Key Eras

0-1492

Pre-Columbian Era (NA Cultures & products)

1492-1607

Pre-English Colonial Era

1607-1754

Colonial Era

1754-1763

French & Indian War

1767-1787

Revolutionary War/Critical period

1776

Declaration of Indepedence

1783

Treaty of Paris

1787-1800

Early Constitutional era

1800-1848

Forming of American Identity

1816-1828

Era of Good Feelings

1820-1860

Ante-Bellum Era

1848-1877

Civil war Era (Causes, CW, Resconstruction)

1860-1877

Reconstruction

1865-1900(ish)

Settling of the West & Gilded Age

1877-1914

Progressive Era

1920s

Go-Go

1929-1941

Great Deppression

1900-1945

Imperialist Era

1945-1987

Cold War

1945-1952

Post War Era

1954-1970s

Civil Rights Era

1950s

Industrialization/Suburbanization (Link to 20s)

1960s

Protests/Veitnam

1970s

Economic Struggles/ Anti-protest Blackness

1980-1992

Conservative Era (Age of Reagan)