Unit Overview: Road to Revolution, Revolutionary War, & New Nation Chapter 5, 6, and 7
These are some of the people, places and things you need to know by the end of the unit. Do not rely solely on the list below.
William PittGen. Edward Braddock
Gen. James Wolfe
Albany Plan of Union
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Paxton Boys
Regulator Movements
George Grenville
Currency Act (1764)
Sugar Act (1764)
Non-importation Associations
Stamp Act (1765)
Quartering Act (1765)
Vice-Admiralty Courts
Patrick Henry
James Otis
Stamp Act Congress
Thomas Hutchinson / Sons of Liberty
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Act (1767)
Radical Whig Ideology
Writs of Assistance
Restraining Act (1767)
John Dickinson and Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Massachusetts Circular Letter
“Boston Massacre” (1770)
The Gaspée incident (1772)
Sam Adams and Sons of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence
Lord North
Tea Act (1773)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts 1774
Quebec Act (1774) / First Continental Congress
Galloway Plan
Suffolk Resolves
Continental Association
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
Thomas Paine
Richard Henry Lee
Robert Morris
Valley Forge
Marquis de LaFayette
Baron von Steuben
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Lord North
John Locke
Important battles from the War
Newburgh Conspiracy
The Critical Period
Robert MorrisNorthwest Ordinance
Shays’s Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Constitutional Convention
James Madison
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut or Great Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Federalists and Anti-federalists / The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
Judiciary Act of 1789
VA Declaration of Rights
VA Statute of Religious Freedom
Bill of Rights
Washington’s Cabinet
Report on the Public Credit
Assumption Plan
National Bank
Strict and Loose Interpretation / “Necessary and Proper” clause
Tariffs
French Revolution
Proclamation of Neutrality
Jay’s Treaty
Whiskey Rebellion
Pinckney’s Treaty
Battle of Fallen Timbers and “Mad” Anthony Wayne
Treaty of Greenville
Neutrality Proclamation
Citizen Genet
Washington’s Farewell Address
Questions and Themes for Unit Two: Independence & Constitution
By the end of this unit, through reading, homework, and class discussion we will have covered these questions and topics. Keep this list at the back of your mind as you study and read throughout the unit. Be prepared to discuss these questions in class. This list will also be a good review sheet when you study for the AP exam.
Different arguments from the American and British perspectives for what caused the war
The role of the French and Indian War in leading to the Revolution
The interrelationships regarding cause and effect for British laws and American reactions
The intellectual arguments put forth by such men as Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson to justify revolution
Historians’ different interpretations of the Revolution
Extent to which the Revolution was a radical or a conservative change
The development of a sense of unity among the colonists
The advantages and disadvantages each side brought to the war
Analysis of why the Americans won the Revolution
Economic and social changes brought forth by the Revolution