Topic
THESIS: Position statement that addresses CHANGE in / significance of your topic throughout American
history
Pre-Colonial America
1492-1681
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TRENDS:
General statement 
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time period
Late 1400s-- trends
1513 –some pretty specific dates of events
1660s- some more general trends/long term events
1676- specific acts/events/people, etc.
Colonial America
1650-1765
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--ism- defined
term- defined
1700s1713-1774- specific trend in this time period
American Revolution
1765-1783
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1765
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1770s1787- major event- described
Compromise- what it did.
A New Nation
1781-1788
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Launching the New Nation
1789-1816
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1790s- multiple ideas/trends in this decade
1790s- major people/what they did
Act—what it did
Industrial Revolution
1815-1840
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Civil War Era
& Reconstruction
1850-1877
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Major terms: what they are all about—might not be tied to a specific date
it was to enrich the North at their expense)
Western Frontier
1877-1900
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 1892 founding of the __ Party /impact
 1870 –major Supreme Court case/what it did
The Gilded Age
1877-1900
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Some time periods will have a much longer list of events than others. It
depends on your topic.
Progressive Era
1890-1920
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World War I
1914-1920
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Great Depression &
New Deal
1920-1940
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World War II
1931-1945
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FDR:
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Cold War &
Postwar Boom
1945-1960
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TRUMAN:
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 1962: Major book/author & why important
The New Frontier &
The Great Society
1960-1968
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JFK:
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LBJ:
An Age of Limits
1968-1980
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NIXON:
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FORD:
CARTER:
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Conservative Tide
1980-1992
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REAGAN:
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The U.S. Today
1992-2001
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CLINTON:
 election & why it was significant
BUSH: