APUSH time periods

Period 1

1491-1607

Period 2

1608-1754

Period 3

1754-1800

Period 4

1800-1848

Period 5

1844 - 1877

Period 6

1865-1898

Period 7

1890-1945

Period 8

1945-1980

Period 9

1980-present

Period 1 happenings

- Cahokia

- Spanish colonization (Columbus)

- treat NA rly bad

Period 2 happenings

- English colonizers

- First colonies - Jamestown

- Bacon’s rebellion - 1676

- Metacom’s war - 1675-76

- Enlightenment, Great Awakening(1730s-40s)

- lead-up to the Revolution

Period 3 happenings

- 7 years war

- American Revolution 1775-1783

- Constitution 1787

- building of America(founding fathers, nat't bank, bill of rights etc)

Period 4 happenings

- Jacksonian era

- market revolution and economic growth

- Western expansion/manifest destiny

- Second Great Awakening

- lead up to the civil war

Period 5 happenings

- Civil war

- Reconstruction

- New states (slave and free)

- emergence of KKK

- Irish and German immigration

Period 6 happenings

- 2nd industrial revolution

- Rise of labor movements and labor strikes

- reform movements - labor, feminism, immigrants - settlement houses

- new west/new south

- Gilded Age

Period 7 happenings

- More of the progressive era - ICC, NWA, CCC, SSA, etc

- WWI - 1914-1918

- Spanish American War 1898

- fundamentalists - monkey scopes, KKK

- Prohibition

- Harlem Renaissance

- The Great depression

- WWII

- New Deal

Period 8 happenings

- Cold War

- 1968

- Vietnam War 1955-1975

- McCarthyism

- counterculture

- Civil Rights Movement

- 50s urbanization

- Great Society

Period 9 happenings

- End of cold war

- New tech and Y2K

- Immigration shifts - more from Latin America and Asia

- Cultural and social debates - prison reforms, gay right revolution, abortion, etc

- Persian Gulf War 1990

- Iraq war 2003

- 9/11