Timetables of History Test: Monday, May 7th
Directions: This is a test to see if you can correctly match periods of American History with their correct time
frame, and if you can place key events with the year they occurred or within the correct period. It is a matching test
with 10 points each for correctly matching each period to the time frame, 5 points for matching key events with the
year they occurred, and 2 points for matching the key events to the correct time period
.
Period
Time Frame
Age of Exploration
1492-1600
Colonial Period
1607-1763
Revolutionary Period
1763-1789
Federalist Era
1789-1800
Jeffersonian Democracy
1800-1824
Era of Good Feelings
1815-1824
Jacksonian Democracy
1828-1848
Manifest Destiny/Westward
Expansion
1840-1890
Antebellum Period
1793-1860
Civil War
1860-1865
*Across the Period
Key Events
Year
Spanish founded St. Augustine in Florida
1565
Founding of Jamestown
First Africans brought to Jamestown
Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Maryland Toleration Act
William Penn founded Pennsylania
Great Awakening
French & Indian War Began
French & Indian War Ended
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Declaration of Independence
British surrender at Yorktown
Articles of Confederation Created
Constitutional Convention Began
George Washington Took Office
John Adams Elected President
Alien & Sedition Acts
Thomas Jefferson Elected President
Louisiana Purchase
Embargo Act
James Madison Elected President
War of 1812 Ends
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Corrupt Bargain
Erie Canal was Opened
Clay’s American System
Andrew Jackson Elected President
Indian Removal Act
Tippicanoe & Tyler Too
James Polk Elected President
Mexican War
Completion of Transcontinental RR.
Battle of Little Bighorn
Dawes Act
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Eli Whitney Invented the Cotton Gin
Seneca Falls Convention
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry
Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Emancipation Proclamation
1607
1619
1630
1649
1682
1720-40
1754
1763
1763
1765
1770
1773
1776
1781
1781
1787
1789
1796
1798
1800
1803
1807
1808
1815
1820
1823
1824
1825
*
1828
1830
1840
1844
1846-8
1869
1876
1887
1890
1793
1849
1850
1854
1857
1859
1860
1863
Period
Time Frame
Reconstruction
1865-1877
Gilded Age
1868-1901
Populist Movement
1892-1900
Age of Imperialism
1867-1917
Progressive Era
1900-1917
Roaring Twenties
1920-1929
Great Depression
1929-1941
New Deal
1933-1939
World War II
1941-1945
Cold War
1946-1991
Civil Rights Movement
1948-1973
Vietnam War
1965-1973
Rise of Conservatism
1980-Pres.
Key Events
13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Compromise of 1877
Ulysses Grant Elected President
Rise of Big Business
Knights of Labor Formed
Homestead Steel Strike
Plessy v. Ferguson
Omaha Platform
Cross of Gold Speech
U. S. purchase Alaska from Russia
Spanish American War
Wright Brothers Flew the Kitty Hawk
U.S. acquired Panama Canal
America Entered World War I
Theodore Roosevelt became President
Square Deal
N.A.A.C.P. was formed
Muckrakers & Yellow Journalism
19th Amendment Gave Women the Vote
Prohibition
Scopes Monkey Trial
Stock Market Crashed
Dust Bowl
Franklin D. Roosevelt Took Office
Social Security Act was passes
World War II Began in Europe
Pearl Harbor is Bombed
Internment of Japanese Americans
The Atomic Bomb is Dropped on Hiroshima
End of World War II
Berlin Airlift
Korean War
French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK assassinated/LBJ became President
Apollo 11
Richard Nixon visited China
Watergate forced Nixon to Resign
Berlin Wall was torn Down
Fall of the Soviet Union
Executive Order 9981
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Little Rock Crisis
March on Washington
Johnson initiated the Great Society
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Chicano Movement/U.F.W. Boycott
2nd Battle of Wounded Knee
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Bombing of Cambodia/Kent State
U.S. withdrew from Vietnam
Election of Ronald Reagan
Year
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1867
1877
1868
*
1968
1892
1896
1892
1896
1867
1898
1903
1904
1917
1900
*
1909
*
1920
*
1925
1929
*
1933
1935
1939
12/7/1941
*
1945
1945
1948
1950-3
1954
1957
1962
1963
1969
1972
1974
1989
1991
1948
1954
1957
1963
1964
1968
1968-72
1973
1965
1968
1970
1973
1980