Decade Association - Answers
1. 1960s
“Long hot summers”, Freedom Summer, Greensboro sit-ins, U-2 incident, détente
2. 1920s “lost generation”, Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford, Sacco and Vanzetti, Marcus Garvey
3. 1930s Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), phony war, Congress of
Industrial
Organization, brain trust, Huey Long (Kingfish)
4. 1940s
Alger Hiss, NSC 68, NATO, Casablanca Conference, Henry Wallace
5. 1820s American Colonization Society, Missouri Compromise, Era of Good Feelings, Tariff of
Abominations, South Carolina Exposition
6. 1880s American Federation of Labor, Dawes Act, Alfred Thayer Mahan, horizontal
integration/vertical integration, Haymarket Square Incident
7. 1950s
baby boomers, Sputnik, beat generation, Brown v. Board of Education, Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg
8. 1930s
bank holiday, National Recovery Act, destroyer deal, Scottsboro boys, Wagner Act
9. 1790s
Bank of the United States, Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions, XYZ Affair, Whiskey
Rebellion, Jay Treaty
10. 1830s
Bank war, spoils system/rotation in office, Second Great Awakening,
Transcendentalism, gag rule
11. 1770s
Battle of Saratoga, Thomas Paine/Common Sense, Coercive/Intolerable Acts, Olive
Branch Petition, Boston Tea Party
12. 1960s
Bay of Pigs Malcolm X, War on Poverty, Warren Commission, Ralph Nader (Unsafe
at any Speed)
13. 1870s
Bland-Alison Act, Thomas Nast, Henry George (Progress and Poverty), Munn v.
Illinois, “Crime of ‘73”
14. 1890s
Boxer Rebellion, Coxey’s Army, Frederick Olmstead, Teller Amendment, Wounded
Knee
15. 1870s
Chautauqua movement, Freedmen’s Bureau, Battle of Little Bighorn, “waving the
bloody shirt”, Boss Tweed
16. 1910s Committee on Public Information, League of Nations, Federal Reserve System,
International Workers of the World, 16th, 17th, 18th Amendments
17. 1780s
Connecticut (Great) Compromise, Virginia/New Jersey Plans, disestablishment,
Barbary Pirates, Treaty of Paris
18. 1910s
Creel Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge, “Birth of a Nation”/D.W. Griffith, Article X,
Wobblies
19. 1840s
cult of domesticity/true womanhood, Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, Neal Dow,
Lucretia Mott
20. 1850s
Dred Scott v. Sandford, Fugitive Slave Law, Gadsden Purchase, bleeding Kansas,
Sumner-Brooks affair
21. 1860s
Emancipation Proclamation, Trent Affair, Homestead Act, Battle of Antietam,
Crittenden Compromise
22. 1920s
F. Scott Fitzgerald, cultural isolation, quota system, Harlem Renaissance, Washington
Naval Conference
23. 1940s
Fair Deal, Japanese interment, Truman Doctrine, Yalta Conference, Taft-Harley Act
24. 1930s
Fair Labor Standards Act, New Deal, Bonus march, 21st Amendment, dole
25. 1950s
Federal Highway Act, Montgomery bus boycott, Eisenhower Doctrine, Korean War,
Alan Ginsberg (The Howl)
26. 1850s
Freeport Doctrine, Clayton-Bulwer treaty, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, Nashville Convention
27. 1760s
French and Indian War, Albany Plan, mercantilism, Salutary neglect, William Pitt
28. 1920s
Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Hopper, normalcy, “Back to Africa movement”. Albert Fall
29. 1850s
Hinton Helper/Impending Crisis, Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty, Ostend
Manifesto, Lecompton Constitution
30. 1930s
hundred days, America First Committee, Elijah Mohammad (Black Muslims),
Kenesian economics, National Labor Relations Act
31. 1900s
Insular Cases, “good and bad” trusts, Charles and Mary Beard, Great White Fleet,
Square Deal
32. 1940s
Jackie Robinson, GI Bill of Rights, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, San Francisco
Conference
33. 1900s
Jacob Riis, Northern Securities Case, Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones, Muller v. Oregon,
Robert LaFollette
34. 1970s
Jimmy Carter, Watergate, Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, Gerald Ford
35. 1830s
John C. Calhoun, abolitionists, Charles River Bridge case, DeTocqueville/Democracy
in America, removal of deposits
36. 1920s
Kellogg-Briand Pact, Herbert Hoover, H.L. Menken, Charles Lindbergh, Scopes Trial
37. 1850s
Know Nothing/American Party, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican party/3rd Am. Party
Sys., antebellum, Underground Railroad
38. 1920s
Langston Hughes, Andrew Mellon, National Origins Act, Ku Klux Klan, Calvin
Coolidge
39. 1800s
Lewis and Clark, Orders in Council, yeoman farmers, Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion,
Judicial Review
40. 1950s Little Rock school crisis, national Defense Education Act, dynamic conservatism, Jack
Kerouac, (On the Road)
41. 1790s
Loose/strict constructionism, cotton gin/Eli Whitney, Citizen Genet, Bill of Rights,
Alien and Sedition Acts
42. 1800s Marbury v. Madison, Embargo Act, Louisiana Purchase, impressments,
interchangeable parts
43. 1920s
Margaret Sanger, Thomas Hart Benton, Teapot Some/Elk Hills Scandals, Universal
negro Improvement Assc., “Spirit of St. Louis”
44. 1960s
Miranda v. Arizona, John F. Kennedy (New Frontier), Huey Newton (Black Panthers),
Michael Harrington (The Other America), Cuban Missile Crisis
45. 1860s
Molly McGuires, “forty acres and a mule”, National labor Union, crop lien system,
Granger Laws
46. 1820s
Monroe Doctrine, corrupt bargain, Erie Canal, Lowell/Walthan System/Lowell girls,
Gibbons v. Ogden
47. 1860s
Morrill Land Grant Act, National banking Act, nature of the union, 13th 14th 15th
Amendments, radical reconstruction
48. 1930s
National Industrial Recovery Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), TVA
(Tennessee Valley Authority), Franklin Roosevelt, bonus march
49. 1890s
new immigrants, Plessy v. Ferguson, Joseph Pulitzer, Populist (People’s Party), Turner
(Frontier) Thesis
50. 1910s
New Nationalism, Mann-Elkins Act, “Black Jack” John Pershing, insurgent’s revolt,
New Freedom
51. 1880s
open range, Interstate Commerce Act, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller,
mugwumps
52. 1840s
Oregon Territory, John Slidell, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Horace Mann, WebsterAshburton Treaty
53. 1910s
Palmer Raids, Schenck v. U.S., Clayton Anti-trust Act, Keating-Owen Child Labor
Act, preparedness
54. 1900s
Panama Canal, W.E.B. DuBois (Niagara movement), Dollar Diplomacy, Open Door
Policy, Roosevelt Corollary
55. 1960s
Peace Corps, Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
Stokely Carmichael (Black Power), Great Society
56. 1880s
Pendleton (Civil Service) Act, Samuel Gompers, Gilded Age, Farmer’s Alliances,
Chinese Exclusion Act
57. 1700-1750s
Peter Zenger trial, Great Awakening, James Oglethorpe, George Whitefield,
Jonathan Edwards
58. 1600-1650s
Pilgrims/Separatists, Anne Hutchinson, headright system, Freedom of
conscience, city on a hill
59. 1900s
Platt amendment, Louis Sullivan, Progressive movement, Russo-Japanese War, HayBuneau-Varilla Treaty
60. 1880s
pragmatism (William James), Salvation Army, John Dewey, Young Men’s Christian
Association, Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
61. 1840s Prigg v Pennsylvania, Mexican American War, Mormons, free soilers, American Antislavery Society
62. 1760s
Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Paxton Boys, Sugar Act, no taxation without
representation
63. 1970s
SALT I Treaty, hippies, Camp David Accords, Mayaguez incident, Bakke v Board of
Regents
64. 1790s
Samuel Slater Federalist/First American Party System, Pinckney Treaty, undeclared
naval war, full funding/assumption
65. 1930s
Securities and Exchange Commission, Neutrality acts, court packing scheme, “share
the wealth”, Indian Reorganization Act
66. 1840s
Seneca Falls Convention, Maine Laws, Irish immigration, Treaty of Guadalupe-
Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso
67. 1940s
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, Ralph Bunche, George Kennan, United Nations,
Korematsu v. U.S.
68. 1890s
settlement house movement, William Jennings Bryan, Atlanta Compromise, jingoism,
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
69. 1780s
Shays’ Rebellion, Northwest Ordinance, Three-fifths Compromise, Articles of
Confederation, Annapolis Convention
70. 1880s
Social Gospel, Knights of Labor, Jim Crow Laws, A Century of Dishonor, social
Darwinism
71. 1890s Spanish-American War, Booker T. Washington, Gospel of Wealth, yellow journalism,
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
72. 1900s
spheres of influence, Big Stick Policy, Lochner v. New York, Gentlemen’s
Agreement, muckrakers
73. 1760s
Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements, Pontiac’s
Rebellion, Townshend Acts
74. 1980s supply-side economics, Iran-Contra, Geraldine Ferraro, Oliver North, “evil empire”
75. 1770s
Tea Act, Boston Massacre, Gaspee Affair, First/Second Continental Congress, Crisis
papers
76. 1870s
the Grange, Credit Moblier Scandal, long drives, Horatio Alger, Chief Joseph
77. 1900s Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Emilio Aguinaldo, Pure Food and
Drug Act, Anthracite Coal Strike
78. 1650-1700s Trade and Navigation Acts, Bacon’s Rebellion, King Phillip’s War, Salutary
neglect, Halfway Covenant
79. 1830s
Trail of Tears, Dorothea Dix, nullification, William Lloyd Garrison/Liberator,
Worcester v. Georgia
80. 1810s
Treaty of Ghent, Hartford Convention, Adams-Onis Treaty, War Hawks, American
System
81. 1910s
Treaty of Versailles, Federal Trade Commission, irreconcilables, Keating-Owen Child
Labor Act, Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
82. 1910s
triple wall of privilege, Sussex/Arabic Pledges, Food Administration, Zimmerman
Note (Telegram)
83. 1910s Underwood-Simmons Tariff, Bull Moose Party, Federal Reserve Act, “he kept us out
of war”, Triangle Shirtwaist fire
84. 1910s Volstead Act, Woodrow Wilson, reservationists, Fourteen Points, insurgents revolt
85. 1960s
Voting Rights Act, Barry Goldwater, Rachel Carson (Silent Spring), Cuban Missile
Crisis, Vietnamization, (Guam/Nixon Doctrine)
86. 1970s War Powers Act, Equal Rights Amendment, OPEC, Helsinki Accords, Kent State
87. 1830s Whigs/2nd American Party System, Apologist’s view of slavery, Force Act,
Independent Treasury, Specie Circular
88. 1890s
William Randolph Hearst, Pullman Strike, J.P. Morgan, Cross of Gold speech, Plessy
v. Ferguson
89. 1930s Works Progress Administration (WPA), cash and carry, sit-down strike, John Steinbeck
(Grapes of Wrath), Social Security
90. 1600-1650s
indentured servants, Mayflower Compact, Roger Williams, Great Puritan
Migration, House of Burgesses
91. 1860s Seward’s Folly, sharecropping, Tenure of Office Act, redemption (redeemers),
scalawags