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* 1990-91: Gulf War
* 1990-91: Gulf War
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|<nowiki>*</nowiki> American Revolution timeline:
|<nowiki>*</nowiki>'''American Revolution timeline:'''
   - 1765-1775: Colonial agitation
   - 1765-1775: Colonial agitation
   - 1775-1781: War
   - 1775-1781: War
   - 1783: Treaty of Paris formally ends War
   - 1783: Treaty of Paris formally ends War
||<nowiki>**</nowiki> French Revolution timeline:  
||<nowiki>**</nowiki>'''French Revolution timeline:'''
  - 1789-91: Estates General  
  - 1789-91: Estates General  
  - 1792-93: Overthrow and execution of King Louis XV
  - 1792-93: Overthrow and execution of King Louis XV
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== Themes & events timelines ==
=== 1500s-1700s ===
* the SAT will not test documents from these periods
** it is useful to know the general timeline, anyway
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;"
|+ 16th & 17th centuries
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| 1500-1600s
* Early British colonial settlements:
** 1584 Roanoke
** 1607 Jamestown/ Virginia Company
** Mass Bay Colony / Pilgrims / Puritans
** New England small farms/ townships
* 1676: Bacon's Rebellion
** = Virginia planters v. settlers moving westward
1700s General:
* Enlightenment / Age of Reason
* Americas colonization
* European economic / political expansion/ colonization/ slavery / mercantilism
* U.S. colonial westward expansion
* U.S. Independence / French Revolution
|| '''1700s timeline'''
- 1750s: French Indian War (America) / Seven Years War (Europe)
- end of salutary neglect
- 1760s: British colonial rule, including:
  - trade restrictions
  - taxes
  - dispute over representation in Parliament
'''1775-81 American Revolution'''
- 1776: Declaration of Independence
- 1787: US Constitution (ratified 1789)
- 1789 US Gov operates under constitution
'''1789-95: French Revolution'''
- 1793: French Rev: Reign of Terror
- 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power
|-
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=== 1800s ===
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;"
|+ 19th century
|-
|* '''1800s general:'''
- US western expansion (new states)
- Social and economic change/ progress
- Rising middle and professional class
- Industrialization
- Disruption of aristocratic order/ less importance
- Democracy / expanding rights and freedoms
'''Early 1800s timeline'''
- 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1812-1815 War of 1812 (US v Britain)
- 1815-25: Era of Good Feelings
- 1820s: European monarchies restoration / UK industrialization / railroads / telegraph
- 1848: revolutions in Europe (unsuccessful)
- 1848-49: California gold rush
- 1840s-50s: Karl Marx / Irish potato famine / direct British rule in India / Charles Darwin
'''1820s-1850s Antebellum US:'''
- Missouri Comprise of 1820
- Alexander de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” (study of America by French diplomat)
- sectional conflict & compromises: slavery/ tariff/ National Bank
- Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
- Indian wars 1830s (also 1870s)
- religious movements / Second Great Awakening/
- Thoreau/ Emerson/ Transcendentalism, individualism, individual morality, nature
- temperance movement
- women's suffrage (voting) & rights / franchise / disenfranchisement
- Seneca Falls/ Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
- anti-slavery/ abolition movement / Frederick Douglass / Underground Railroad / Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|| '''Antebellum additional:'''
- 1820s-40s US: railroads/ canals / telegraph
- 1830s-50s: Manifest Destiny / western expansion
- 1848: Mexican-American War (ends compromise of 1820 due to new states/ territories; leads to North-South division)
'''1861-1865: Civil War'''
- slavery / states’ rights / union
- Lincoln / Gettysburg Address / Emancipation Proclamation
''' 1865-1877: Reconstruction'''
- 13th, 14th, 15th amendments to Constitution (ending slavery, protecting civil rights, & suffrage, i.e.)
- occupation of South by northern troops
- carpetbaggers
- end of Reconstruction = rise of Jim Crow and segregation / rights abuses of blacks
'''1870s-1890s US'''
- industrialization / "Gilded Age" / Robber Barons (industry)
- railroads
- urbanization
- labor / industry
- 1896: Spanish-American War: U.S. expansion / colonialization (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines)
- 1870s-1890s other
- opening of Japan (Mathew Perry, 1854), Japanese industrialization
- German unification & industrialization
- European imperialism & colonialism / “Scramble for Africa” / Berlin Conference / interventions in China / Opium Wars
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;"
|+ 20th century
|-
| '''1900s General'''
- world wars
- economic growth/ middle class
- automobiles & industry
- social, class & labor conflict
- racial & ethnic awareness, feminism, civil rights and equality
- communism / Cold War
'''1890s-1910s: Progressive Era'''
- US: reform / urban conditions / labor / immigration
- UK: suffragette movement (voting, elected office)
'''1914-1918: WWI'''
- nationalization (collapse of European monarchies by WWII)
- US entry: 1917-1918
- 1919: Women right to vote in US
'''1920s: Roaring 20s'''
- consumerism / rise of middle class
- prohibition
- Jazz Age / Harlem Renaissance
'''1930s'''
- Great Depression / New Deal/ government intervention in economy, jobs, etc.
- German militarism, invasion of Poland, 1939
- Japan militarism/ expansionism / Russo-Japanese War, 1904 / invasion of Manchuria, 1931 / Pearl Harbor, 1941
- U.S. war mobilization
||'''1945-1950s post-War '''
- United Nations / Declaration of Human Rights
- 1950's middle class / suburbs / television / autos & highways / pop culture
- Civil Rights / Brown v. Board of Edu / protests
- Korean War (1950-53) / Cold War
- Brown v. Board of Education (desegregation)
'''1960s'''
- Civil Rights movement/ MLK / March on Washington, 1963
- Vietnam War /protests / youth movements / hippies / popular culture / rock-n-roll
- MLK assassination/ urban riots
''' 1970s'''
- inflation
- economic decline (“stagflation”)
- feminism
- Détente (US – USSR) / missile treaties
''' 1980s'''
- Ronald Reagan
- economic growth
- banking / Wall Street scandals
- 1989: collapse of Soviet Union
''' 1990s/ 2000s General'''
- digital & medical technologies
- the internet / social media
- globalization
- global warming
- War on Terror / Afghan & Iraq wars / Patriot Act / “surveillance state”
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== General SAT Reading section topics & themes ==
* SAT reading selections are usually aimed at the following topics:
** global warming / climate/ environmental sustainability
** social and political change, especially in historical pieces pertaining to social transitions from aristocratic or elitist to modern societies
** rise of middle or professional classes
** democratization & race and gender equality
** industrialization, urbanization and impact of technological change
** DNA, biodiversity, space technology, animal behavior
** social media and other technological challenges to modern society
** libraries, academics, and information technology
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