enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 1789 in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789_in_the_United_States

    January 7 – The 1789 United States presidential elections and House of Representatives elections are held. January 21 – William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston. [1]

  3. 1789 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789

    1789 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 789th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of ...

  4. History of the United States (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United...

    A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819189158. Collier, Christopher. Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780684804989.

  5. Timeline of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_American...

    The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...

  6. 1st United States Congress - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress

    July 31, 1789: Regulation of the Collection of Duties on Tonnage and Merchandise, ch.5, 1 Stat. 29, which established the United States Customs Service and its ports of entry. August 7, 1789: Department of War was established, ch. 7, 1 Stat. 49. September 2, 1789: United States Department of the Treasury was established, ch. 12, 1 Stat. 65

  7. First inauguration of George Washington - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of...

    Federal Hall, New York City, site of George Washington's first inauguration, April 30, 1789. Since nearly first light on April 30, 1789, a crowd of people had begun to gather around Washington's home, and at noon they made their way to Federal Hall by way of Queen Street and Great Dock (both now Pearl Street) and Broad Street. [7]

  8. Confederation period - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_period

    In his 1857 book, The Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams, William Henry Trescot became the first historian to apply the phrase "America's Critical Period" to the era in American history between 1783 and 1789. The phrase was popularized by John Fiske's 1888 book, The Critical Period of American History. Fiske's use ...

  9. Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_history_of...

    The emergence of a partisan press : American newspapers in the 1790s (PhD). Harvard University. Lewis, Paul. "Attaining Masculinity: Charles Brockden Brown and Woman Warriors of the 1790s." Early American Literature, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2005), pp. 37–55; Von Morze, Leonard Roy (2006).