1630-1763 |
The Colonial Period
King Philip’s War. Bacon’s Rebellion. Mayflower Compact. Marquette and Joliet. Plymouth Colony. Massachusetts Bay Colony.Benjamin Franklin. French and Indian War. |
1763-1783 |
Revolutionary America
Stamp Act. Boston Massacre. Boston Tea Party. 1st Continental Congress. Common Sense. American Revolution. 2nd Continental Congress. Paul Revere’s Ride. War of Independence. Yorktown. |
1783-1815 |
The Young Republic
Articles of Confederation. Constitutional Convention. Washington.Hamilton and Federalists. Jefferson and Republicans. Whiskey Rebellion. Battle of Fallen Timbers. Alien and Sedition Acts. Louisiana Purchase. Lewis and Clark. War of 1812. |
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1815-1860 |
Expansion, Political Reform, and Turmoil
Era of Good Feelings. First Industrial Revolution. Henry Clay‘s Missouri Compromise. Monroe Doctrine. Andrew Jackson Nat Turner Rebellion. Panic of 1837. Manifest Destiny. The Alamo.Frederick Douglass. California Gold Rush. Compromise of 1850. Dred Scott. Lincoln-Douglas Debates. |
1830-1876 |
Sectional Controversy, War, and Reconstruction
Slavery. Underground Railroad. Bleeding Kansas. Abraham Lincoln. Civil War. Battle of Gettysburg. Radical Republicans. Reconstruction. Little Big Horn. |
1871-1914 |
Second Industrial Revolution
Railroad Era. Thomas Edison. Henry Ford. George Westinghouse.Labor Movement. Sherman Antitrust Act. Spanish-American War. |
1880-1920 |
Political Reform II
Populist Party. Jim Crow Laws. Progressive (Bull Moose) PartyTheodore Roosevelt. William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson. |
1914-1933 |
War, Prosperity, and Depression
Panama Canal. World War I. Black Sox Scandal. Harding Scandals.Charles Lindbergh. Stock Market Crash. Babe Ruth. Amelia Earhart. |
1933-1945 |
The New Deal and World War II
Franklin D. Roosevelt. First One Hundred Days. Albert Einstein. Manhattan Project. J. Edgar Hoover. War in Europe. Adolph Hitler. The Holocaust. Pearl Harbor. World War II. War in the Pacific. Rosie the Riveter. Harry S Truman and the Atomic Bomb. |
1945-1960 |
Postwar America
Marshall Plan. Berlin Airlift. Korean War. Senator Joseph McCarthy.Cold War. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Brown v. Board of Education. Rosa Parks. Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. |
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