I hope. Maybe less.

 A New Nation:  Expansion:  Civil War & Reconstruction:  Modern America Emerges:  Transitions & Conflict: 1918 – 1945  The Cold War:  Contrasts: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s  Redefining America: 1990s - present

 Revolution:  Articles of Confederation: 1781 – 1789  Constitution: 1789  First years: Washington inaugurates presidency Political parties form Slavery expands States’ rights vs federalism

 War of 1812  Slavery  cotton gin  Other early Industrial Revolution  Monroe Doctrine: 1823

 Expansion West Louisiana Purchase: 1803 Trail of Tears: 1830s Manifest Destiny, Oregon Trail Mexican War, 1946 – 48 (over TX) Gold Rushes: 1948  Lead Up to Civil War  Market Revolution  Second Great Awakening and Reform

 Civil War:

 Reconstruction: 1865 – 1876 Liberal Congressional Reconstruction Conservative “Redemption” Sharecropping, Black Codes, KKK 13 th, 14 th, 15 th Amendments Plessy v Ferguson 1896

 Industrialization accelerates  Progressivism takes hold: reforms  Imperialism: world power? Spanish-American War 1899  Guam, Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico  World War I: : world power! Unrestricted submarine warfare Zimmermann Telegram

 1920s: Party Decade Prohibition  1930s: Great Depression 1929 Stock Market Crash FDR & New Deal

 World War II: 1941 – 1945 Pearl Harbor Home Front Japanese Internment Atomic Bomb

 Cuba Missile Crisis 1962  Vietnam 1965 – 75  Korean War 1950 – 51  Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979

 1950s: suburbanization, picket fence life, Brown V Board of Ed 1954, Beats  1960s: Civil Rights Movement, JFK 1963 assassinated, RFK & MLK 1968 assassinated 1968: Kent State, RFK, MLK, Democratic riots 1969: Woodstock, Moon  1970s: Nixon Watergate 1974, late 70s economic crisis, Iran contra: 1981  1980s: Reagan conservatism

 Gulf War I:  Gulf War II: 2003 – 2010  Afghanistan War: 2001 – present  Sept 11, 2001