Terms to Study for 2d Test (Fall 2006)

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 number of items here toward the end that we will getting to in lecture next week, and some that we may not quite make it to. (You won't be reponsible for those this time.) Ask any questions as comments on this posting.

• "Walking Purchase"
• Enlightenment
• Locke, John: liberalism, tabula rasa, right of revolution, sensationalism, Thoughts on Education
• Great Awakening
• colonial assemblies
• rights of Englishmen
  
• French and Indian War/Seven Years War
• Pontiac's Rebellion
• Proclamation of 1763
• Boone, Daniel
• land shortages
• British imperial reforms: Stamp Act, Sugar Act (1764), Quartering Act
• Barre, Isaac
• Hutchinson, Thomas
• Stamp Act crisis: Sons of Liberty, riots, nonimportation, Declaratory Act
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Coercive Acts
• Continental Congress (1st & 2d)
  
• Battles of Lexington and Concord
• Summary View of the Rights of British America
• natural rights
• Common Sense
• 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
  • Paine, Thomas
  • Franklin, Benjamin
  • Adams, Samuel
    
  • Adams, John
  • Rush, Benjamin
  • Hamilton, Alexander
  • Madison, James
  • Washington, George
• state constitutions : Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
• "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
• Free black community, growth of: Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, AME Church
  
• Shays' Rebellion
• debtor relief laws
• Federalists
  
• Constitutional convention: Annapolis Convention, Virginia Plan, Connecticut Compromise, Committee of Detail, Committee of Style
• sovereignty, division of ("imperium in imperio")
  
• Constitution, features of:
  • enumerated powers
  • slavery protections: 3/5, "full faith and credit," slave trade, etc.
  • anti-democratic features
  • significance of Preamble
  • "necessary & proper" clause
  • Antifederalists
  • Bill of Rights

LECTURES LEFT OFF HERE BEFORE TEST

• Hamilton's financial program: "funding" & "assumption" (national debt), Bank of United States, excise tax

• Jefferson vs. Hamilton:

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

  • interpretations of Constitution

  • views on foreign policy

  • "commercial discrimination"