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