APUSH: UNIT 3 OVERVIEW
Rising Nation: 1776-1824
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 9-12
Key Concepts
10. The United States developed the world’s first modern mass democracy and celebrated a
new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and
to reform its institutions to match them.
11. Developments in technology, agriculture, and commerce precipitated profound changes in
U.S. settlement patterns, regional identities, gender and family relations, political power,
and distribution of consumer goods.
12. U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself
from European conflicts shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and
private initiatives.
UNIT 2 VOCABULARY: NEED TO KNOW!
RED ALERT! GO TO THE NEXT PAGE FOR AN IMPORTANT
EXPLANATION OF THE UNIT 3 CAUSE AND EFFECT WORK!
Utilize the following as you read for Unit 3. Be prepared for in-class quizzes and complete C and E paragraphs
for those that are marked with an * (12 of them). Those will be due on Tuesday 4 November.
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
Society of the Cincinnati
disestablished
Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom
civic virtue
*Articles of Confederation
Old Northwest
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
*Shays’ Rebellion
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
common law
civil law
3/5 Compromise
*anti-federalists vs. federalists
The Federalist
Lord Sheffield
Daniel Shays
Patrick Henry
Bill of Rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
funding at par
assumption
tariff
excise tax
*Bank of the United States
Whiskey Rebellion
Reign of Terror
Neutrality Proclamation
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Treaty of Greenville
*Jay’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty
Farewell Address
XYZ Affair
Convention of 1800
Alien Laws
Sedition Act
*Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Louis XVI
Edmond Genet
Little Turtle
“Mad Anthony” Wayne
John Jay
John Adams
Talleyrand
Revolution of 1800
patronage
Judiciary Act of 1801
midnight judges
*Marbury v. Madison
Tripolitan War
*Louisiana Purchase
Corps of Discovery
Orders in Council
Impressment
Chesapeake Affair
*Embargo Act
Non-Intercourse Act
Macon’s Bill No. 2
war hawks
Battle of Tippecanoe
Thomas Jefferson
Sally Hemings
Albert Gallatin
John Marshall
Samuel Chase
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert R. Livingston
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Aaron Burr
Tecumseh
James Madison
Tenskwatawa (“the Prophet”)
War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Rush-Bagot agreement
Tariff of 1816
American System
Era of Good Feelings
panic of 1819
Land Act of 1820
Tallmadge Amendment
peculiar institution
*Missouri Compromise
*McCulloch v. Maryland
loose construction
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Anglo-American Convention
Florida Purchase Treaty (also
called Adams-Onis Treaty)
*Monroe Doctrine
Russo-American Treaty
Isaac Brock
Oliver Hazard Perry
Thomas Macdonough
Francis Scott Key
James Monroe
George Canning
History is the
interpretation of
past events with
an eye on the
present and a
vision of the
future!
THESIS STATEMENTS!!!
For this round of the Cause and Effect Paragraphs, you will need to produce a THESIS
STATEMENT for 6 of them (your choice). The thesis statement should be included as a
separate sentence at the conclusion of your paragraph (label the thesis). Remember that
a thesis statement is an ASSERTION YOU CAN DEFEND WITH CREDIBLE HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE. BE BOLD! BE AGGRESSIVE! BE CREATIVE!
“LET ME IN FOUNDERS! I WANT
TO BE PART
OF YOUR WORLD!”
“YOU’RE ON OUR
TURF NOW BABY!
WATCH YOUR STEP!”