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The content for the AP U.S. History exam is organized into nine periods. This isn\u2019t strictly chronological, as you\u2019ll notice some of the time periods overlap. Instead, the periodization has both chronological and thematic organization. Read on for an overview of the APUSH periods. <\/p>\n
This period is basically everything that happened prior to the arrival of the English. The start of the period, 1491 (the year before Christopher Columbus \u201csailed the ocean blue\u201d), is really shorthand for \u201cbefore the Europeans showed up.\u201d The end of the period is 1607, the year that the English landed in Jamestown, Virginia and founded the first permanent English settlement in the New World. In a nutshell, this period focuses on Native Americans and on early, non-English exploration of the New World, especially that of the Spanish. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
The next period is largely focused on European (including the British this time) exploration and settlement. The beginning date is the founding of Jamestown, as discussed above. The end date is the start of the French and Indian War, which totally changed the game in the British colonies. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
Here we start to focus exclusively on the British colonies that will turn into the United States. The starting year, 1754, is the beginning of the French and Indian War. This marked the end of salutary neglect and the beginning of growing tensions between the colonies and Great Britain. The period takes you through the tumultuous revolution and its aftermath to the year 1800, in which the new democracy is solidified by its first official peaceful transfer of power between two political parties. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
The U.S. was growing in territory and strength, but faced internal threats to its stability. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
Period 5 centers on the Civil War\u2014its causes, events, and aftermath. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
This is the Gilded Age, where America was bright and shiny on the outside (industrial growth, wealth, railroads, big cities, population growth) and dark and grimy underneath (terrible working conditions, socioeconomic stratification, racism, political corruption). <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
This period sees the United States starting to get pulled onto the world stage in a big way for the first time. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as one of two major world powers. The Cold War dominated foreign policy, while domestically, the U.S. went through many social changes. <\/p>\n
The big concepts for this period are: <\/p>\n
This is the modern, post-Cold War era. <\/p>\n
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Read on for an overview of the nine APUSH periods, which have both chronological and thematic organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[276],"ppma_author":[24937],"class_list":["post-10103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ap","tag-apush"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n