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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.
The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) entered a new era with the death of Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg monarch, who died childless in 1700. The War of the Spanish Succession was fought between proponents of a Bourbon prince, Philip of Anjou, and the Austrian Habsburg claimant, Archduke Charles.
First Great Awakening (1730s–1740s) American Revolution (1775–1783) Confederation period (1781-1789) Federalist Era (1788-1800) Second Great Awakening (c. 1800 – c. 1840) First-wave feminism (19th century–early 20th century) Manifest Destiny (c. 1812 – c. 1860) Era of Good Feelings (c. 1817 – c. 1825)
Spain provided financing for the final siege of Yorktown in 1781 with a collection of gold and silver in Havana, then Spanish Cuba. [1] Spain was allied with France through the Bourbon Family Compact and the Revolution was an opportunity to confront their common enemy, Great Britain.
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
9.1.3 Protestant dissenters and the Great Awakening. ... Confederation period: 1783–1788: 1789–1815 ... The decisive victory came in the fall of 1781, ...
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]
Jonathan Edwards preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a key moment of the First Great Awakening. 1745 – New Englanders take Louisbourg. 1746 – Princeton University founded, with Jonathan Dickinson as its first president. 1747 – Founding of the Ohio Company. 1748 – Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ending the War of the Austrian ...