1St Period World History
AP U.S. HISTORY
Unit Three: 7-Year War to Revolution of 1800
Unit Study Guide
Required Reading: Divine Chapters 4 thru 7
Supplemental Reading: Zinn Chapters 4 & 5
Historiography Debate: Taking Sides: Was the American Revolution Largely a Product of Market-Driven Forces?
1754-1800 (Time Period): 7-years War to Revolution of 1800
Focus Questions: Answer these questions and keep answers in UNIT STUDY GUIDE TAB in your UNIT BINDER
Chapter 4
1. Describe each war, its causes and effects, from 1689-1763. Pay particular attention to how the colonies assisted the Mother Country in these wars and how they reacted when peace was made. Make a detailed chart.
Chapter 5
1.The Revolutionary War was inevitable. Assess the validity of this statement. Write a thesis statement you can prove. List the specific factual information (evidence).
2.Compare and contrast the assets and liabilities of the British and American forces in the Revolutionary War.
3.Did the War of Independence bring enough change to warrant the name “Revolution”?
4.Explain what both the American elite and the common folk support the American Revolution.
Chapter 6
1.What social and political reforms were enacted and more importantly, not included in the new government?
2.How did the different state constitutions increase/limit democracy?
3.Compare/contrast the emerging economic plans discussed for America.
4.Describe the compromises necessary to create the Constitution.
5.What was the significance and effects of the Land Ordinance and Northwest Ordinance?
Chapter 7
1. Describe the differences between Hamilton and Jefferson’s economic policy and the role of the people in the government.
2. Why did Alexander Hamilton push for the federal assumption of state debts?
3. What arguments did Hamilton make to support the creation of a national banking system?
4. What were the reasons for the Whiskey Rebellion? Who was it aimed at particularly?
5. How did Federalists and Republicans each blame each other for the Whiskey Rebellion?
6. What diplomatic problems did the French Revolution and the war that followed pose for the United States? How did Washington and Congress deal with this problem?
7. What were the circumstances that sent John Jay to England? What were the results of his mission? How did Jay's Treaty affect American relations with Spain?
8. What circumstances led to an administration with a Federalist president and a Republican vice president?
9. What caused the "quasi-war" with France during the Adams administration? What was the result of this struggle?
10. How did the Federalists attempt to silence those who opposed the undeclared war, and what groups did these attempts most affect?
11. What gave rise to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? What attitude toward the nature of the federal government did these Resolutions reveal?
12. Even though it looked like Jefferson had won the 1800 Presidential election outright, what complications emerged that endangered the Republican victory?
Key Terms: These must be in your UNIT BINDER which is checked the day of the unit exam. Who, what,when and why each was significant. Remember to use website I provided or you may use another source you find more helpful.
Proclamation of 1763
Boston Tea Party
Battle of Saratoga
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
“no taxation without representation”
Crisis Papers
Loyalists/Tories
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Non-importation agreements
Olive Branch Petition
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
virtual representation
Pontiac's Rebellion
Boston Massacre
Gaspee Affair
Quartering Act
Paxton Boys
Sugar Act 1764
Townshend Acts
Tea Act
Phyllis Wheatly
Shay's Rebellion
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Albany Plan
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris 1783
Articles of Confederation
Republicanism (Republican Democracy)
Three-fifths Compromise
Connecticut (Great) Compromise
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Benjamin Banneker
Republican Motherhood
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
John Dickinson
Whigs (British)
John Jay
James Madison
Pontiac
George Grenville
Virtual Representation
Virginia Resolves
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
General Cornwallis
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
James Otis
Samuel Adams
Committee of Correspondence
King William’s War
Hessians
Battle of Saratoga
William Pitt
Morgan’s Rifles
Nathanial Green
War of Spanish Succession
Fort Duquesne
King George’s War/Jenkin’s Ear
Seven Year’s War
Queen Anne’s War
Impressment
Midnight Judges
Quasi-War
XYZ Affair
Revolution of 1800
Federalist
Anti-Federalist
Federalist Papers
Democratic-Republicans
Virginia Resolution
Kentucky Resolution
Core Structure Sheet Questions
1. Analyze the impact of the American Revolution on both slavery and the status of women
in the period from 1775-1800.
2. To what extent was the United States Constitution a radical departure from the Articles of
Confederation?
3.Settlers in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent
protest to express their grievances. Analyze the causes and significance of TWO of the
following:
March of the Paxton Boys
Regulator movement
Shays' Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
Presidential Profiles
George Washington
John Adams