Gallery 2 · APUSH Period 2
1607–1754
Regional development, labor systems, belief, empire, Native relations, slavery, migration, and the Atlantic world.
How to use this gallery
Exhibits are independent experiences connected by this period's larger historical problems. You do not need to complete them in order. APUSH period labels provide chronology; the exhibits themselves are organized around interpretation, evidence, and argument.
Open Collection
Investigate how environment, migration, economic purpose, labor systems, belief, Native relations, and the Atlantic world combined to produce distinct regional societies under the same British crown.
Enter exhibit →Why did racial, hereditary slavery expand—and why did the change unfold differently across regions? Investigate recruitment promises, freedom claims, laws, Bacon’s Declaration, and regional evidence.
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