1607-1763: the colonial period -jamestown, the puritans, economy (tobacco vs. trade), great...
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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, etc.
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, Lincoln-Douglas 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