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THEMATIC UNDERSTANDING

Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800

1760 1763 France and Spain cede all their territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the first Treaty of Paris
1820
1800
1780
AMERICA IN THE WORLD 1778–1779 U.S. alliances with France and Spain virtually ensure a Patriot victory
1775–1783 American Revolutionary War

1793–1798 The French Revolution divides Americans
1812 The War of 1812
1823 The Monroe Doctrine
asserts American
leadership in the
Western Hemisphere

POLITICS AND POWER 1774 First Continental Congress debates responses to the Coercive Acts
1765 Stamp Act Congress petitions the king

1775–1781 Second Continental Congress organizes for war
1776 Declaration of Independence
1787 U.S. Constitution drafted
1790 Indians form Western Confederacy
1796–1815 First national parties:
Federalists and Republicans

ECONOMY 1765–1774 Patriots mount three boycotts of British goods

1790–1792 Conflict over Alexander Hamilton’s economic policies
1791 Bank of the United States founded
1794 Whiskey producers rebel against taxes
1794 Invention of cotton gin stimulates boom in cotton production
1807 Jefferson enacts embargo against U.S. shipping
to foreign ports to pressure Britain and France to
recognize U.S. neutrality

SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1779 Judith Sargent Murray publishes “On the Equality of the Sexes”
1765–1780 The idea of natural rights challenges the institution of chattel slavery

1791 Bill of Rights ratified; guarantees freedom of assembly, worship, speech, press
1793–1803 Thousands of refugees from the Haitian
Revolution arrive in American ports
1798 Sedition Act limits freedom of the press

GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1770–1781 Ohio Indians resist Anglo-American expansion
1763–1775 The trans-Appalachian west attracts the interest of settlers and investors

1784–1789 Western land ordinances and sham Indian treaties open the Ohio
country to settlement
1803 The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of the
United States
1804–1806 Lewis and Clark explore the far west

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