Unit 3 Study Guide

Dominant Powers in North America

Ohio River Valley

Albany Congress

George Washington

The French and Indian War (1754-1763)

1763 Treaty of Paris

Long Term Problems

Proclamation of 1763

The American Revolution

Sugar Act (1764)

Admiralty Courts

Stamp Act (1765)

Non-Importation agreements

Stamp Act Congress (1765)

British Response/ Counter argument

Virtual Representation

Declaratory Act (1765)

Charles Townshend

Townshend Acts

Indirect Tax

East India Company

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Acts (1774)

First Continental Congress (1774)

Patriots vs Loyalists/ Tories

Petition to King George III (1774)

2nd Continental Congress (1775)

Olive Branch Petition

Common Sense

The Declaration of Independence

Independence for women and African Americans

Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775)

Republican Motherhood (1776)

Articles of Confederation

Unicameral Legislature

Foreign Policy

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Limitations on Federal Government

Default

Foreclosures

Shays’s Rebellion (1786-1787)

Philadelphia Convention (1787)

Primary Features of the Constitution

Legislature:

Executive:

Judicial

Electoral College

Slavery under the Constitution

International Slave Trade

Fugitive Slave Clause

3/5ths Compromise

Ratification of the Constitution

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

Hamilton’s Financial Plan (1790)

Debt:

National Bank:

Tariffs:

American Political Parties

Federalists

Democratic Republicans

Jay’s Treaty (1794)

Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Alien and Sedition Acts (1789)

Election of 1800