Unit Two: Revolution and Constitution (1763-1796)
MAPS: British America, Revolutionary battlefields, the United States 1783
geography
TERMS:
Appalachians, ‘Proclamation Line’, Cumberland Gap, Boston, Philadelphia, New York
Hudson River, Delaware River, Mississippi River, Potomac River, seaboard, piedmont
English, German, Scots-Irish, African, Hessian, Mohawk, Seneca, French
the people
Sons of Liberty,
Tory/loyalist, patriot,
federalist, anti-federalist
George III, Louis XVI
the leaders
Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Horatio Gates, Nathaniel Greene, John Paul Jones
the Howe brothers, John Burgoyne, Lord Cornwallis, Joseph Brandt
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Edmund Randolph, William Patterson, George Mason, Patrick Henry
John Jay, Henry Knox
mercantilist restrictions, colonial smuggling, ‘Homespun Movement’
the economy
new technology
Revolutionary War debt, Hamilton’s Plan, the Bank of the United States, The Whiskey Rebellion
Pennsylvania long rifle
western settlement, seaboard vs. frontier, exercising the “rights of Englishmen”
social issues
Thomas Paine
Common Sense, The Crisis
Shays Rebellion, propertied classes vs. renters and working classes; abolition of slavery
The Federalist Papers,
Proclamation Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress, Townsend Acts, “Boston Massacre”,
Tea Act, “Boston Tea Party”, Coercive Acts (‘Intolerable Acts)
government action
1st/2nd Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence
Lexington and Concord, Brooklyn Heights, Trenton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Cowpens, Yorktown
The Articles of Confederation, Treaty of Paris 1783, Northwest Ordinance 1785
Constitutional Convention, Virginia Plan/New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise
The Bill of Rights, unwritten constitution
Washington’s precedents, Proclamation of Neutrality (1793), Jay’s Treaty (1795)
Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
watershed event
Implementation of the Constitution plan of national government by the
Washington Administration