Timeline: U.S. history : 1877 - 2008 | Timetoast

Period: 1776 to 1860

early american history
Period: 1860 to 1877

civil war reconstruction
Period: 1877 to 1900

the gilded age
Period: 1890 to 1920

the progressive era
Period: 1898 to 1910

imperialism
Period: 1914 to 1918

world war I
Period: 1920 to 1929

roaring twenties
Period: 1929 to 1939

great depression
Period: 1939 to 1945

world war II
Period: 1945 to 1960

early cold war
Period: 1950 to 1970

civil rights era
Period: 1954 to 1960

Vietnam war
Period: 1970 to 1991

end of cold war
Period: 1990 to 2008

1990s 21st century