HISTORICAL PERIODS OF THE UNITED STATES

1) 50,000 BC - 1754: BEGINNINGS (Text: Chapter 1-5; pages 2-105)

PRE-COLUMBIAN (50,000 BC-1492)

DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION (1492-1565,1607)

SPAIN'S NEW WORLD EMPIRE (1565...)

COLONIAL AMERICA (1650 - 1775)

FIRST GREAT AWAKENING (1730'S->)


2) 1754 - 1783: ROAD TO LIBERTY (Text: Chapters 6-8; pages 106-163)

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754 - 1763)

ROAD TO REVOLUTION (1763 - 1775)

REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775 - 1783)


3) 1783 - 1824: THE NEW NATION (Text: Chapters 9-12; pages 164-255)

GOVERNMENT UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (1781 - 1789)

CONSTITUTION (1787 - 1789)

FEDERALIST ERA (1789 - 1801)

AGE OF JEFFERSON (1801 - 1825)

WAR OF 1812 (1812 - 1814)


4) 1825 - 1849: AGE OF JACKSON (Text: Chapters 13-17; pages 256-369)

EARLY INDUSTRIALIZATION; WESTWARD EXPANSION; SECOND GREAT AWAKENING

WAR OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE (1836)

MANIFEST DESTINY

WAR WITH MEXICO (1846-1848)


5) 1849 - 1877: A HOUSE DIVIDED (Text: Chapters 18-22; pages 390-499)

MEXICAN WAR (1846-1848)

COTTON KINGDOM; SECTIONALISM, ROAD TO WAR

CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)

RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)

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6) 1877 - 1890: ECONOMIC EXPANSION (Text: Chapters 23-26; pages 500-622)

GILDED AGE

INDUSTRY, LABOR, AND BIG BUSINESS

THE FRONTIER SAGA

AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

MONEY CRISIS AND THE CROSS OF GOLD


7) 1890 - 1913: AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE (Text: Ch. 27-28; pages 623-663)

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (1898)


8) 1901 - 1939: REFORM AND WAR (Text: Chapters 29-31; pages 664-727)

PROGRESSIVISM (1901-1916)

WILSON AND WORLD WAR I


9) 1939 - 1952: BOOM, BUST, WAR REVISITED (Text: Ch. 32-36; pages 728-855)

ROARING TWENTIES

THE GREAT DEPRESSION - FDR AND THE NEW DEAL

WORLD WAR II


10) 1953 - 1961: TENSION (Text: Chapters 37-38; pages 856-915)

TRUMAN AND THE POST-WAR ERA

BEGINNINGS OF THE COLD WAR (1945-1952)

AGE OF CONSENSUS (1953-1961)

11) 1969 - 1981: WAR AND PROTEST (Text: Chapters 39-40; pages 916-975)

WAR IN VIETNAM (1950-1975)

SIXTIES REVOLUTIONS

TURMOIL OF THE SEVENTIES (1969 - 1981)

12) 1981 - NOW: MODERN AMERICA (Text: Chapters 41-42; pages 976-1034)

THE NEW CONSERVATISM (1981 - 1993)

CLINTON, GEORGE W. BUSH (2001- )