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Cultural Periods
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- Paleo Indian (18,000 BC - 8000 BC)
- Archaic (8000 BC - 1000 BC)
- Post-Archaic (1000 BC - present)
- European exploration (pre-1585)
- Colonial (1585 - 1763)
- Plantation Era (1700 - 1860)
- American Revolution (1763 - 1783)
- Young Republic (1783 - 1815)
- Second Great Awakening (1800 - 1840)
- National Expansion and Reform (1815 - 1860)
- American Civil War (1861 - 1865)
- Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)
- Jim Crow era (1876 - 1965)
- First-wave feminism (19th - early 20th century)
- Second Industrial Revolution (1871 - 1914)
- Progressive Era (1900 - 1929)
- Great Migration (1910 - 1940)
- Great Depression (1929 - 1939)
- New Deal (1933 - 1938)
- Second Great Migration (1941 - 1970)
- World War II (1939 - 1945)
- Postwar America (1945 - present)
