1607-1763: The Colonial
Period
-Jamestown, the
Puritans, economy (tobacco
vs. trade), Great Awakening,
French & Indian War
1763-1775: The Road to
Revolution
-Proclamation of 1763, Taxes,
more united colonists (Albany
Plan of Union, Stamp Act
Congress, Continental
Congresses…) Tea Party,
Intolerable Acts, Boston
massacre, Quartering Acts …
1776-1783: The Revolution
-Natural Rights, Effect on
Women, Blacks, Indians,
Republican Motherhood, the
concept of a “Republic”,
French Assistance
1783-1800: Confederation
and the New Republic
-Articles of Confederation
successes and failures,
Compromise in the
Constitution, Washington and
Adams Presidency, Rise of
Political Parties,
1800-1816: The Jeffersonian
Era
-Louisiana Purchase, War
in Tripoli, tensions w/ Britain
and France, Embargo Act, War
of 1812,
1816-1824: The Era of Good
Feelings?:
-Rising Nationalism vs.
Sectionalism, Clay’s American
System, panic of 1817,
Missouri Crisis/Compromise
1820, rising abolitionism,
1824-1840 Age of Jackson:
-Corrupt Bargain, era of
“common man”, bank war,
nullification crisis, Indian
removal, Panic of 1837
1840-1850 Manifest Destiny:
-Texas, Mexican War,
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
gold in California,
1820-1850 Antebellum
Reform
-Second Great Awakening,
Abolitionism, Temperance
Movement, Women’s
Movement, Education Reform,
Asylum Reform. Reforms in
Literature, Art, the economy,
1850-1861 Sectional Crisis
-Wilmot Proviso, Compromise
of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding
Kansas, Ostend Manifesto, Dred
Scott Case, Caning of Sumner,
John Brown’s Raid, LincolnDouglas Debates, Election of
Lincoln (1860)
1861-1865 Civil War
1865-1877 Reconstruction
1877- 1900 The Gilded Age
1880-1914 American
Imperialism
1900-1917 The Progressive
Era
1914-1919 World War I &
Aftermath
1919-1929 The Roaring
Twenties (The Jazz Age)
1929-1940 The Great
Depression
1932-1945 Road to War and
World War II
1945-1990 The Cold War
1945-1964 The Postwar
Boom & The Fifties
1964-1970 The Stormy
Sixties
1970-1980 The Stalemated
Seventies
1980-1990 The Conservative
Resurgence