Terms to study for 2d test

Here are some terms that you should study for the upcoming test. The IDs will be drawn directly from this list, but not all of these are necessarily of equal weight. The terms come from both the reading and the lectures. There are a few items here that we will getting to in lecture next week. Ask any questions as comments on this posting.

• French and Indian War/Seven Years War

• Pontiac's Rebellion

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act (1764)

• Grenville, George

• Barre, Isaac

• Hutchinson, Thomas

• Sons of Liberty
  

• Quartering Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• nonimportation
  

• Boston Massacre

• Tea Act

• Boston Tea Party

• "Imperial debate"

• Coercive Acts
  

• Continental Congress
  

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Jefferson, Thomas

• natural rights
• rights of English (English or British liberties)
  

• Declaration of Independence

• Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

• Battle of Saratoga
  

• Loyalists
  

• Founders: know generally their backgrounds, the roles they played (including the major offices they may have held & the party they were associated with) in the various political events we have touched on, what their views were on important issues

  • Jefferson, Thomas

  • Franklin, Benjamin

  • Adams, John

  • Adams, Samuel
    

  • Hamilton, Alexander

  • Madison, James

  • Washington, George

  • Burr, Aaron

  • Paine, Thomas

• state constitutions

• Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• "Contagion of liberty"
• "republican motherhood"
• Murray, Judith Sargent
  
• impact of the Revolution on:
  • slavery
  • family, sex, & marriage
    
  • women
    
  • politics
  • religion ("disestablishment")
  • social life
• Hewes, George Robert Twelves
• The Articles of Confederation
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Confederation government: powers it lacked, financial and diplomatic problems
• Shays' Rebellion
• debtor relief laws
• Annapolis Convention
• Constitutional Convention
• Virginia Plan
• Connecticut Compromise
• Committee of Detail
• Committee of Style
• sovereignty, division of ("imperium in imperio")
  
• Constitution:
  • enumerated powers
  • slavery protections: 3/5, "full faith and credit," slave trade, etc.
  • anti-democratic features
  • significance of Preamble
  • "necessary & proper" clause
  • judicial review
  • ratification process
  • Antifederalists
  • Bill of Rights

• Hamilton's financial program:

  • "funding" & "assumption" (national debt)

  • Bank of United States

  • excise tax

  • Report on Manufactures

• Jefferson vs. Hamilton:

  • views of proper role & style of government, use of force

  • interpretations of Constitution

  • views on foreign policy

  • "commercial discrimination"

• first parties: Federalists and (Democratic) Republicans

• political parties: Founders' attitudes toward, rise of

• Democratic-Republican Societies
• newspapers in the 1790s
  

• French Revolution, impact on U.S.

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Jay Treaty

• XYZ Affair

• Quasi-War

• Alien & Sedition Acts

• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

• "compact theory"

• Fries Rebellion

• Election of 1800