Units & Time Periods Age of Reagan: The Rise of American Conservatism ( ) – Nixon/Ford ( ) – Carter ( ) – Reagan ( ) – Bush ( ) – Clinton ( ) – Other Important Years (OIY): Election Years 1980, 1984
American Origins: Settlement of North America ( ) – Spanish Settlement (1492-) – French Settlement (1524-) – English Settlement (1607-) OIY: 1620, 1630
Birth of the Republic: American Revolutionary & Critical Period ( ) – Toward Revolution ( ) – American Revolutionary War ( ) OIY: 1776, 1781 – Critical Period /Articles of Confederation( ) OIY: 1777, 1783, 1787 – Federalist Era ( ) OIY: 1800
Rise of American Democracy: Jeffersonian Republicanism through Jacksonian Democracy ( ) – Republican Era ( ) OIY: 1812, 1815, 1820, 1824 – Age of Jackson ( ) – Age of Reform (1830s & 40s) Battle Cry of Freedom: Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction ( ) – “Manifest Destiny”/Westward Expansion ( ) OIY: 1846, 1848 – Sectionalism & Secession ( ) – Civil War ( ) OIY: 1854, 1860, 1863 – Reconstruction ( )
The Gilded Age ( ) – Industrialization OIY: 1862 – Labor Unions – Immigration Changes – Age of Imperialism OIY: 1898 – Farmers/Populism OIY: 1896
The Progressive Era & 1920s ( ) – Progressive Era ( ) TR, Taft, Wilson Square Deal, New Nationalism, New Freedom World War I ( ), OIY: 1917 Grassroots Activism Amendments – 1920s “Return to Normalcy” First Red Scare Restrictions on Immigration Isolationism
Age of Roosevelt/Early Cold War ( ) – Great Depression ( ) – World War II ( ) OIY: 1941 – Early Cold War ( ) Truman Administration/Containment Eisenhower/New Look/Domino Theory 1950s, 1960s – Cold War Continues( ) – 1950s America: “Happy Days or Daze” – The Turbulent 1960s OIY: 1963, 1968