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Colonial
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Reconstruction to WWI
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Early America & Colonial
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1450-1550 -- Worlds in Motion
1550-1650 -- Colonial Outposts
1600-1660 -- English Come to Stay
1660-1720 -- Continental Empires
1700-1775 -- 18th Century World
Revolution & New Nation
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1713-1774 -- Conflict in the Empire
1775-1788 -- Creating a New Nation
1789-1800 -- Contested Republic
1800-1819 -- Republic in Transition
Expansion & Reform
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1820-1840 -- Jacksonian Democracy
1820-1848 -- Reform and Conflict
1836-1848 -- Manifest Destiny
1848-1860 -- Politics of Slavery
Civil War & Reconstruction
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1861-1865 -- War and Emancipation
1865-1877 -- Reconstructing a Nation
The Guilded Age & Industry
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1850-1890 -- Industsrial Capitalism
1870-1892 -- Industrial America
1890-1900 -- Industry and Empire
Progressive Era & WWI
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1900-1916 -- United Body of Action
1914-1919 -- A Gobal Power
1919-1928 -- The Modern Nation
Great Depression & WWII
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1929-1940 -- Depression / New Deal
1941-1945 -- The Second World War
Cold War & Prosperity
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1945-1954 -- The Cold War
1945-1961 -- The Consumer Society
1960-1968 -- The Table of Democracy
Economic Decline & Conservatism
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1968-1980 -- Living with Less
1980-1991 -- Triumph of Conservatism
Current & Modern Era
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1989-2001 -- Globalized Nation
21st Century -- A Nation Transformed
Decades
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