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** The American Revolution **
 * Homework—Unit 2 **

Powerpoint--People of the American Revolution:

Powerpoint--Events of American Revolution:

Unit Two Terms
 * 1) Writs of assistance
 * 2) Albany Plan of Union
 * 3) James Otis
 * 4) Pontiac’s Rebellion
 * 5) Proclamation of 1763
 * 6) Navigation Acts
 * 7) Grenville’s rogram
 * 8) Sugar Act, 1764
 * 9) Currency Act, 1764
 * 10) Admiralty courts
 * 11) Non-importation agreements
 * 12) Stamp Act
 * 13) Virginia Resolves
 * 14) Stamp Act Congress, 1765
 * 15) Patrick Henry
 * 16) Sons of Liberty
 * 17) Internal taxes
 * 18) External taxes
 * 19) Declaratory Act, 1766
 * 20) Quartering Act
 * 21) Townshend Acts
 * 22) John Dickinson, “Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania”
 * 23) Samuel Adams
 * 24) The Association
 * 25) Repeal of the Townshend Acts
 * 26) Boston Massacre, 1770
 * 27) Crispus Attucks
 * 28) John Adams
 * 29) Battle of the Alamance
 * 30) Gaspee incident
 * 31) Governor Thomas Hutchinson
 * 32) Committtees of correspondence
 * 33) Lord North
 * 34) Tea Act
 * 35) East India Company
 * 36) Boston Tea Party, 1773
 * 37) Coercive Acts
 * 38) Intolerable Acts
 * 39) Boston Port Act
 * 40) Massachusetts Government Act
 * 41) Quebec Act
 * 42) First Continental Congress, 1774
 * 43) Suffolk Resolves
 * 44) Lexington and Concord 1775
 * 45) Paul Revere, William Dawes
 * 46) Second Continental Congress
 * 47) George Washington
 * 48) Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
 * 49) Olive Branch Petition
 * 50) Thomas Paine, Common Sense
 * 51) Natural righs philosophy
 * 52) John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
 * 53) George III
 * 54) Richard Henry Lee’s Resolution of June 7, 1776: “these unted colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.”
 * 55) Committee on Independence: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston
 * 56) July 4, 1776
 * 57) Declaration of Independence (read it and know ideas in it)
 * Revolutionary War: **

John Adams Abigail Adams Mercy Otis Warren Edmund Burke Lafayette George Rogers Clark Benedict Arnold Robert Morris John Paul Jones Conway cabal French Alliance of 1778, reasons for it Major battles: Saratoga, Valley Forge, Yorktown Lord Cornwallis Treaty of Paris, 1783 and its negotiators: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay Social impact of the war Primogeniture, entail Disestablishment, Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom New state constitutions Newburgh conspiracy

=**Governing:**= Articles of Confederation: powers, weaknesses, successes

Constitution

Constitutional Convention, conflicts and compromises

Ratification of the Constitution


 * Some major themes: **

Unity and disunity in the colonies

Moving from British subjects to Americans

Staging a revolution vs. building a government

Slavery and women in the colonies

American loyalists—who and why

Class division in the revolution

Class division in the quest for a constitution

Effect of the Enlightenment on the Revolution