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U.S. History Primary Source Timeline. Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress. Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763; The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783; The New Nation, 1783 - 1815; National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880; Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763 Overview When the London Company sent out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20, 1606, it was by no means the first European attempt to exploit North America.
From the very beginning, Europeans' attempts to establish colonies in the western hemisphere foundered on the lack of laborers to do the hard work of colony-building. The Spanish, for example, enslaved the Native American in regions under their control. The English struck upon the idea of indentured servitude to solve the labor problem in Virginia.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783 Overview Until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, few colonists in British North America objected to their place in the British Empire.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900 Overview In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant.
Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 Overview In 1861, the United States faced its greatest crisis to that time.
The first shots of what would become the war for American independence were fired in April 1775. For some months before that clash at Lexington and Concord, patriots had been gathering arms and powder and had been training to fight the British if that became necessary.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline The New Nation, 1783 - 1815 Overview At the successful conclusion of the Revolutionary War with Great Britain in 1783, an American could look back and reflect on the truly revolutionary events that had occurred in the preceding three decades.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880 Overview During this period, the small republic founded by George Washington's generation became the world's largest democracy.