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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 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]
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)
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.
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 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.
The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781–1789. 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.
1789: George Washington is elected the first President of the United States. Inaugurated on April 30, he serves until 1797. 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen adopted. 1789: Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis. 1789–1799: French Revolution. Napoleon at the Bridge of the Arcole.