AP US History Unit 2 Study Guide “Salutary Neglect” Enlightenment terms to remember Balance of trade Philosophes Mercantilism John Locke Tariffs Tabula rasa Navigation Acts Social Contract Natural Rights Montesquieu Benjamin Franklin
French and Indian War Ft. Duquesne Relative advantages (Brit./France) Gov. Dinwiddie The Great Expulsion (1755-63) George Washington William Pitt, Sr. The Brave Old Hendrick Battle of the Plains of Abraham Albany Plan for Union Treaty of Paris, 1763 Pontiac´s Rebellion
Discontent Proclamation Line of 1763 John Dickinson Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer East Florida, West Florida, Quebec Boston Massacre Sugar Act (1764) Samuel Adams Admiralty courts John Adams Virtual representation Gaspee incident (1772) Stamp Act (1765) Committees of Correspondence Stamp Act Congress Tea Act of 1773 Patrick Henry British East India Co. "Sons of Liberty" Boston Tea Party Quartering Act Quebec Act, 1774 Declaratory Act Coercive (Intolerable) Acts Townshend Duties (1767) First Continental Congress Massachusetts General Court’s Circular Letter (1768)
War of Independence Lexington and Concord Battle of Saratoga Second Continental Congress Alliance of 1778 General Washington Netherlands and Spain Olive Branch Petition Valley Forge Battle of Bunker Hill Privateers and the “Law of the Sea” Three-phases of the war League of Armed Neutrality, 1780 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense John Paul Jones Declaration of Independence Yorktown Thomas Jefferson Newburgh Conspiracy Loyalists Sir George Rodney, Battle of Saints, 1782 Hudson Valley Campaign Treaty of Paris, 1787
A New Nation, 1781-1787 Constitution of the United States Articles of Confederation Alexander Hamilton Land Ordinance of 1785 James Madison Northwest Ordinance of 1787 John Jay Spanish Louisiana Territory Constitutional Convention Mississippi River closure Virginia Plan New Orleans closure New Jersey Plan Robert Morris Great Compromise Rhode Island Credit Crisis Three-fifths Compromise Shays’ Rebellion Checks and Balances Annapolis Convention Articles I, II and III Federalism Ratification Federalist Papers (“Publius”) Anti-federalists (“Cato”) Bill of Rights Washington Administration Judiciary Act of 1789 Tariff Act of 1789 Adams Administration Washington’s Cabinet Election of 1796 Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton Electoral College Voting prior to 12th Amendment Secretary of State Jefferson XYZ Affair Report on the Public Credit (“Funding at debt at par”) Undeclared Naval War of 1798-1800 Report on Revenue (Revenue Tariff, Inheritance Alien and Sedition Acts Tax, Excise Tax) Naturalization Act Whiskey Rebellion Virginia and Kentucky Resolves Report on Banking First Bank of the United States, 1791 Implied Powers Strict Constructionist Interpretation Necessary and Proper Clause Report on Manufactures Little Turtle Battle of Fallen Timbers Treaty of Greenville French Revolution Alliance of 1778 (consequences for France) Proclamation of Neutrality Citizen Genét Napoleon Federalist Party Democratic Republican Party Jay Treaty of 1794/95 Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney’s Treaty) Washington’s Farewell Address