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4395816460Albany Plan of UnionBenjamin Franklin; Plan to unite Colonies; Post-7-years-war; 1754; End of period 2/start of period 3;0
4395837466Period 1Discovery and Contact Era; Contact, Commerce, and Competing philosophies; 1591-1607; Before Columbus to founding of Jamestown.1
4395870637Columbian ExchangePeriod 1; Slaves, food, and ideas etc. over Atlantic; Columbus landed 1492;2
4395921882Period 2Colonial Era; Gold, God, Glory; 1607-1754; Jamestown to just before Revolutionary War; Britain Hand's Off approach to colonies as it fought wars3
4395946584European Colonial Holdings in AmericaEnglish: Massachusetts - Virginia; Spain: Cali. + Southwest; French: Louisiana + Canada; Dutch: New Amsterdam(New York) - Period 24
4395982411First Great AwakeningPeriod 2; Religious Revival in Americas;5
4395991310EnlightenmentPeriod 2; Started in Europe, moved to America.6
4396033730Period 3Revolutionary Era; 1754-1800; Conflict, Nation-building, and expansion; Revolutionary War; Federalists v. Antifederalists7
4396249647FederalistsPeriod 3, for Constitution8
4396252026Anti-FederalistsPeriod 3, against Constitution9
4396281443Declaration of Independence1776; Period 3;10
4396286529Articles of Confederation1777; Period 3; Precursor to the Constitution11
4396701922Period 41800-1848; Growth, developing identities; Louisiana Purchase; Antebellum; 2nd Great Awakening;12
4396740168War of 1812Period 4; U.S. v. Britain; U.S. Won;13
4396743511Manifest DestinyPeriod 4+; America was destined to take whole North America; Luis n Clark, Mexican-American War14
43967897262nd Great AwakeningPeriod 4; Linked to pre-civil-war reform; anti-slavery sentiments15
4396796410Andrew JacksonPeriod 4 President; "Trail of Tears", spoils system, Indian Removal16
4396837857Period 51844-1877; Telegraph - little bighorn; Expansion, Crisis, Rebuilding; Civil War17
4396858809Mexican-American warPeriod 5;18
4396870010Fugitive Slave Law 1850Period 5; slavery tension in free states; repealed 186419
4396876203Kansas-Nebraska ActPeriod 5; Self-determination for slavery in states;20
4396886741Bleeding KansasPeriod 5; People flowed into kansas to vote for self-determination, turned violent;21
4396898567Caning of Charles SumterPeriod 5;22
4396900322Dred ScottDeclared all negroes non-citizens23
4397118938Period 6"Gilded Age" 1865-1898; Industrialization; Business, cities, changes; Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Carnaegie24
4397169489Seneca FallsPeriod 6;25
4397193664Jim Crow LawsPeriod 6;26
4397200347Plessy V. FergesunPeriod 6;27
4397225663Period 71890-1945; Progressive Era; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; NAACP; WWI; Depression; Dustbowl;FDR's New Deal; WWII; Japanese Internment; nuclear bombs28
4397249858Panama CanalPeriod 7;29
4397526286Period 81945-1980; Cold War; Marshall Plan; Berlin Wall; CONTAINMENT; Space Race; Korean War and Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis; Nixon Scandal; Stagflation; Sexual Revolution; Counterculture; Beats30
4397533359Marshall PlanPeriod 8; Econ. Aid to EU. Countries;31
4397550046Truman DoctrinePeriod 8; Containment Policy32
4397557121McCarthyismPeriod 8; Fear-mongering of Communism; Red-Scare;33
4397561949Space RacePeriod 8; US. v. Soviet Union;34
4397584552Civil Rights MovementPeriod 8; Massive Resistance; Boycotts; Little Rock 9; Civil Rights Act; Black Panthers35
4397595194Great SocietyPeriod 8; poverty reforms;36
4397619080Immigration Act of 1965Period 8;37

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