Transcript The Decade Chart

The Decade Chart
1780-1790
By: Roslyn A. Espiritu
Foreign Policy
1780-1790
Europe
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Problems
1781-Second Battle of
Ushant
(British vs. France)
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British Won
Europe
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Problems
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Great Britain declares war on The
Netherlands in response to the Dutch
joining the League of Armed Neutrality and
for assisting French and American forces
during the American Revolution (1780)
Austria Declares War on Turkey(1788)
 Maratha War (Asia/Pacific Slide)
 British Troops surrender in Yorktown
 Invasion of Minorca(1781)
[France-Spanish vs. Britain]
{ France-Spanish won }
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Europe
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Problems
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French Revolution
(1789-1799)
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Prospects
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Serfdom abolished in Austrian
dominion
Estates General (Political reform)
Abolition of Federal System
1ST Life boat(1790)
Schiller: ’Die Rauber’ –Dramatist,
Poet & Historian)
Europe
“Estates General ”
Clergy
Nobility
The Rest of France
Europe
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Most
Important
Events/Action
French Revolution
( 1789-1799)
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Succeed to Empire Habsburg
land in 1780
(Joseph II)
Europe
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Key
People
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Joseph II
Benjamin Franklin
Benedict Arnold
Catherine II
James Watt
Prince Von Metternich
Napoleon Bonaparte
Western Hemisphere
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Problems
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Key People
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Prospects
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Most
Important
Events/Action
Last Inca Revolt (1780-1783)
Jose Gabriel
Tupac Amaru(1742- 1781)
 Defeated The Spanish
Inca Revolt
-Located in Peru
-surrounded the town of Quiquijana
-Generals Escajadalla and Landa
-Church
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Africa
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Problems
Key People
Prospect
Zong Massacre (Affair)
 Transatlantic slave trade from western
Africa, 1650-1867
 Dengue Fever
-similar to malaria
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James Gregson (Owner of the ship)
15 percent of all enslaved Africans were
church members by 1780--usually attending
the churches of their owners
Asia/Pacific
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Problems
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Maratha War(1776-82)
[First]
-series of wars between the British and the Maratha
confederacy.
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-Hindu's
the Marathi fought endless wars against the Moslem rulers of the Mogul empire
-The first war (1776-82) was a civil war that commenced when the British supported
one faction against another. As a result the British gained a small island adjacent to
Bombay.
*Second Russo-Turkish War(1787-92)
advanced into Ottoman territory ]
[Russia,
allied with Austria,
*Famine in Japan(1783)
*Arthur Phillip leaves England with a ship full of
convicts to Establish a penal colony in Australia.
*Trail of Warren Hasting
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[First Governor-General of Bengal]
ancient scripture of Hinduism and fatefully set the British position on governance
This allowed Brahmin advisors to mold the law
Asia/Pacific
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Prospects
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Russia establishes a colony
at Kodiak, Alaska
Nguyen Hue declares
himself emperor of Viet Nam
Botany Bay, Australia(1st
Penal colony)
Pitts India Act - East India Company
under government control.
Rama succeeds King Taksin of
Thailand, overthrow in a coup
d'état
Asia/Pacific
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Key
People
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Most
Important
Events/Action
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William Pitt
Arthur Phillip
Warren Hasting
Nyugen Hue
Gersaim Izmailou
Zong Massacre
British 1st fleet sails to Sydney
Harbor
Russian explorer, Gersaim
Izmailou, reaches Alaska.
Foreign Policy
Military Actions
Treaties/Agreements
Causes
Effects
Name
Results
Power
struggle
French
Revolution
Treaty
of Salbai
Ended the
Wars of
Maratha
(1782)
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Domestic Policy
1780-1790
Political
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Problems
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Revolutionary War
Begging of the Annapolis
Convention
Drafting of the Constitution of
U.S.
Raftition of Constitution
U.S. Constitution is adopted
by constutional Convention
State Legislature Approval
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Prospects
Political
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Constutional Congress
adopts the Articles of
Confederation
U.S. Congress Adopts The
Great Seal of the United
States
George Washington 1st
President (Elected)
Congressional Appointment
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is proposed at
the U.S. Congress
Political
Appointed Positions
Thomas Jefferson U.S. Secretary of State
John Jay
Samuel Osgood
Chief justice of the U.S.
U.S. Postmaster General
Edmund Randolph U.S. Attorney General
Political
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Key
People
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John Adams
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
William Pitt
James Moore
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Political
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Most
Important
Events/Action
Supreme Court Convenes
for the 1st time
 Treaty of Paris(1782)
 Inauguration Day
 Establishment of U.S.
Department of :
-Post Office Department
-Post Master General
-State (Foreign Affairs)
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Economic
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Problems
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Revolutionary Soldier were
yet to be paid
Men & women who had
loaned money & goods to
government clamored for
“reimbursement”
National Debt(1781)
Shay’s Rebellion -An armed uprising of
Massachusetts farmers begins in response to high
Debt & tax burden
Economic
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Prospects
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Dollar is unanimously
chosen as the monetary
unit of the United States
Alexander Hamilton
proposes creation of a Bank
of the United States(1790)
Morris going before
Congress to say of an
establishment of a national
mint and decimal coinage.
Economic
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Key People
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John Adams
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
William Pitt
James Moore
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Robert Morris
Economic
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Most
Important
Events/Ac
tions
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1st American Commercial
Bank opens (Bank of North
American)
1St United States Census is
authorized (Compeitted,
conducted)
Geography
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Land
 Treaty of Hopewell
Acquisitions -U.S. vs. Native Americans
[1785]
 Northern Ordiances(1787)
Transportation/C 
ommunication
Issues
Isaac Briggs & William
Longstreet patent the
steamboat
Intellectual
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Trends
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Key
people
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Development of creative and
practical inventing
All elements are composed tiny,
identical and indestructible
particles
Dalton’s law of partial pressures
Benjamin Franklin
John Dalton
Robert Morris
Social/ Cultural
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Trends
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Key people
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Newburgh Conspiracy(1783)
American writers
Farewell Address by Washington
Charter the Methodist church
(Wesley)
Washington proclaims the 1st
Thanksgiving Day (1789)
Discovery of Uranus
Abigail Adams
William Herschel
John Wesley
Demographics
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Gender
Issues
Migration/
Density
Issues
Population
Ethic
Issues
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Men and women on the
farms together
Slave Ships
2,780,400-3,929,214 (18%
black)
Religious Society of Friend
petitions U.S. Congress for
abolition for Slavery
Gnadenhutten Massacre
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