What was the biggest decade in American History?

[charlie and algernon]

What was the biggest decade in American history, in terms of individual events and movements?


1770's - Dec of Independence, Revolutionary War

1860's - Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln Assassination, Reconstruction

1890's - Second Industrial Revolution leads to major corporations and monopolies in steel and rail industries

1910's - World War I, Women's Sufferage Movement gains steam

1930's - Great Depression, new Deal

1940's - World War II, Pearl Harbor, FDR's Unprecedented 3rd and 4th Terms

1960's - JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations, Man Landing on Moon, Civil Rights Act, Vietman and Anti-War movement explodes

1970's - Watergate, Nixon resigns, Social and Sexual Revolution, Vietnam ends

2000's - 9/11, Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, First African-American President, technology explodes in leaps and bounds

[dhpgetsit]

1. Difficult choice.

Without reading the choices the 1860s came to mind first so that is my choice.
Right off the top of my head.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. 1910's

Go back and read the 12 points of light. League of Nations.

There is so much b.s. from 6 months in Versaille that have us in the place where we are at today. . .

[Uben]

3. Which one "decayed" the most?

2000's

[endless october]

4. 1770s, 1910s, and 1930s, were monumental decades.

but if i had to be honest, the 1860s are probably the biggest. the country was divided, rejoined, and the slavery issue was finally resolved.

[annabanana]

5. apples & oranges. . . . n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

6. The next one.

2010's

[cobalt1999]

7. From the Spanish American War 1898 thru the end of TR's Presidency.

The US went from a regional power to a global power. The make over from an agrarian society to a industrial one flowered, airplanes, Ford Model T's, electric lighting became common in cities, steam ships replaced sail, and the US took over the Panama Canal (the Apollo program of that age).

[charlie and algernon]

8. hmm, that's a great choice

really the result of the Second Industrial Revolution and the explosion of steel in society

[TahitiNut]

9. Why do we measure 'importance' and structure the history books around death?

There's no question that the '60s' was my most formative, traumatic, and "fun-filled" decade ... after all, graduating high school, being a sideboy for JFK, graduating college, living in the segregated South, getting married, going to Viet Nam, "coming home" -- that's a lot of shit to digest. And then some. But it wasn't all about death.

Dunno. :shrug: