APUSH Time Periods

Flashcard 1
Front: Period 1: 1491–1607
Back: Native societies before European contact; early exploration; the Columbian Exchange; beginnings of European colonization.

Flashcard 2
Front: Period 2: 1607–1754
Back: Development of British colonies; regional colonial differences; Atlantic slave trade; early colonial conflicts with Native Americans.

Flashcard 3
Front: Period 3: 1754–1800
Back: Causes and effects of the American Revolution; Articles of Confederation; U.S. Constitution; early national government.

Flashcard 4
Front: Period 4: 1800–1848
Back: Expansion of democracy (Jefferson to Jackson); market revolution; Second Great Awakening; reform movements; westward expansion.

Flashcard 5
Front: Period 5: 1844–1877
Back: Manifest Destiny; sectional tensions; Civil War; Reconstruction and efforts to reunify and integrate the South.

Flashcard 6
Front: Period 6: 1865–1898
Back: Gilded Age; industrialization; rise of big business; labor unions; immigration and urbanization; political corruption.

Flashcard 7
Front: Period 7: 1890–1945
Back: Progressive reforms; U.S. imperialism; WWI and WWII; the Great Depression; New Deal; emergence of the U.S. as a world power.

Flashcard 8
Front: Period 8: 1945–1980
Back: Cold War; civil rights movement; Vietnam War; liberal reform movements; cultural changes of the 1960s–70s.

Flashcard 9
Front: Period 9: 1980–Present
Back: Rise of conservatism (Reagan era); end of the Cold War; globalization; war on terror; political polarization and technological change.