWII

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital on the Potomac River — set between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast to the east — is where Congress signed the Sherman Antitrust Act…

The signing took place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the eastern seaboard of North America along the Potomac River — the continental power that received two…

This event unfolded in Manila Bay, in the Philippines — an archipelago of over 7,000 islands sitting where the western Pacific meets the South China Sea, east of mainland Asia and north of Indonesia…

This conflict was centered on Manila, the capital of the Philippines — an archipelago of over 7,000 islands strung across the western Pacific, southeast of mainland Asia and separated from it by the…

Galveston, Texas sits on a narrow barrier island hugging the northwestern Gulf of Mexico coast — a flat strip of sand barely a few feet above sea level, with open water on all sides. In September…

Washington, D.C., positioned on the Potomac River along North America's mid-Atlantic coast where the Appalachian foothills give way to a coastal plain draining into the Atlantic, was where Congress…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River at the boundary between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Piedmont plateau — exactly the eastern seaboard location the…

Washington, D.C., perched on the Potomac River's tidal reach between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coast, was where President Theodore Roosevelt announced his 1904 addition to the Monroe…

Washington, D.C. — built between the Appalachian foothills and the Atlantic coast on the banks of the Potomac River — became the birthplace of modern consumer protection in 1906. President Theodore…

Chicago, Illinois, in the United States — sitting on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes that form the largest freshwater system on Earth — is where Upton Sinclair…

New York City, perched where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic on the northeastern coast of the United States, was the birthplace of the NAACP in 1909. An interracial group of activists — including…

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital, sits on the flat Atlantic coastal plain of eastern North America, where the Potomac River flows southeast toward Chesapeake Bay and the Appalachian ridges rise…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Chesapeake Bay to the east…

Washington, D.C., perched on the Potomac River where it cuts through the fall line between the Appalachian piedmont and the flat Atlantic coastal plain, became the site of a landmark constitutional…

Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital on the Potomac River's fall line, where the Appalachian highlands drop to the Atlantic coastal plain — was the seat of government where the Seventeenth Amendment…

Yellowstone — a high volcanic plateau straddling the northern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, famed for its geysers, hot springs, and canyons near the continental divide — became the world's first…

Between roughly 1910 and 1930, approximately 1.6 million African Americans left the rural South of the United States and resettled in northern industrial cities — especially Chicago on the…

Columbus, New Mexico sits in the Chihuahuan Desert just three miles north of the US-Mexico border, where the high desert plain stretches east of the Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide. On…

Washington, D.C. sits on the banks of the Potomac River, just upstream from where the river widens into the Chesapeake Bay — the largest estuary on the Atlantic coast of North America. It was here…

The march took place on Fifth Avenue in New York City — on Manhattan, a narrow island where the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic at the northeastern edge of the United States. On July 28, 1917…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard of North America, roughly midway up the Atlantic coast between the Gulf of Mexico and the…

Houston, Texas, sits on a low coastal plain where slow bayous wind southward into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico — one of the largest semi-enclosed seas on Earth, cupped between North America…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Chesapeake Bay to the east…

Washington, D.C., perched on the Atlantic coastal plain where the Potomac River curves southeast toward the Chesapeake Bay, was the seat of a historic legal milestone in January 1919. The Eighteenth…

Harlem, in upper Manhattan, New York City — a long, narrow island pinched between the Hudson River to the west and the East River and Atlantic approaches to the east. In February 1919, the 369th…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, wedged between the Atlantic coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, roughly midway up the…

Washington, D.C. — the United States capital on the Potomac River's western bank, at the edge of the Atlantic coastal plain where the land begins its slow rise toward the Appalachians — was the seat…

This event unfolded in Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River where it cuts through the mid-Atlantic coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains…

Washington, D.C. — the federal capital on the Potomac River's tidal reach, east of the Appalachians on North America's Atlantic coastal plain — exploded into four days of racial violence in July…

This is Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, USA — sitting on Manhattan Island, squeezed between the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east, near the northeastern edge of North…

Washington, D.C., the United States capital, sits where the Potomac River cuts through the mid-Atlantic coastal plain before widening toward Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic — a low-lying, tidal…

Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital on the Potomac River where it drains into Chesapeake Bay along North America's mid-Atlantic coast — hosted a major disarmament conference from November 12, 1921…

Washington, D.C., sits on the Potomac River where the Atlantic coastal plain meets the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains — a city built deliberately between the ocean and the ancient ridge that…

Washington, D.C., sits on the banks of the Potomac River in the eastern coastal plain of North America, where the river flows southeast into the Chesapeake Bay — one of the largest estuaries on the…

New York City, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the Atlantic coast of the northeastern United States, was the stage for the 1923 mail-fraud conviction of Marcus Garvey. Garvey, a Jamaican-born…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard — exactly between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east…

Dayton, Tennessee, sits on the Cumberland Plateau in the Appalachian highlands of the eastern United States — exactly the inland, hilly terrain hinted at in the clue. In 1925, a high school teacher…

New York City, perched on a cluster of islands at the mouth of the Hudson River on North America's northeastern Atlantic coast, was already the continent's busiest port when Warner Bros. released The…

This event took place in Paris, France — the city straddling the Seine River in the heart of northwestern Europe, flanked to the north by the English Channel and to the southeast by the Alps. In…

Chicago, Illinois — a city built where the North American interior prairie meets the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan — was the scene of a brutal gangland killing on February 14, 1929. Seven…

This event unfolded in New York City, USA — a vast metropolis on the northeastern Atlantic seaboard, built where the Hudson River meets one of the world's great natural harbours. In October 1929, the…

Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle of the United States, sits deep in the Great Plains — the broad, flat interior of North America, hemmed in by the Rockies to the west and draining toward the…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, on the Potomac River just east of the Appalachian Mountains — exactly the Atlantic coastal plain the…

Knoxville, Tennessee — right where the Tennessee River winds through the Appalachian foothills in the temperate southeastern interior of the United States — is where the Tennessee Valley Authority…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital sitting on the Potomac River's tidal plain between the Appalachian foothills and the Atlantic coast, was where the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S…

Washington, D.C., sits on the Potomac River where it crosses the Atlantic coastal plain, pressed between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast roughly 100 miles to the east…

This event took place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, with the Appalachian Mountains rising to the west. In 1935…

Washington, D.C. sits at the fall line where the Appalachian foothills give way to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, straddling the Potomac River as it winds toward Chesapeake Bay and the sea. Here in…

Washington, D.C. — built on the low coastal plain where the Potomac River bends toward Chesapeake Bay on the mid-Atlantic seaboard — was the birthplace of one of the New Deal's most ambitious…

Flint, Michigan sits in the heart of the lower peninsula — a thumb of land jutting southward, bounded by Lake Michigan to the west and Lake Huron to the east, deep in the temperate Great Lakes basin…

Washington, D.C. sits on the Potomac River where the Appalachian highlands drop onto the flat Atlantic coastal plain — about 100 miles inland from the sea, at the tidal limit of the river. In…

Washington D.C. sits on the Potomac River just east of the Appalachian Mountains, roughly halfway up the Atlantic seaboard of North America — and in 1939, the steps of the Lincoln Memorial became the…

This is Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii — a volcanic archipelago sitting roughly 2,400 miles from the North American mainland, isolated in the central Pacific Ocean. In December 1941…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River where the Atlantic coastal plain meets the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, draining southeast toward…

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital on the Potomac River's tidal estuary at the eastern foot of the Appalachian Mountains, was where President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act on March 11…

Los Angeles, in the United States, sits on the Pacific coast of North America — the destination hub for a landmark 1942 bilateral agreement between the United States and its southern neighbor…

This event unfolded along the Pacific coast of the United States and at inland sites like Manzanar, a desert camp in California's Owens Valley — east of the Sierra Nevada, the great mountain wall…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the East Coast of North America, but the order signed there in February 1942 targeted the opposite edge of the continent — the Pacific…

Detroit, Michigan sits on the Detroit River — a narrow strait connecting Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie — directly across from Windsor, Canada, making it one of the few places in the United States where…

Los Angeles, California sits in a broad coastal basin where the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains drop toward the Pacific Ocean — the southwestern edge of North America, just north of the…

The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire — tucked into the White Mountains, the highest peaks in the Appalachian range east of the Mississippi — hosted the United Nations Monetary…

This is the Normandy coast of France — a stretch of sandy beaches along the English Channel, directly south across a narrow strip of water from southern England, on the northwestern edge of the…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River on the coastal plain of eastern North America, with the Appalachian Mountains rising to the west and the Atlantic just…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two major cities on the Japanese archipelago, sit on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, facing the East China Sea and the Korean Peninsula across narrow straits — exactly…