Important Events in American History

For each of the units listed below, you will find a list of some of the significant events that relate to that era.

Pre-Columbian Era to Precolonial Period (30,000 B.C. to 1603)

Colonial Life (1607-1760s)

Prologue to Revolution & Revolutionary War (1754-1783)

Articles of Confederation Period & Federalist Era (1781-1800)

Jeffersonian Era & War of 1812 (1801-1819)

Nationalism & Sectionalism (1800-1850)

Jacksonian Era (1828-1840s) & Reform Movements in the19th Century (1800-1850)

Immigration and Expansionism (1820s-1850s)

Antebellum Period & Civil War (1850-1865)

Reconstruction & Gilded Age (1865-1900)

Progressive Era & World War I (1900-1919)

1920s & Great Depresssion (1920-1939)

World War II (1939-1945)

Cold War and 1950s (1945-1959)

1960s (1960-1969)

Contemporary America (1970-present)

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