APUSH Evidence

Period 1 (1491-1607)

Columbian Exchange: environment + disease + economic change (connected global system)

Encomienda System: forced labor + hierarchy

Jamestown Settlement: profit motive + survival (diseases and lack of food)

Period 2 (1607-1754)

Bacon’s Rebellion: class conflict = rise of slavery

First Great Awakening: unity + challenge authority (prioritized personal spirituality rather than established church rules)

Salem Witch Trials: fear + religion

Period 3 (1754-1800)

French and Indian War: gave Britain more debt = taxation on colonists = colonists revolution

Declaration of Independence: natural rights + break away from Britain

Articles of Confederation: need stronger federal gov

Period 4 (1800-1848)

Market Revolution: industry (factories, machines; wage labor) + transport (roads, canals, railroads) + regions connect (each region had specialty and worked together)

Second Great Awakening: reform movements

Louisiana Purchase: federal power (Jefferson stretched federal authority, Constitution did not explicitly say he could do this) + westward growth

Period 5 (1844-1877)

Manifest Destiny: nationalism + conflict (territorial growth = war, political divisions, displacement)

Civil War: Slavery + federal vs. state (federal has more power than states)

Reconstruction: rights (expanded on paper) + limits of equality (in real life)

Period 6 (1865-1898)

Transcontinental Railroad: industry + west expansion

Gilded Age: inequality (power concentration) + corporations (industry growth)

Dawes Act: assimilation of Natives

Period 7 (1890-1945)

Progressive Era: gov fixes problems (regulating business, protecting people, expanding democracy)

Great Depression: New Deal + gov expands

Word War II: U.S. power (became global superpower, expanded military and political influence)+ economic boost (u.s. turned into leading industrial economy)

Period 8 (1945-1980)

Cold War: containment (contain communism so it would not spread) + fear (driven by nuclear weapons caused global fear)

Civil Rights Movement: rights expansion

Vietnam War: protest + distrust gov

Period 9 (1980-Present)

Reaganomics: tax cuts (economic would grow more with lower taxes) + conservatism

End of Cold War: U.S. global dominance (no Soviet rival, u.s. leadership in military, economic, cultural systems, world shifted to shaped by American power)

War on Terror: security (stronger laws and institutions to prevent attacks) + foreign policy (military intervention and defense against terrorism efforts)