Decade Match Unit 1-5 

Match the facts with the decade

Years

____ 1580s

____ 1600s

____ 1730s/1740s

____ 1750s

____ 1760s

____ 1770s

____ 1780s

____ 1790s

____ 1800s

____ 1810s

____ 1820s

____ 1830s

____ 1840s

____ 1850s

____ 1860s

____ 1870s

Facts:

1. Freedmen’s Bureau, Redeemers, Hayes/Tilden Election, Railway Strikes, and sharecropping

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

3. Spanish Armada, Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke Colony, and “Lost Colony”

4. Battle of Saratoga, Intolerable Acts, Gaspee Affair, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Boston Massacre, and Articles of Confederation

5. First slaves brought to Virginia, House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, Bacon’s rebellion, and Salem Witch Trials

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

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

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

9. XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, First Bank of the U.S., Jay Treaty, and Whiskey Rebellion

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

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

12. First Great Awakening, Georgia colony founded, Molasses Act, Trial of John Peter Zenger, and Walking Purchase

13. Fourteenth Amendment, Tenure of Office Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Antietam, and Homestead Act

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

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

16. Albany Plan of Union, start of French and Indian War, “Join or Die” cartoon

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