Tennessee State Library and Archives: Teaching American History: State Department of Education Chart

ERAS TAUGHT

GRADE 4

GRADE 5

GRADE 8

GRADE HS

1. Three Worlds Meet
(Beginnings to 1660)

2. Colonization and Settlement
(1585-1763)

3. Revolution and the New Nation
(1754-1820)

4. Expansion and Reform
(1801-1861)

5. Civil War and Reconstruction
(1850-1877)

6. The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

7. The Emergence of Modern America
(1890-1930)

8. The Great Depression and
World War II (1929-1945)

9. Postwar United States (1945-1970)

10. Contemporary United States
(1968 to the present)