Correctly match the characteristics, people, events, and documents to the following time periods. Each correct match is worth 1 point. Pre-Colonial 12,000 B. C– A. D. 1607
Colonial Era 1500s–1763
Becoming a Nation 1763–1789
The New Republic 1789–1815
Growing and Changing 1815–1858
The Civil War and Reconstruction 1858-1877
The Modern Era Begins 1877–1900

hoop skirts, blue and gray, Bull Run
Louisiana Purchase, “Star-Spangled Banner,” Farewell Address
long houses, potlatches, Beringia
Andrew Carnegie, Standard Oil, the light bulb
Pilgrims, John Smith, indentured servants
Declaration of Independence, Yorktown, Shays’s Rebellion
transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, the Alamo
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 13th Amendment
steam engine, canals, Seneca Falls Convention
Williamsburg, John Oglethorpe, Mayflower Compact
President Washington, Alien and Sedition Acts, cotton gin
cattle drives, Ellis Island, Samuel Gompers
Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Constitutional Convention
Dred Scott, John Brown, Antietam
Hamilton’s Financial Plan, Marbury v. Madison, Lewis and Clark
Italian immigrants, Battle of Wounded Knee, W. E.B. DuBois
French and Indian War, House of Burgesses, Puritans
Boston Massacre, the Virginia Plan, Bunker Hill
Santa Fe Trail, Mexican War, Irish immigrants
stocks and bonds, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, alternating current.