APUSH Turning Points...

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1491-1607

Period 1 time period

Year before Columbus' journey; diverse and advanced Native American tribes; Columbian Exchange to come

Period 1 turning point—1491:

1607-1754

Period 2 time period

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia; workers in Virginia are treated like indentured servants, but quickly become slaves; Bacon's Rebellion increases slavery

Period 2 turning point—1607

1754-1800

Period 3 time period

Seven Years War/French and Indian War; loss of French power in the colonies; Britain gains influence and places harsh laws on colonies

Period 3 turning point—1754:

Proclamation of 1763; colonists can't go west of the Appalachians (they still do)

Period 3 turning point—1763:

Declaration of Independence; Common Sense pamphlet changes colonists' minds

Period 3 turning point—1776:

U.S. Constitution; George Washington is elected as first president

Period 3 turning point—1789:

1800-1848

Period 4 time period

Revolution of 1800; power shifts from Federalists to Dem Reps, but it's peaceful

Period 4 turning point— 1800:

Louisiana Purchase; doubles the size of the US; removes foreign presence; Jefferson passes it as a treaty with France

Period 4 turning point— 1803:

Monroe Doctrine; sets the tone that the US is the police power of the Western Hemisphere

Period 4 turning point—1823:

Seneca Falls Convention; beginning of women's rights movement; Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (we gain Mexican-Cession land)

Period 4 turning point—1848:

1844-1877

Period 5 time period

Presidential election of 1844; James K Polk is elected; manifest destiny

Period 5 turning point—1844:

Civil War; Union is preserved and slavery will be abolished

Period 5 turning point—1861**:

Civil War ends; Lincoln is assassinated; Reconstruction begins; Freedmen's Bureau; 13, 14, 15 amendments

Period 5 turning point—1865:

Reconstruction Bones. Compromise of 1877; Hayes is elected and promises to end reconstruction; Jim Crow laws; segregation; military withdrawn from the south.

Period 5 turning point—1877:

1865-1898

Period 6 time period

Spanish-American War; US gets Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico; Cuban independence (US protectorate); US imperialism (expansion of aggregation of territories outside the country)

Period 6 turning point—1898:

1890-1945

Period 7 time period

Closing of the frontier; no more land to conquer/explore

Period 7 turning point—1890:

WWI; Zimmerman telegraph; sinking of the Lusitania

Period 7 turning point—1914:

Treaty of Versailles; ended WWI

Period 7 turning point—1919:

Great Depression; stock market crash (black Tuesday); New Deal programs; post war economy

Period 7 turning point—1929:

Pearl Harbor; attack on Hawaiian naval base by Japan; US enters WWII

Period 7 turning point—1941:

1945-1980

Period 8 time period

WWII ends; Japan surrenders; Cold War incoming

Period 8 turning point—1945:

Brown vs Board of Education; said segregation was unconstitutional; Army-McCarthy hearings (no more McCarthyism—caught fabricating materials as evidence)

Period 8 turning point—1954:

U-2 spy plane; shot down by Soviet Union; growing tensions between USSR and US; Cold War

Period 8 turning point—1960:

Civil Rights Act of 1964; prohibited segregation and discrimination

Period 8 turning point—1964:

Assassination of MLK; sparked protests and riots

Period 8 turning point—1968:

Paris Peace Accords; treaty signed to end US involvement in Vietnam War

Period 8 turning point—1973

1980-2015

Period 9 time period

Election of 1980; Ronald Reagan elected; milestone for conservative movement (new right); Reaganomics; Iran-Contra Affairs

Period 9 turning point—1980:

Bill Clinton impeachment; Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan

Period 9 turning point—1998:

9/11; terrorist attack on World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania farmland; US invades Iraq

Period 9 turning point—2001: