Regional Outline for the United States of America

8000 – 600 CE 600 – 1450 CE 1450-1750 CE 1750 – 1914 CE 1914 - Present Politics Decentralized tribes and Decentralized tribes and Exploration/Colonization Emergence of England as Cold War (world = villages led of chiefs villages led of chiefs by mostly northern preeminent colonial ideological battlefield b/w European nations powerAmerican USSR and US) ‘Police (France, England, Dutch) Revolution = 1776 officer/Peace negotiator of -English colonial politics (Confederation more the world’ based on strong local centralized presidential government democracy) Civil War Economy Highly localized Even though less so Incorporation into global 1800s = Initial Interwar Period = Great agriculture economy is still rather trading network industrialization of Depression localized agriculture Beginning of Columbian textile full fledged (protectionism)Rebuilding Exchange (African slaves industrialization after WWIIEconomic to southern plantation, -Tech spurred globalization etc) improvement of infra Social Class/Gender (Most likely) Patriarchal Patriarchal Now, based on European Racism among peoples, Acceleration of women’s social system: patriarchal particularly toward rights (suffrage, divorce, African Americans economic rights, -Industrialization = Feminism) Greater civil women’s rights slowly ^ liberties (Civil Rights Movt) Science/Inventions For the most part, behind Still behind for the same Huge one-way Tech spurred Various tech that improved the rest of the world reasons (Some technological diffusion to improvement in econ; Military weaponry (Cause: geographical astrological technology Native Americans from infrastructure (rail) Physics (A-bomb) location = independent diffused from Europeans -Industrialization = new (Einstein), Rocketry (Space invention) Mesoamerica) technology race), Computer (Internet Art/Architecture Architecture: Crude, Moundbuilders of North European based art American regionalism, Architecture = steel  natural materials for basic America (current day (paintings, engravings) expressionalism (Hopper, larger building shelter Mississippi area) and architecture Rockwell), and Art New, independent Art: If any, probably abstractionism (O’Keefe, form of American writing, based on nature Dove, Burchefield) movies, art, etc Empire N/A N/A European colonial Expansionist domestic WWIWWII (expansion empires (biggest = New policy (expansion into b/c of conflict w/ England) West);Isolationist foreign Axis)Cold War (world = policy(Hesitant to enter ideological battlefield b/w WWI)Spanish Am. USSR and US) ‘Police War=the US Empire officer/Peace negotiator of (Monroe Doctrine) the world’ Religion Most likely, animism Animism New religion/ religious Christianity = prominent Christianity still dominant fervor (Pilgrims) / religion Introduction of Spread of other religions by conversion (missionaries) new religions/beliefs by immigrants immigrants (Judaism)