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Historical Periods Overview

Pre-Colonial Period

• Time Frame: Before 1492

  Colonial Period

• 1607-1776

• Salutary Neglect (1713-1763)

French and Indian War

• Time Frame: 1756-1763

• Key Focus: Conflict between Britain and France in North America, impacting colonial relations and leading to British debt.

Revolutionary War Era

• Time Frame: 1763-1783

• Key Focus: Tensions between British authorities and American colonists leading to the war for independence.

Critical Period

• Time Frame: Articles of Confederation (1783-1789)

• Key Issues: Challenges in governing, financial distress, political instability under the Articles.

Federalist Era

• Time Frame: 1789-1801

• Key Focus: Establishment of a stronger federal government, adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Jeffersonian Democracy

• Time Frame: 1800-1824

• Key Focus: Policies under Thomas Jefferson and the promotion of agrarianism, the Louisiana Purchase.

War of 1812

• Time Frame: 1812-1815

• Key Focus: Conflict between the US and Britain, national identity, and growth of US manufacturing.

Era of Good Feelings

• Time Frame: 1816-1824

• Key Focus: National unity following the War of 1812, but also the emergence of new political disagreements.

Jacksonian Democracy

• Time Frame: 1828-1848

• Key Focus: Expanding suffrage, the role of the common man in politics, and controversial policies like the Indian Removal Act.

Manifest Destiny

• Time Frame: 1840

• Key Focus: Belief in the expansion of the US across the American continents, impacting indigenous populations.

Mexican War

• Time Frame: 1846-1848

• Key Focus: Conflict resulting from US annexation of Texas and aspirations for California, leading to increased sectional tensions.

American Society (1790-1860)

• Time Frame: 1790-1860

• Key Focus: Social, economic, and cultural developments that shaped the growing tensions between North and South.

Road to Civil War

• Time Frame: 1848-1860

• Key Focus: Growing sectional divisions due to issues such as slavery, territorial expansion, and states' rights.

Civil War

• Time Frame: 1861-1865

• Key Focus: The conflict between the Northern states (Union) and Southern states (Confederacy) over slavery and union.

Reconstruction

• Time Frame: 1865-1877

• Key Focus: Rebuilding the South after the Civil War, integrating freed slaves into society, and establishing civil rights.

Gilded Age

• Time Frame: 1865-1900

• Key Focus: Rapid economic growth, industrialization, and social upheavals alongside political corruption.