SAT Reading section historical timeline & themes: Difference between revisions

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* U.S. colonial westward expansion
* U.S. colonial westward expansion
* U.S. Independence / French Revolution
* U.S. Independence / French Revolution
* "Republican motherhood": the idea that women's role is to raise educated, civic-minded men
|| '''1700s timeline'''
|| '''1700s timeline'''
  - 1750s: French Indian War (America) / Seven Years War (Europe)  
  - 1750s: French Indian War (America) / Seven Years War (Europe)  
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  - Thoreau/ Emerson/ Transcendentalism, individualism, individual morality, nature
  - Thoreau/ Emerson/ Transcendentalism, individualism, individual morality, nature
  - temperance movement
  - temperance movement
- women's political participation (part of Jacksonian democracy)
  - women's suffrage (voting) & rights / franchise / disenfranchisement
  - women's suffrage (voting) & rights / franchise / disenfranchisement
  - Seneca Falls/ Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
  - Seneca Falls/ Declaration of Sentiments (1848)