1. I hope. Maybe less.

2.  A New Nation: 1774-1800  Expansion: 1800-1860  Civil War & Reconstruction: 1860-76  Modern America Emerges: 1876-1918  Transitions & Conflict: 1918 – 1945  The Cold War: 1945 - 1991  Contrasts: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s  Redefining America: 1990s - present

3.  Revolution: 1775-83  Articles of Confederation: 1781 – 1789  Constitution: 1789  First years: Washington inaugurates presidency Political parties form Slavery expands States’ rights vs federalism

4.  War of 1812  Slavery  cotton gin  Other early Industrial Revolution  Monroe Doctrine: 1823

5.  Expansion West Louisiana Purchase: 1803 Trail of Tears: 1830s Manifest Destiny, Oregon Trail Mexican War, 1946 – 48 (over TX) Gold Rushes: 1948  Lead Up to Civil War  Market Revolution  Second Great Awakening and Reform

8.  Civil War: 1861 - 1865

9.  Reconstruction: 1865 – 1876 Liberal Congressional Reconstruction Conservative “Redemption” Sharecropping, Black Codes, KKK 13 th, 14 th, 15 th Amendments Plessy v Ferguson 1896

10.  Industrialization accelerates  Progressivism takes hold: reforms  Imperialism: world power? Spanish-American War 1899  Guam, Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico  World War I: 1917-1918: world power! Unrestricted submarine warfare Zimmermann Telegram

11.  1920s: Party Decade Prohibition  1930s: Great Depression 1929 Stock Market Crash FDR & New Deal

12.  World War II: 1941 – 1945 Pearl Harbor Home Front Japanese Internment Atomic Bomb

13.  Cuba Missile Crisis 1962  Vietnam 1965 – 75  Korean War 1950 – 51  Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979

14.  1950s: suburbanization, picket fence life, Brown V Board of Ed 1954, Beats  1960s: Civil Rights Movement, JFK 1963 assassinated, RFK & MLK 1968 assassinated 1968: Kent State, RFK, MLK, Democratic riots 1969: Woodstock, Moon  1970s: Nixon Watergate 1974, late 70s economic crisis, Iran contra: 1981  1980s: Reagan conservatism

15.  Gulf War I: 1991-92  Gulf War II: 2003 – 2010  Afghanistan War: 2001 – present  Sept 11, 2001