APUSH DECADE ASSOCIATION
Place the correct decade or group of years beside each group of specific factual information. Note that some items can fit into more than one decade so be sure to read through and consider the entire group to pick the best answer for all the items in the group. Don't simply go through the exercise mindlessly. Think about
what each item is
how it relates to that particular decade
what other terms could be associated with it
use the following groups of years in place of decades for the colonial period:
Time Periods:1600-1650
1650-1700
1700-1750s
After the 1750s, use normal decades
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_____American Colonization Society, Missouri Compromise, Era of Good Feelings, Tariff of
Abominations, South Carolina Exposition
_____American Federal of Labor, Dawes Act, Alfred Thayer Mahan, horizontal
integration/vertical integration, Haymarket Square Incident
_____Bank of the U.S., Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions, XYZ Affair, Whiskey Rebellion, Jay
Treaty
_____Bank war, spoils system/rotation in office, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism,
gag rule
_____Battle of Saratoga, Thomas Paine/Common Sense, Coercive/Intolerable Acts, Olive
Branch Petition, Boston Tea Party
_____Thomas Nast, Henry George (Progress and Poverty), Munn v. Illinois
_____Freedmen's Bureau, Chautauqua movement, Battle of Little Bighorn, "waving the bloody
shirt," Boss Tweed
_____Connecticut/Great Compromise, Virginia-New Jersey Plans, Barbary Pirates, Treaty of Paris
_____Cult of Domesticity/True womanhood, Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, Lucretia Mott,
Neal Dow
_____Dred Scott v. Sanford, Fugitive Slave Law, Gadsden Purchase, Bleeding Kansas,
Sumner-Brooks affair
_____Emancipation Proclamation, Trent Affair, Homestead Act, Battle of Antietam, Crittenden
Compromise
_____Freeport Doctrine, Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Uncle Tom's Cabin,
Nashville Convention
_____French and Indian War, Albany Plan, mercantilism, salutary neglect, William Pitt
_____Hinton Helper/Impending Crisis, Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty, Ostend
Manifesto, Lecompton Constitution
_____John C. Calhoun, abolitionists, Charles River Bridge case, DeTocqueville/Democracy in
America, removal of national bank deposits
_____Know Nothing/American Party, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican party/3rd American
Party system
_____Lewis and Clark, Orders in Council, yeomen farmers, Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion,
judicial review
_____loose/strict constructionism, cotton gin/Eli Whitney, Citizen Genet, Bill of Rights, Alien
and Sedition Acts
_____Marbury v. Madison, Embargo Act, Louisiana Purchase, impressment, interchangeable
parts
_____Seneca Falls Convention, Maine Laws, Irish immigration, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo,
Wilmot Proviso
_____Shay's Rebellion, Northwest Ordinance, Three-fifths Compromise, Articles ofConfederation, Annapolis Convention
____Knights of Labor, Jim Crow Laws, A Century of Dishonor, social Darwinism,
social gospel
_____Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreement s, Pontiac's Rebellion,
Townshend Acts
_____Tea Act, Boston Massacre, Gaspee Affair, First/Second Continental congresses
_____trade and Navigation Acts, Bacon's Rebellion, King Philip's War, salutary neglect,
Halfway Covenant
_____Trail of Tears, Dorothea Dix, nullification, William Lloyd Garrison/Liberator, Worcester
v. Georgia
_____Treaty of Ghent, Hartford Convention, Adams-Onis Treaty, War Hawks, American
System
_____Whigs, apologist's view of slavery, Force Act, Independent Treasury, Specie Circular
_____Monroe Doctrine, corrupt bargain, Erie Canal, Lowell/Waltham System/Lowell girls,
Gibbons v. Ogden
_____Morrill Land Grant Act, National Banking Act, nature of the union, 13th, 14th & 15th
amendments, radical reconstruction
_____open range, Interstate Commerce Act, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller
_____Oregon Territory, John Slidell, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Horace Mann, Webster-
Ashburton Treaty
_____Peter Zenger Trial, Great Awakening, James Oglethorpe, George Whitefield, Jonathan
Edwards
_____Pilgrims/Separatists, Anne Hutchinson, headright system, Freedom of conscience,
"city on a hill"
_____Mexican-American war, Mormons, free soilers, American Anti-Slavery Society
_____Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Paxton Boys, Sugar Act, no taxation without representation
_____Samuel Slater, Federalist (party), Pinckney Treaty, undeclared naval war, full funding/
assumption