In the 1780s Hall approached the legislature once again requesting funds for voluntary emigration to Africa.

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Category: Films set in the 1780s

From the 1780s, the carding machines were set up in mills in the north of England and mid Wales.

Category: Films set in the 1780s

By the late 1780s many companies began to set up their operations in the new settlements in the Central and Western New York.

Sunday schools were first set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children on their one day off from the factory.

The islands were settled by American Loyalists in the late 1780s who set cotton plantations employing over 1, 000 slaves.

The islands were settled by American Loyalists in the late 1780s who set cotton plantations employing over 1, 000 slaves.

The islands were settled by American Loyalists in the late 1780s who set cotton plantations employing over 1, 000 slaves.

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Category: Films set in the 1780s

Stanford University historian Jack N. Rakove stated that " The voluminous records we have for the constitutional debates of the late 1780s contain no significant references to the Iroquois " and stated that there are ample European precedents to the democratic institutions of the United States.

Clementi's sonatas for the piano circulated widely, and he became the most successful composer in London during the 1780s.

Printed calico was imported into the United States from Lancashire in the 1780s, and here a linguistic separation occurred, while Europe maintained the word calico for the fabric, in the States it was used to refer to the printed design.

* Steam power – The improved steam engine invented by James Watt and patented in 1775 was at first mainly used to power pumps for pumping water out of mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power other types of machines.

Webster also played a critical role lobbying individual states throughout the country during the 1780s to pass the first American copyright laws, which were expected to have distinct nationalistic implications for the infant nation.

In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan, before moving to settle at the mouth of the Chicago River.

Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions ( especially their style of music and furniture ), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s.

" Originally used for moving coal on and off barges, " loose boxes " were used to containerize coal from the late 1780s, at places like the Bridgewater Canal.

By the late 1780s, trade relations had opened with the Tlingits, and in 1799 the Russian-American Company ( RAC ) was formed in order to monopolize the fur trade, also serving as an imperialist vehicle for the Russification of Alaska Natives.

In the 1780s, groups of Stockbridge Indians moved from Massachusetts to a new location among the Oneida people in western New York, who were granted a reservation for their service to the Patriots, out of their former territory of.

* Cato the anti-Federalist, pseudonym for an American author of anti-Federalist articles in the late 1780s, probably the politician George Clinton ( vice president )

As early as the 1780s, Leicester's mills churned out one-third of American hand cards, which were tools for straightening fibers before spinning thread and weaving cloth.

In the 1780s they obtained a deed for land from the Chippewa Indians.

In the 1780s, a road was built through the gap to help provide protection for travelers migrating from East Tennessee to the Nashville area.

Revolutionary War veterans given land grants by the State of North Carolina for services rendered during the war followed in the 1780s.

Historians think it more likely that the community and river were both named for John Buchannon, a missionary to the area in the 1780s.

A significant number of these members also belonged to Masonic lodges, which were introduced to Mexico in the 1780s and they found a voice when Manuel Cordorniu founded the newspaper El Sol, essentially becoming the in-house publication for the Scottish Rite lodge in their struggle against Iturbide.

The modern movement for women's suffrage originated in France in the 1780s and 1790s, where Antoine Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges advocated women's suffrage in national elections.

Classical costumes had long been worn by fashionable ladies posing " as " some figure from Greek or Roman myth in a portrait ( in particular there was a rash of such portraits of the young " model " Emma, Lady Hamilton from the 1780s ), but such costumes were only worn for the portrait sitting and masquerade balls until the Revolutionary period, and perhaps, like other exotic styles, as undress at home.

Thomas Jefferson, in the 1780s, awaited the fall of the Spanish empire: “… until our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece .” In turn, historian Sidney Lens notes that “ the urge for expansionat the expense of other peoplesgoes back to the beginnings of the United States itself .”

The new nation previously had faced a depression in the late 1780s, following the war of independence, which had led directly to the establishment of the dollar and, perhaps indirectly, to the calls for a Constitutional Convention.

The marble was quarried for the Federal buildings in lower Manhattan when New York was the Capital of the United States in the 1780s.

When the members formed the White Conduit Club for cricket in the early 1780s they played at White Conduit Fields in Islington but they soon became dissatisfied with the surroundings and complained that the site was " too public ".

The foundations for the Corps of Discovery were lain when Thomas Jefferson met John Ledyard to discuss a proposed expedition to the Pacific Northwest in the 1780s.

In the late 1780s, he completed the book for which he became most famous, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, etc ..