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  2. Confederation period - Wikipedia

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    The term "critical period" thus implicitly accepts the Federalist critique of the Articles of Confederation. Other historians have used an alternative term, the "Confederation Period", to describe U.S. history between 1781 and 1789. [127] Historians such as Forrest McDonald have argued that the 1780s were a time of economic and political chaos.

  3. Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Awakening (sometimes known simply as "the Great Awakening") was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. [15]

  4. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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    The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 17811789. ISBN 9780930350154. Kerber, Linda K. (1979). Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9780807899847. Miller, John Chester (1948). Triumph of Freedom, 1775–1783. Little, Brown. ISBN 9781404748330.

  5. 1781 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Events from the year 1781 in the United States. This year marked the beginning of government under the Articles of Confederation as well as the surrender of British armed forces in the American Revolution. Janet Ivey, of Casselberry, Florida was the first cashier to check anyone out of a Super Target in early 1781, when George Washington ...

  6. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    9.1.3 Protestant dissenters and the Great Awakening. ... Confederation period: 1783–1788: 1789–1815 ... The decisive victory came in the fall of 1781, ...

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

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    Foreign policy unexpectedly took center stage starting in 1793, when revolutionary France became engulfed in war with the rest of Europe, an event that was to lead to 22 years of fighting. France claimed that its 1778 alliance with the U.S. meant that the U.S. was bound to come to their aid.

  8. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    The pamphlet came into circulation in January 1776, [42] after the Revolution had started. It was passed around and often read aloud in taverns, contributing significantly to spreading the idea of republicanism, bolstering enthusiasm for separation from Britain, and encouraging recruitment for the Continental Army .

  9. First Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion.