- Colonial America, 1500 BC - 1780 AD
- The French and Indian War, 1747-1763
- The American Revolution, 1763-1783
- The Articles of Confederation, 1771-1781
- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, 1787-1815
- Early 19th Century America, 1793-1848
- Westward Expansion, 1830-1850
- Election of 1860, 1820-1860
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Reconstruction After the Civil War, 1865-1877
- Late 19th Century America, 1860-1900
- The Progressive Era, 1900-1920
- America as a World Power, 1875-1917
- America World War 1, 1914-1920
- Jazz Age, 1919-1929
- The Great Depression, 1929-1939
- America World War 2, 1936-1945
- Postwar America, 1945-1969
- New Frontier, Civil Rights Movement, and Great Society, 1960-1968
- The Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- The Nixon Era and Watergate, 1968-1974
- End of the Cold War, 1976-1991
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Family and Community Colonial Life
Family and Community Colonial Life The family was the most important unit of society in colonial America. Communities in the New World were quite small at first, and for a long time they remained relatively small compared to the size of the same cities and towns ...
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The Growth of Slavery
The Growth of Slavery Slavery grew rapidly as the colonies developed. The first Africans to come to America arrived in Jamestown in 1619; they were indentured servants who would earn their freedom after an agreed-upon term of labor. In 1661, the colony of Virginia ...
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Education and Enlightenment in Colonial Life
Introduction Two basic cultural forces have shaped the United States of America; both came into evidence in Colonial times, and they remain hostile to each other to this day. The first is the influence of the Enlightenment; the second is religious fervor.
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Politics and the Economy in Colonial Life
Politics and the Economy The political relationship between the colonies and Britain was a mix of heavy- handed control and near-total noninterference. The inconsistency of the British approach to Colonial rule was a major factor in the colonists’ desire to ...
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Europeans and Indians - Conflict and Alliance
Europeans and Indians: Conflict and Alliance By the mid-1700s, France had claimed eastern Canada and a large central portion of the present United States. Control of the Mississippi River was key to the French fur-trading industry. The French had built the cities ...
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The Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union Benjamin Franklin was among the first to realize that large-scale conflict over Colonial land lay ahead. Franklin considered the Iroquois Confederacy an impressive exercise in democratic rule, and in 1751 he proposed that the colo- nists ...
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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War The French and Indian War came about because France and Britain did not agree on the western boundaries of the British colonies. Britain’s colonists believed—in many cases their royal charters explicitly stated—that they ...
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