Themes in American History by Time Period

Time Period
Dates
American Dreams
Growth of Democracy
Expanding Borders and Influence
Cultural Contact and Conflict
Industrial and Technological Change
Pre-Columbian
Pre-history - 1492
         
Explorers
1492 - 1520
         
Colonial Era
1520 - 1776
         
American Revolution
1776 - 1783
         
Early Repulbic
1783 - 1815
    Lewis & Clark    
Jacksonian Democracy
1815-1840
Oregon Donation Act Oregon Donation Act   Oregon Donation Act  
Antebellum Expansion
1840-1859
  Seneca Falls: Voting Rights      
Civil War
1860 - 1865
         
Reconstruction
1865 - 1880
         
Gilded Age Industrialization
1880-1914
      Federal Indian Policy, Native Americans & the Allotment Era Technology and Rural America in the Gilded Age
Populism Progressive          
WWI
1914 - 1920
         
1920s
1920 - 1929
       

Damming Rivers

The Automobile in the 1920s

Great Depression New Deal
1930 - 1939
         
WWII
1940 - 1945
      Jananese Relocation  
Red Scare/Cold War/1950s
1946 - 1960
      Bracero Program  
New Frontier/Great Society/Civil Rights
1960 - 1965
         
Countercutlure/Anti-War/Vietnam
1967 - 1975
         
Reemergence of Conservatism
1975 - 1990
         
Post-Cold War Globalization
1990 - 2005