APUSH time periods

Period 1491-1607

Main Ideas/Events: Native American societies before European contact; European exploration and colonization; Columbian Exchange.

Period 1607-1754

Main Ideas/Events: Establishment of the British colonies; development of slavery; early forms of colonial self-government; Mercantilism

Period 1754-1800

Main Ideas/Events: The French and Indian War; colonial resistance; the American Revolution; the Articles of Confederation; the U.S. Constitution; the first party system. Ideals of Republicanism

Period 1800-1848

Main Ideas/Events: The Jeffersonian Revolution; the War of 1812; the Market Revolution; the Second Great Awakening; Jacksonian Democracy; Manifest Destiny. Rise of sectionalism based on slavery

Period 1844-1877

Main Ideas/Events: Westward expansion; Mexican American War; the Civil War; Reconstruction; industrialization; the rise of big business; immigration; and the Gilded Age Populist party.

Period 1865-1898

Main Ideas/Events: Reconstruction, Westward Expansion, Industrialization, Gilded Age, Rise of Populism, Immigration, Urbanization, Labor Movements, Rise of Segregation, Dawes Act

Period 1890-1945

Main Ideas/Events: Imperialism, Progressive Era, World War I, World War ll, The Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, The New Deal

Period 1945-1980

Main Ideas/Events: The Cold War, The Civil Rights Movement, The Great Society

Period 1980-2025

Main Ideas/Events: The end of the Cold War, globalization, the War on Terror, and the rise of the Internet and social media.