Period 3 APUSH

Period 3: 1754-1800

1. Causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War.

2. Taxation and the colonies: Admiralty Laws and the Dominion of New England, Coercive Acts

3. Popular movements and activism: Sons of Liberty, Boston Tea Party, Stamp Act Congress, Boycotts, Continental Congresses…

4. Why we won: development of colonial militias, Washington’s military leadership, ideological commitment and resilience, European assistance/allies, home field advantage

5. British attempts to assert tighter control over its North American colonies and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War. The competition among the British, French, and American Indians for economic and political advantage in North America culminated in the Seven Years War (F & I War), in which Britain defeated France and their allied American Indians.

a. Colonial rivalry intensified between Britain and France in the mid-18^th Century, as the growing population of the British colonies expanded into the interior of North America, threatening French-Indian tribe networks and American Indian autonomy.

b. Britain achieved a major expansion of its territorial holdings by defeating the French, but at tremendous expense, setting the stage for imperial efforts to raise revenue and consolidate control over the colonies.

c. After the British victory, imperial officials’ attempts to prevent colonists from moving westward generated colonial opposition, while native groups sought to both continue trading with Europeans and resist the encroachments of colonists onto tribal lands.

d. Proclamation Line 1763

6. Work, Exchange, and Technology: Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.

The desire of many colonists to assert ideals of self-government in the face of renewed British imperial efforts led to colonial independence and war with Britain.

a. The imperial struggles of the mid-18^th century, as well as new British efforts to collect taxes without direct colonial representation or consent and to assert imperial authority in the colonies began to unite the colonists against perceived and real constraints on their economic activities and political rights.

b. Colonial leaders based their calls for resistance to Britain on arguments about the rights of British subjects, the rights of the individual, local traditions of self-rule, and the ideas of the Enlightenment.

c. The effort for American Independence was energized by colonial leaders such as Benjamin Franklin, as well as by popular movements that included the political activism of laborers, artisans, and women.

d. In the face of economic shortages and the British military occupation of some regions, men and women mobilized in large numbers to provide financial and material support to the Patriot movement.

e. Despite Considerable loyalist opposition, as well as Great Britain’s apparently overwhelming military and financial advantages, the Patriot cause succeeded because of the actions of colonial militias and the Continental Army, George Washington’s military leadership, the colonists’ ideological commitment and resilience, and assistance sent by European allies (France).

7. War between France and Britain resulting from the French Revolution presented challenges to the Unites States over issues of free trade and foreign policy and fostered political disagreements. Washington’s Neutrality Policy

a. Neutrality Proclamation

b. Adams “cooled relations with France”

c. Embargo Act

d. Non-Intercourse Act

e. XYZ Affair

f. Tripolitan Wars

8. Crafting a Nation

a. Hamilton’s Report on Public Manufactures (supported tariff and industry) and on Public Credit (the need to establish creditworthiness)

b. Articles of confederation: No Power to tax, weak executive branch

c. 1780 Northwest Ordinance

d. Revenue Act 1789 (8% tariff)

e. Neutrality Proclamation 1793