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'''Timeline of major events and periods''' | |||
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** but organizing US History into "periods" makes it more understandable | ** but organizing US History into "periods" makes it more understandable | ||
=== Major periods timeline === | === Major events timeline by century === | ||
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!Century | |||
!Period/s | |||
!Major Events | |||
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|'''17th Century (1600s)''' | |||
|'''Colonial''' | |||
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* early English colonies in Virginia & Massachusetts | |||
* colonial population growth via immigration and high birth rate | |||
* expansion of religious tolerance | |||
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|'''18th Century (1700s)''' | |||
|Late Colonia/ (1700s-1760s) | |||
Revolutionary (1760s-1780s | |||
Early Republic (1790s) | |||
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* westward expansion of English settlements, into and across Appalachian Mts | |||
* French-Indian War (1754-1763) | |||
* expansion of slavery in South, esp. for tobacco planting | |||
* Revolutionary period & war | |||
* new Republic under the US Constitution & introduction of Bill of RIghts | |||
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|'''19th Century (1800s)''' | |||
|Antebellum | |||
Civil War & Reconstruction | |||
Industrialization | |||
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* western expansion, esp. Louisiana Purchase, Mexican-American War | |||
* slave-based cotton economy & North-South division over slavery | |||
* Civil War & Reconstruction | |||
* European and East Asian immigration | |||
* Industrialization and railroads | |||
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|'''20th Century (1900s)''' | |||
|American Imperialism | |||
American Century | |||
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* U.S. involvement in overseas Wars | |||
* WWII & subsequent Cold War w/ the USSR | |||
* Collapse of USSR & American gobal dominance | |||
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|'''21st Century (2000s)''' | |||
|American Globalism | |||
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* American cultural and economic dominance | |||
* Wars on Terror | |||
* Rise of global economy and China | |||
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=== Major periods timeline (by date range) === | |||
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!Dates | !Dates | ||