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Early American history
1776-1860: The Colonial and Early National Period (17th century to 1830) The first European settlers of North America wrote about their experiences starting in the 1600s. This was the earliest American literature: practical, straightforward, often derivative of literature in Great Britain, and focused on the future. -
Civil war/ reconstruction
1860-1877: Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. -
The gilded age
1877-1900: is the term used to describe the tumultuous years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. ... In fact, it was wealthy tycoons, not politicians, who inconspicuously held the most political power during the Gilded Age. -
The progressive era
1890-1920: The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. -
Imperialism
1898-1910: a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. -
World War One
1914-1918: also called First World War or Great War, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. ... The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused. -
Roaring 20s
1920-1929: The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. -
Great Depression
1929-1939: The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. -
World war 2
1939-1945: World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
Early cold war
1945-1960: Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. ... The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. -
Civil rights era
1950-1970: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States. -
Vietnam war
1954-1976: The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
End of cold war
1970-1991: During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. -
1990’s-21st century
1990-2008: very diffrent from all the others we have a bunch of freedom