The 1990s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Chronology1990: Robert Bly's Iron John is published, giving a boost to the growing men's movement.1990: January 1 Maryland becomes the first state to ban the sale of cheap handguns known as Saturday Night Specials.1990: November 1 Under pressure from environmental groups, McDonald's agrees to replace polystyrene containers with paper wrappers. Source for ...
The 1990s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Overview The 1990s was a decade of extremes and contradictions. Americans built bigger and more elaborate homes and drove more expensive automobiles, then worked longer hours to pay for them. Americans spent more, borrowed more, and went more deeply into debt. They drank more coffee, smoked more cigars, and turned gambling into a national pastime ...
1990s: The Way We Lived A strange thing happened in the 1990s, something that had not happened in nearly a hundred years: a technological revolution reoriented the entire economy and revolutionized the way people thought and the way they lived. The last time it had happened was at the turn of the twentieth century. Then, the spread of the automobile and its modern manufacturing processes ...
In the 1990s, however, gun-control legislation became more quarrelsome and less extensive, and Americans witnessed a rash of mass shootings during the decade, many involving teenagers and children. Although juvenile crime declined throughout the decade, the number of youths killed by gunfire increased an alarming 153 percent.
The 1990s Government, Politics, and Law: Overview War, scandal, political reform, terrorism, and civil rights marked the 1990s. The cold war (the period of heightened tension after World War II between the former Soviet Union and the United States) ended with the collapse of communism early in the decade.