HIST 147 Knowledge Check 2

Second knowledge check, key terms

Sons of Liberty

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• Meet under liberty tree

• Now in all colonies and promise assistance to each other in different colonies

• Resist the stamp act, killing people

• After Stamp Act repealed they go away

Paul Revere

• Made propaganda for the Boston Massacre

• The “important” carrier of the American Revolution

General Gage

From the Massachusetts Government Act he oversaw the government of Mass. even though he was British

British empire replaces government

General Charles Cornwallis

His defeat led to the loss of British political support of the war which then led to the end of the American Revolution essentially (led to G.B to negotiate American’s independent)

George Washington EXPAND MORE

• Controls the army

Thomas Paine - Common Sense

• Basically started the American Revolution

• His pamphlet (common sense) argued for the immediate political and economic separation from Great Britain.

Benedict Arnold

• Betrayed Americans during the Revolution

• Joined the British line after a great attack against them years later and attacked people he once fought with

Alexander Hamilton

• Securing support for the federal government

  • Using the national debt to advantage

• Hamiltons Economic Plan

James Madison

• “Father of the Constitution”

  • Defended the Constitution, co-wrote the Federalist papers

• Authored the Virginia Plan - structured the three branches of government

Thomas Jefferson

• Drafted the Declaration of Independence “all men are created equal….”

John Adams

• (really likes monarchies, because of the French rev. a problem)

Abigail Adams

Mercy Otis Warren

Aaron Burr

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

Declaratory Act

Boston Massacre

Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

Coercive Acts

Quebec Act

First Continental Congress

Continental Association

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Declaration of Independence

Battle of Bunker Hill

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Yorktown

The Treaty of Paris (1783)

Shay’s Rebellion

Northwest Ordinance

1st Bank of the United States

Whiskey Rebellion

Alien and Sedition Acts

Democratic-Republicans

Jay Treaty

Treaty of Greenville

Quasi-War with France

XYZ Affair

Revolution of 1800

Louisiana Purchase

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Admiralty Courts

Loyalists/Tories

Slavery During the American Revolution

Articles of Confederation

The Constitution of 1787

The Bill of Rights

Republican Motherhood

“Excess of Democracy”

Slavery and the Constitution

Electoral College

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

Be able to discuss the actions of colonists (men and women, poor and wealthy, patriots and loyalists

Be able to write about the relationship between rebellion and governance in the decades after the
American Revolution. Big picture themes include the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution,
finances, Shay’s Rebellion/Regulation, the Whiskey Rebellion/(Regulation?), and the Alien and
Sedition Acts.

You read a number of texts written about or by Thomas Jefferson. Be prepared to discuss his role
in shaping the American nation. Be sure to know his political and racial views. Were Jefferson’s
convictions logical or not?