Era of expansion and political reform, 1816-59 -- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-79 -- The Gilded Age, 1880-99 -- The Industrial Revolution, 1900-11 -- World War I and the Great Depression, 1912-31 -- The New Deal era and World War II, 1932-45 -- The postwar era, 1946-59 -- The New Frontier and Great Society, 1960-67 -- Civil rights and Vietnam, 1968-71 -- The Watergate era, 1972-79 -- The republication revolution, 1980-91 -- The new millennium, 1992-2008. |