College Board Key Concepts
AP Exam Weight: 10 - 17%
4.1. Contextualizing Period 4
4.2. Rise of Political Parties/Era of Jefferson
4.3. Politics and Regional Interests
4.4. America on the World Stage
4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization
4.6. Market Revolution: Society and Culture
4.7. Expanding Democracy
4.8. Jackson and Federal Power
4.9. Development of American Culture
4.10. Second Great Awakening
4.11. Age of Reform
4.12. African Americans in Early Republic
4.13. Society of the South in Early Republic
4.14. Causation in Period 4
Period 4 Power Point Presentation(s)
The Age of Jefferson
Nationalism & Economic Development
The Age of Jackson
Period 4 Essentials:
Key Concept 4.1: The United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.
Key Concept 4.2: Innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce powerfully accelerated the American economy, precipitating profound changes to U.S. society and to national and regional identities.
Key Concept 4.3: The U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade and expanding its national borders shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
AMSCO Reading Guide(s)
Jefferson Era, 1800 - 1816
National and Economic Development, 1816 - 1848
Sectionalism, 1820 - 1860
The Age of Jackson, 1824 - 1844
Society, Culture and Reform, 1820 - 1860
Period 4 Exam Review Materials
Heimler's History Period 4 Review
Crash Course US History #10
Crash Course US History #11
Crash Course US History #12
Crash Course US History #13
Crash Course US History #14
Crash Course US History #15