Frederick Douglass
(Library of Congress)
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| 1500s-1600s: Early American Colonial Life |
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| 1700-1750s: 18th Century Colonies |
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| 1750-1770s: Background to Revolution |
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| 1775-1783: The War for Independence |
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| 1781-1789: The Articles of Confederation & Constitutional Convention |
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| 1789-1801: Constitutional Convention to Downfall of the Federalists |
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1801-1815: Rise of Democrat-Republicans and the Search for a National Identity |
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| 1812-1815: War of 1812 |
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| 1829-1840s: Rise of the Common Man |
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| 1830s & 1840s: Westward Expansion & War with Mexico |
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| 1830s & 1840s: Reform in the Jacksonian Era |
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| 1800-1860: Slavery in America |
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| 1850s: Prelude to War |
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| 1860s: Civil War |
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| 1865-1876: Reconstruction |
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| 1860s-1900: Native Americans, Ranchers, Farmers & Railroads |
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| 1860-1900: Industrialism |
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| 1870-1900: Gilded Age Politics & Populism |
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| 1890-1914: Imperialism & Foreign Affairs |
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| 1900-1918: Progressivism |
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| 1914-1919: World War I & Treaty of Versailles |
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| 1920-1929: The Roaring Twenties |
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| 1929-1940: The Great Depression |
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| 1920-1939: American Foreign Policy Between the World Wars |
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| 1939-1945: World War II |
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| 1945-1960: Cold War, McCarthyism & Korea |
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| 1954-1968: Civil Rights |
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| 1950-1959: The 1950s |
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| 1954-1975: Vietnam |
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| 1960s: Kennedy, Youth Movements |
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| 1972-1974: Watergate |
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| 1975-present: Modern America |
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Sources & Resources: The quizzes are designed to assist the students in my class and have been built with Hot Potatoes, a wonderfulfreeware application developed by some Canadians at Half-Baked Software. Quiz questions have been assembled from a variety of texts, including supplementary volumes issued to accompany Norton's A People and a Nation, Current's American History, and Boyer's Enduring Vision. If you have questions about the correctness of any individual question, please contact me.