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38 Cards in this Set
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1200 BCE-1492
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Pre-Columbian Americas
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1490-1700
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Spanish, Portuguese and other European powers colonize the New World
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1607-1775
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Colonial Era (Jamestown-Revolution)
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1620s
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Plymouth; Saints and Strangers, City Upon a Hill, New England
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1745-1775
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French and Indian War to Revolution (taxes, etc.)
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1776-1783
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Revolution
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1781-1801
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The Critical Period AKA Federal Period AKA Early National
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1789-present
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Constitution is government
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1790s on
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Industrial Revolution
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1801-1825
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Jeffersonian Revolution
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1815-1825
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Era of Good Feelings (end of War of 1812 to Corrupt Bargain)
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1820s-1850s
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Market Revolution
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1820s-1850s
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Reform Movements
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1829-1841
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Jacksonian Era
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1844-1848
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Manifest Destiny (Texas, Oregon, Mexico)
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1846-1860
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Crazy Sectionalism Reignited (Wilmot Proviso--secession)
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1861-1865
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The Civil War (and Republican Legislation)
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1863-1877
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Reconstruction
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1850s-1890
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Plains Indians Wars
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1865-1901
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The Gilded Age: Unions, Populists, Robber-barons, Cities
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1877-1965
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Jim Crow
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1880s-1924
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"New Immigrants"
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1895ish-1909
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Age of Imperialism (Sp-Am War, Open Door, Corollary, Canal)
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1901-1914
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(or even 1921: 19th Amendment) Progressive Era
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1914-1918
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WWI and Great Migration
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1919-1920
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Red Scare I
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1920s
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prohibition, KKK, cars, movies, flappers, Jazz, Harlem, Scopes
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1930s
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Great Depression/ New Deal/ Isolationist foreign policy
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1939-1945
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WWII, mobilization, internment, holocaust
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1945-1991
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Cold War (key word: containment)
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1950-1953
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Korean Conflict
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1954-1965
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The Civil Rights Movement (much before, much after)
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1950s
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Cultural Conformity, Consumerism, TV, Elvis, Red Scare II
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1960s
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Vietnam, Youth, Hippies, Assassinations, Identity Movements
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1970s
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Detente, Vietnam over, Watergate, stagflation, 'malaise'
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1980s
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Prop 13, Reaganomics, 'Me generation', Cold War thaw
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1990s
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Cold War over, Culture Wars, Clinton, Econ. boom, impeachment
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2001-2011
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9/11 and the War on Terror, iPods and iPhones, Afghanistan, Iraq, Economic meltdown, Obama, Tea Party
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