Period 3 Vocabulary
Part 1
1. The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
2. The Peace of Paris of 1763
3. Chief Pontiac’s Rebellion
4. The Proclamation of 1763
5. The Navigation Acts
6. Salutary Neglect
7. Stamp Act of 1765
8. Taxation without Representation
9. Virtual Representation
10. Stamp Act Congress, 1765
11. Non-Importation Agreements
12. Sons of Liberty
13. Declaratory Act, 1766
14. Townshend Acts, 1767
15. Boston Massacre, 1770
16. Committees of Correspondence, 1772
17. Tea Act
18. Boston Tea Party, 1773
19. Coercive/Intolerable Acts, 1774
20. First Continental Congress
21. Declaration of Rights
22. Lexington and Concord, April 1775
23. Minute Men
24. Hessians
25. Loyalists
26. Marquis de Lafayette
27. Second Continental Congress
28. Bunker Hill
29. Olive Branch Petition, 1775
30. Thomas Paine and Common Sense, 1776
31. Declaration of Independence
32. Patriots/Whigs
33. Tories
34. General Benedict Arnold
35. Yorktown, 1781
36. Treaty of Paris, 1783
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Part 2
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays’ Rebellion
Alexander Hamilton’s role in calling the
Philadelphia Convention
Ben Franklin’s role at the convention
James Madison and the Constitution
The Virginia (large state) plan
The New Jersey (small state) plan
The Great Compromise
Electoral College
The Three-Fifths Compromise
The checks and balances system
The Federalists
The Antifederalists
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Ratification of the Constitution
Adding the Bill of Rights
The Judiciary Act of 1789
Funding at par
Hamilton’s protective tariff
The Whiskey Tax
The Bank of the United States
The elastic clause
Implied powers
The Whiskey Rebellion
Impact of the French Revolution on the
United States
Citizen Genet
The Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
Jay’s Treaty with Britain, 1794
Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain, 1795
Washington’s two-term tradition
Washington’s Farewell Address, 1797
XYZ Affair, 1797
Alien Laws, 1798
Sedition Act, 1798
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798-99
Compact theory
Nullification
Revolution of 1800