Decade Association Review

Flashcards for reviewing historical events and associations by decade.

1960s

Characterized by “Long hot summers”, Freedom Summer, Greensboro sit-ins, U-2 incident, and détente.

1920s

Notable for the “lost generation”, Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Marcus Garvey.

1930s

Included the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), phony war, Congress of Industrial Organization, brain trust, and Huey Long (Kingfish).

1940s

Featured Alger Hiss, NSC 68, NATO, Casablanca Conference, and Henry Wallace.

1820s

Marked by the American Colonization Society, Missouri Compromise, Era of Good Feelings, Tariff of Abominations, and South Carolina Exposition.

1880s

Known for the American Federation of Labor, Dawes Act, Alfred Thayer Mahan, horizontal/vertical integration, and the Haymarket Square Incident.

1950s

Described by baby boomers, Sputnik, the beat generation, Brown v. Board of Education, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

1930s

Significant for the bank holiday, National Recovery Act, destroyer deal, Scottsboro boys, and Wagner Act.

1790s

Involved the Bank of the United States, Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions, XYZ Affair, Whiskey Rebellion, and Jay Treaty.

1830s

Included the Bank war, spoils system, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, and gag rule.

1770s

Characterized by the Battle of Saratoga, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Coercive/Intolerable Acts, Olive Branch Petition, and Boston Tea Party.

1960s

Events include Bay of Pigs, Malcolm X, War on Poverty, Warren Commission, and Ralph Nader’s (Unsafe at any Speed).

1870s

Important events include the Bland-Allison Act, Thomas Nast, Henry George (Progress and Poverty), Munn v. Illinois, and “Crime of ‘73”.

1890s

Events include the Boxer Rebellion, Coxey’s Army, Frederick Olmstead, Teller Amendment, and Wounded Knee.

1870s

Included the Chautauqua movement, Freedmen’s Bureau, Battle of Little Bighorn, “waving the bloody shirt”, and Boss Tweed.

1910s

Featured the Committee on Public Information, League of Nations, Federal Reserve System, International Workers of the World, and the 16th, 17th, 18th Amendments.

1780s

Characterized by the Connecticut (Great) Compromise, Virginia/New Jersey Plans, disestablishment, Barbary Pirates, and Treaty of Paris.

1910s

Featured the Creel Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge, “Birth of a Nation”/D.W. Griffith, Article X, and Wobblies.

1840s

Includes cult of domesticity/true womanhood, Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, Neal Dow, and Lucretia Mott.

1850s

Includes Dred Scott v. Sandford, Fugitive Slave Law, Gadsden Purchase, Bleeding Kansas, and the Sumner-Brooks affair.

1860s

Involved the Emancipation Proclamation, Trent Affair, Homestead Act, Battle of Antietam, and Crittenden Compromise.

1920s

Includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, cultural isolation, quota system, Harlem Renaissance, and Washington Naval Conference.

1940s

Important events include the Fair Deal, Japanese internment, Truman Doctrine, Yalta Conference, and Taft-Hartley Act.

1930s

Key events include the Fair Labor Standards Act, New Deal, Bonus March, 21st Amendment, and Dole.

1950s

Featured the Federal Highway Act, Montgomery bus boycott, Eisenhower Doctrine, Korean War, Alan Ginsberg (The Howl).

1850s

Key concepts include the Freeport Doctrine, Clayton-Bulwer treaty, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Nashville Convention.

1700-1750

Characterized by the French and Indian War, Albany Plan, mercantilism, Salutary neglect, and William Pitt.

1920s

Includes Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Hopper, normalcy, “Back to Africa movement”, and Albert Fall.

1850s

Features Hinton Helper/Impending Crisis, Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty, Ostend Manifesto, and Lecompton Constitution.

1930s

Events include the hundred days, America First Committee, Elijah Mohammad (Black Muslims), Keynesian economics, and National Labor Relations Act.

1900s

Includes Insular Cases, “good and bad” trusts, Charles and Mary Beard, Great White Fleet, and Square Deal.

1940s

Includes Jackie Robinson, GI Bill of Rights, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, and San Francisco Conference.

1900s

Includes Jacob Riis, Northern Securities Case, Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones, Muller v. Oregon, and Robert LaFollette.

1970s

Events include Jimmy Carter, Watergate, Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, and Gerald Ford.

1830s

Includes John C. Calhoun, abolitionists, Charles River Bridge case, DeTocqueville/Democracy in America, and removal of deposits.

1920s

Features the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Herbert Hoover, H.L. Mencken, Charles Lindbergh, and Scopes Trial.

1850s

Features the Know Nothing/American Party, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican party, antebellum, and Underground Railroad.

1920s

Includes Langston Hughes, Andrew Mellon, National Origins Act, Ku Klux Klan, and Calvin Coolidge.

1800s

Features Lewis and Clark, Orders in Council, yeoman farmers, Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion, and Judicial Review.

1950s

Events include Little Rock school crisis, National Defense Education Act, Dynamic Conservatism, Jack Kerouac, (On the Road).

1790s

Features Loose/strict constructionism, cotton gin/Eli Whitney, Citizen Genet, Bill of Rights, and Alien and Sedition Acts.

1800s

Events include Marbury v. Madison, Embargo Act, Louisiana Purchase, impressments, and interchangeable parts.

1920s

Includes Margaret Sanger, Thomas Hart Benton, Teapot Dome/Elk Hills Scandals, Universal Negro Improvement Association, and “Spirit of St. Louis”.

1960s

Events include Miranda v. Arizona, John F. Kennedy (New Frontier), Huey Newton (Black Panthers), Michael Harrington (The Other America), and Cuban Missile Crisis.

1860s

Events include Molly McGuires, “forty acres and a mule”, National Labor Union, crop lien system, and Granger Laws.

1820s

Includes Monroe Doctrine, corrupt bargain, Erie Canal, Lowell/Waltham System/Lowell girls, and Gibbons v. Ogden.

1860s

Includes Morrill Land Grant Act, National Banking Act, nature of the union, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and radical reconstruction.

1930s

Includes National Industrial Recovery Act, FDIC, TVA, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bonus March.

1890s

Includes new immigrants, Plessy v. Ferguson, Joseph Pulitzer, Populist (People’s Party), and Turner (Frontier) Thesis.

1910s

Includes New Nationalism, Mann-Elkins Act, “Black Jack” John Pershing, insurgent’s revolt, and New Freedom.

1880s

Features Open Range, Interstate Commerce Act, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Mugwumps

1840s

Oregon Territory, John Slidell, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Horace Mann, Webster-Ashburton Treaty

1910s

Events include Palmer Raids, Schenck v. U.S., Clayton Anti-trust Act, Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, preparedness.

1900s

Includes Panama Canal, W.E.B. DuBois (Niagara movement), Dollar Diplomacy, Open Door Policy, Roosevelt Corollary

1960s

Includes Peace Corps, Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Stokely Carmichael (Black Power), Great Society

1880s

Includes Pendleton (Civil Service) Act, Samuel Gompers, Gilded Age, Farmer’s Alliances, Chinese Exclusion Act

1700-1750s

Features the Peter Zenger trial, Great Awakening, James Oglethorpe, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards

1600-1650s

Features Pilgrims/Separatists, Anne Hutchinson, headright system, Freedom of conscience, city on a hill

1900s

Includes Platt amendment, Louis Sullivan, Progressive movement, Russo-Japanese War, Hay-Buneau-Varilla Treaty

1880s

Includes Pragmatism (William James), Salvation Army, John Dewey, Young Men’s Christian Association, Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)

1840s

Includes Prigg v Pennsylvania, Mexican American War, Mormons, free soilers, American Anti-Slavery Society

1760s

Events include the Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Paxton Boys, Sugar Act, no taxation without representation.

1970s

Events include SALT I Treaty, hippies, Camp David Accords, Mayaguez Incident, Bakke v Board of Regents.

1790s

Includes Samuel Slater, Federalist/First American Party System, Pinckney Treaty, undeclared naval war, full funding/assumption

1930s

Includes Securities and Exchange Commission, Neutrality acts, court-packing scheme, “share the wealth”, Indian Reorganization Act.

1840s

Seneca Falls Convention, Maine Laws, Irish immigration, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso

1940s

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, Ralph Bunche, George Kennan, United Nations, Korematsu v. U.S.

1890s

Features the settlement house movement, William Jennings Bryan, Atlanta Compromise, jingoism, Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

1780s

Includes Shay’s Rebellion, Northwest Ordinance, Three-fifths Compromise, Articles of Confederation, Annapolis Convention.

1880s

Includes Social Gospel, Knights of Labor, Jim Crow Laws, A Century of Dishonor, social Darwinism.

1890s

Spanish-American War, Booker T. Washington, Gospel of Wealth, yellow journalism, Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1900s

Includes Spheres of influence, Big Stick Policy, Lochner v. New York, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Muckrakers

1760s

Includes Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Townshend Acts

1980s

Includes Supply-side economics, Iran-Contra, Geraldine Ferraro, Oliver North, “evil empire

1770s

Tea Act, Boston Massacre, Gaspee Affair, First/Second Continental Congress, Crisis papers

1870s

Features: the Grange, Credit Moblier Scandal, long drives, Horatio Alger, Chief Joseph

1900s

Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Emilio Aguinaldo, Pure Food and Drug Act, Anthracite Coal Strike

1650-1700s

Events include Trade and Navigation Acts, Bacon’s Rebellion, King Phillip’s War, Salutary neglect, Halfway Covenant

1830s

Consisted of the Trail of Tears, Dorothea Dix, nullification, William Lloyd Garrison/Liberator, Worcester v. Georgia.

1810s

Consisted of the Treaty of Ghent, Hartford Convention, Adams-Onis Treaty, War Hawks, and the American System.

1910s

Consisted of the Treaty of Versailles, Federal Trade Commission, Irreconcilables, Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, and Ballinger-Pinchot Affair.

1910s

Triple wall of privilege, Sussex/Arabic Pledges, Food Administration, Zimmerman Note (Telegram)

1910s

Consisted of the Underwood-Simmons Tariff, Bull Moose Party, Federal Reserve Act, “he kept us out of war”, and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.

1910s

Volstead Act, Woodrow Wilson, reservationists, Fourteen Points, insurgents revolt

1960s

Voting Rights Act, Barry Goldwater, Rachel Carson (Silent Spring), Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnamization (Guam/Nixon Doctrine)

1970s

War Powers Act, Equal Rights Amendment, OPEC, Helsinki Accords, Kent State

1830s

Whigs/2nd American Party System, Apologists' view of slavery, Force Act, Independent Treasury, Specie Circular

1890s

William Randolph Hearst, Pullman Strike, J.P. Morgan, Cross of Gold speech, Plessy v. Ferguson

1930s

Works Progress Administration (WPA), cash and carry, sit-down strike, John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath), Social Security

1600-1650s

Events include indentured servants, Mayflower Compact, Roger Williams, Great Puritan Migration, and House of Burgesses.

1860s

Seward’s Folly, sharecropping, Tenure of Office Act, redemption (redeemers), scalawags