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AP US History - Era Dates
dates of eras between 1492-1901
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History
11th Grade
12/11/2010
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1492-1607
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Pre-Columbian America
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1607-1720s
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The Founding of the English Colonies
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1720s-1763
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Eighteenth Century Colonial America
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1763-1775
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Tensions Between the Colonies and Britian
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1775-1783
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The War of Independence
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1781-1789
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The Era of Consitution Making (overlaps War of Independence)
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1789-1801
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The Federalist Era (aristocratic republic)
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1801-1816
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The Jeffersonian Era (aristocratic republic)
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1816-1824
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The Era of Good Feelings
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1824-1840
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The Age of Jackson
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1840-1848
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The Age of Manifest Destiny: US Territorial Expansion
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1848-1861
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Sectional Tensions between North and South
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1861-1865
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The Civil War
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1877-1901
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Era of the Guilded Age
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1865-1877
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The Age of Reconstruction
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