Decade by Decade Matching (Unit 3-9) 

Match the decades with the facts

Decades:

____ 1760s

____ 1770s

____ 1780s

____ 1790s

____ 1800s

____ 1810s

____ 1820s

____ 1830s

____ 1840s

____ 1850s

____ 1860s

____ 1870s

____ 1880s

____ 1890s

____ 1900s

____ 1910s

____ 1920s

____ 1930s

____ 1940s

____ 1950s

____ 1960s

____ 1970s

____ 1980s

____ 1990s

____ 2000s

Facts:

1. Marshall Plan, NATO, Taft-Hartley Act, Fair Deal, Truman Doctrine, and Japanese Internment

2. Freedmen’s Bureau, Redeemers, Tilden-Haynes, Railway Strikes, and sharecropping

3. Louisiana Purchase, embargo, Lewis and Clark, Marbury v. Madison, and impressment

4. Star Wars program, Iran-Contra Affair, Reaganomics, glasnost and perestroika, Tiananmen Square, and “evil empire”

5. Square Deal, Roosevelt Corollary, Anthracite Coal Strike, Gentlemen’s Agreement, and Northern Securities

6. Battle of Saratoga, Intolerable Acts, Gaspee Affair, Common Sense, and Declaration of Independence

7. Kansas-Nebraska Act, Ostend Manifesto, Opening of Japan by Perry, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and Know-nothing Party

8. Corrupt Bargain, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, South Carolina Exposition, and Tariff of Abominations

9. Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, non-importation agreement, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Proclamation Act, and Treaty of Paris

10. National Labor Regulations Act, AAA, “share the wealth”, cash and carry, and Social Security Act

11. Pendleton Act, Chinese Exclusion Act, Mugwumps, Haymarket Incident, and ICC

12. XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, First Bank of the US, Jay Treaty, and Whiskey Rebellion

13. Manifest Destiny, Seneca Falls Convention, 54 40 or Fight, Mexican-American War, Free-Soil Party

14. 9/11 Bombings, invasion of Iraq, Obamacare, the Great Recession, and Tea Party

15. Northwest Ordinance, Constitutional Convention, Shay’s Rebellion, ⅗ Compromise, and Articles of Confederation

16. Washington Naval Conference, Return to Normalcy, Scopes Trial, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Quota System

17. Plessy v Ferguson, new immigrants, Homestead and Pullman strikes, Spanish-American War, and Sherman Antitrust Act

18. NAFTA, “dot com” boom, Impeachment, Persian Gulf War, and “don’t ask, don’t tell”

19. 14th Amendment, Tenure of Office Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Antietam, and Homestead Act

20. Gag rule, Bank War, Nullification, Second Great Awakening, and Nat Turner’s Rebellion

21. Triple Wall of Privilege, “He kept us at war”, reservationists, Federal Trade Commission Act, and 17th amendment

22. Era of Good feeling, American System, Erie Canal, Adams-Onis Treaty, and McCulloch v Maryland

23. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Army-McCarthy Hearings, Levittown, Baby Boom, Mutually Assured Destruction, Sputnik, and Brown v. Board of education

24. Stonewall Inn Riot, Tet Offensive, MLK Assassination, Moon Landing, Cuban Missile Crisis, Counterculture Movement, and War on Poverty

25. Vietnamization, Watergate Scandal, OPEC embargo, Pentagon Papers, Fall of Saigon, Iran Hostage Crisis, and Roe v. Wade

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