Unit Overview: Road to Revolution, Revolutionary War ...



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 Pitt |Sons of Liberty |First Continental Congress |

|Gen. Edward Braddock |Declaratory Act (1766) |Galloway Plan |

|Gen. James Wolfe |Townshend Act (1767) |Suffolk Resolves |

|Albany Plan of Union |Radical Whig Ideology |Continental Association |

|Pontiac’s Rebellion |Writs of Assistance |Declaration of Rights and Grievances |

|Proclamation of 1763 |Restraining Act (1767) |Second Continental Congress |

|Treaty of Paris (1763) |John Dickinson and Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer |Olive Branch Petition |

|Paxton Boys |Massachusetts Circular Letter |Thomas Paine |

|Regulator Movements |“Boston Massacre” (1770) |Richard Henry Lee |

|George Grenville |The Gaspée incident (1772) |Robert Morris |

|Currency Act (1764) |Sam Adams and Sons of Liberty |Valley Forge |

|Sugar Act (1764) |Committees of Correspondence |Marquis de LaFayette |

|Non-importation Associations |Lord North |Baron von Steuben |

|Stamp Act (1765) |Tea Act (1773) |Treaty of Paris (1783) |

|Quartering Act (1765) |Boston Tea Party (1773) |Lord North |

|Vice-Admiralty Courts |Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts 1774 |John Locke |

|Patrick Henry |Quebec Act (1774) |Important battles from the War |

|James Otis | |Newburgh Conspiracy |

|Stamp Act Congress | | |

|Thomas Hutchinson | | |

The Critical Period

|Robert Morris |The Federalist Papers |“Necessary and Proper” clause |

|Northwest Ordinance |Alexander Hamilton |Tariffs |

|Shays’s Rebellion |John Jay |French Revolution |

|Annapolis Convention |Judiciary Act of 1789 |Proclamation of Neutrality |

|Constitutional Convention |VA Declaration of Rights |Jay’s Treaty |

|James Madison |VA Statute of Religious Freedom |Whiskey Rebellion |

|Virginia Plan |Bill of Rights |Pinckney’s Treaty |

|New Jersey Plan |Washington’s Cabinet |Battle of Fallen Timbers and “Mad” Anthony Wayne |

|Connecticut or Great Compromise |Report on the Public Credit |Treaty of Greenville |

|3/5 Compromise |Assumption Plan |Neutrality Proclamation |

|Federalists and Anti-federalists |National Bank |Citizen Genet |

| |Strict and Loose Interpretation |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

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