Review Episode 1 (Periods 1-4)

Here’s a 100-word intro version:Today’s episode moves fast through APUSH Units 1–4, tracing the making of America from Indigenous North America to the edge of sectional crisis. We begin with diverse Native societies, European contact, the Columbian Exchange, conquest, and slavery’s Atlantic roots. Then we follow colonial regions as they develop distinct economies, labor systems, and identities. From there, imperial conflict leads to revolution, independence, the Constitution, and the first party system. Finally, Unit 4 explores Jeffersonian expansion, the Market Revolution, Jacksonian democracy, reform, Manifest Destiny, and the growing slavery crisis. The big theme: American freedom expanded unevenly and violently.