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Period 1: 1491-1607

Spanish colonization

• 1491: last year of pre-columbian Native Americans

Period 2: 1607-1754

English colonization

• 1607: first permanent English settlement founded, Jamestown

• 1660s: Navigation Acts

• 1676: Bacon’s Rebellion

Period 3: 1754-1800

Causes and effects of the American Revolution

• 1730s-1740s: Great Awakening

• 1754-1763: French and Indian War

• 1775-1783: American Revolution

• 1776: Declaration of Independence

• 1787: Constitution written

• 1799: Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Period 4: 1800-1848

Young Republic, Jacksonian era, Market Revolution

• 1800: Revolution of 1800

• 1803: Louisiana Purchase

• 1819: McCulloch v. Maryland

• 1828: Election of Andrew Jackson

• 1832: Nullification Crisis

• 1790’s-1840’s: Second Great Awakening

• 1848: Seneca Falls Convention

• 1790’s-1860’s: Market Revolution

Period 5: 1844-1877

Causes and effects of the Civil War 

• 1844: Election of President Polk (manifest destiny platform)

• 1846-1848: Mexican-American War

• 1850: Compromise of 1850

• 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 1861-1865: Civil War

• 1865-1877: Reconstruction

• 1877: Compromise of 1877

• Amendments 13-15 (see at the end of the document)

Period 6: 1865-1898

Gilded Age

• 1865-1877: Reconstruction

• 1865-1890’s: Gilded Age

• 1870’s-1920’s: Second Industrial Revolution

• 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act

• 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee

• 1890: End of the open frontier

• 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson

Period 7: 1890-1945

Progressive era, imperialism, WWI, roaring 20s, great depression, WWII

• 1890’s-1914: Progressive Era

• 1898: Spanish-American War

• 1899-1902: Philippine-American War

• 1914-1918: World War I

• 1917: U.S. entered World War I

• 1920-1929: Roaring 20’s

• 1929: Black Tuesday, stock market crashed

• 1929-1939: Great Depression

• 1939-1945: World War II

• 1941: Pearl Harbor, U.S. entered WWII

Period 8: 1945-1980

Cold War and civil rights 

• 1945-1991: Cold War 

• 1950-1953: Korean War 

• 1957: Sputnik launch, beginning of the space race 

• 1955-1975: Vietnam War 

• 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination 

• 1969: Lunar landing, end of the space race 

Period 9: 1980-present

Current Events 

• 1980: Election of Ronald Reagan 

• 1990-1991: Persian Gulf War 

• 2001: September 11th terrorist attacks 

• 2001-2021: War in Afghanistan 

• 2003-2011: Iraq War

Amendments

• 13th: abolition of slavery 

• 14th: guarantees citizenship to those born in the U.S. and equality for all citizens 

• 15th: all men can vote 

• 16th: graduated income tax 

• 17th: direct election of senators 

• 18th: prohibition 

• 19th: all women can vote 

• 24th: elimination of the poll tax 

• 26th: lowered voting age to 18

Free citizens vote, in comes senators with wine and women