1756-1783

1783-1791

Bill of Rights 1791

(1st 10 amendments to Constitution)

1789-1800

Hamilton Era

Washington & Jefferson

Jeffersonian

1800-1816

Democratic-Republicans

War of 1812 Second War of Independence

1816-1824

one political aprty

1820-1865

(actual war 1861-1865)

1865-1877

South occupied by U.S. Army

1860-1900

• coal-steam
• explosion of mass production
• Gilded Age (pretty on outside/reality inside- disease, filth)
• Tenement housing
• Rockefeller, Gould, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan
• Transcontinental RR
• Rough working conditions for children, women, immigrants

Three

2 Party Systems

• 1789-1816 Federalists vs Democratic Republicans
                 (Hamilton)            (Jefferson)
            (bankers/bus.men)  (wealthy farmers/slaves)

• 1816-1854 Democrats vs Whigs
                 (Jackson)       (Henry Clay)

• 1854-present day Democrats vs Republicans
                                               (Lincoln)