United States History Interactive Timeline from the Library of Congress and World Digital Library
New Amsterdam (New York City) 1617
Period 1: 1491-1607
Key Concept 1.1 Native Populations of North America
Key Concept 1.2 Encounters between Europeans, Native Americans and Africans
Period 2: 1607-1754
Key Concept 2.1 Goals and Patterns of European Colonization
Key Concept 2.2 The British Colonies
Period 3: 1754-1800
Key Concept 3.1 Colonial Independence and the Revolutionary War
Key Concept 3.2 New Experiments in Democratic Governance
Key Concept 3.3 Competition Over Resources, Boundaries and Trade
Period 4: 1800-1848
Key Concept 4.1 The Early Republic
Key Concept 4.2 Economic Transformation in Antebellum America
Key Concept 4.3 Foreign Policy and Trade
26th Regiment of the United States Colored Troops
Period 5: 1844-1877
Key Concept 5.1 Immigration, Migration and National Expansion
Key Concept 5.2 Debates Over Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Key Concept 5.3 Civil War and Reconstruction
Period 6: 1865-1898
Key Concept 6.1 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
Key Concept 6.2 Social and Cultural Change after the Civil War
Key Concept 6.3 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
Period 7: 1890-1945
Key Concept 7.1 The Great Depression and the New Deal
Key Concept 7.2 Traditionalism, Modernity and Mass Culture
Key Concept 7.3 The US as a World Power in the 20th Century
Period 8: 1945-1980
Key Concept 8.1 The US and the Cold War
Key Concept 8.2 Civil Rights and Expanding Roles for Government
Key Concept 8.3 Postwar Changes in American Society, Culture and Politics
Period 9: 1980-Present
Aerial view of Ground Zero, six days after September 11, 2001
Key Concept 9.1 The Conservative Movement in American Politics
Key Concept 9.2 Technological, Demographic and Economic Changes
Key Concept 9.3 Post Cold War American Foreign Policy
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