| Question | Answer |
| Colonial Period | 1607-1763 |
| Jamestown | 1607. 1st permanent English colony in the new world |
| Georgia | 1733. buffer to protect Charleston from Spanish Florida |
| End of Colonial Period | 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War, Britain reorganized the colonial governments and ended the period of salutary neglect |
| Revolutionary War and Critical Period | 1775-1789 |
| Revolutionary War | 1775-1783 |
| Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776 |
| Articles of Confederation | ratified 1781 |
| Federalist Era | 1789-1801
Presidents Washington and Adams |
| Age of Jefferson | 1801-1816
Presidents Jefferson and Madison |
| War of 1812 | Ended in 1814 with stalemate with Great Britain
1812-1814 |
| Era of Good Feelings | 1816-1824
President Monroe |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820
Declares MO will come in as a slave state, ME as a free state, and states formed north of MO's southern border will be closed to slavery while those south of line will be open to slavery |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823
Acts as a "Keep Out" sign on the Western Hemisphere |
| Jacksonian Democracy or the Age of the Common Man | 1824-1844 |
| Manifest Destiny | 1830s and 1840s |
| Mexican-American War | 1846-1848
Conflict triggered by the US annexation of Texas and America's belief that its "manifest destiny" was to control the american continent from coast to coast
President James K. Polk |
| California Gold Rush | 1849
Surge of miners westward which gave California enough population to apply for statehood in 1850
Zachary Taylor |
| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise over admission of territories gained form the Mexican Cession |
| Antebellum Period | 1840-1861 |
| Civil War | 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln |
| Reconstruction | 1865-1877
Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant |
| End of Reconstruction | 1877
Resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the gradual abandonment by Republicans of the freedom there; the "Solid South" resulted.
Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Gilded Age, Age of Industrialism, Farmer Discontent | 1865-1900 |
| Frontier Declared Officially Closed | 1890
the census report stated that a line dividing settled territory from unsettled areas no longer existed in the continental US |
| Spanish-American War | 1898
Short, imperialistic war which projected the US into world politics as a major power
William McKinley |
| Progressive Era | 1900-1920
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson |
| 19th Amendment | 1920
Women gain the right to vote |
| World War I | 1914-1918
Woodrow Wilson
US entered in 1917 |
| Great Depression | 1929-1941
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal |
| World War II | 1939-1945 |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941
FDR
Harry Truman |
| The Cold War | 1945-1989
Presidents in order: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George HW Bush |
| Korean War | 1950-1953
Undeclared war fought under UN mandate which left the country divided to this day
Truman
Eisenhower |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954
Resulted in the integration of public schools and was a major step toward integrating American society
Chief Justice Earl Warren |
| Vietnam Involvement | 1954-1975
Undeclared war fought in Indochina in order to contain communism' US withdrew and the area became communist
JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford |
| The Great Society | 1964-1969
LBJ |
| Nixon's Resignation | 1974 |
| Reagan Elected | 1980 |
