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Chapter 1: British North America in 1763

  • French and Indian War
  • Treaty of Paris
  • immigration
  • chattel slavery
  • Navigation Acts
  • town meeting
  • proprietary colonies
  • corporate colonies
  • Real Whig ideology
  • rights of Englishmen
  • Great Awakening

Chapter 2: The Imperial Crisis

  • George Grenville
  • Sugar Act
  • James Otis
  • Stamp Act
  • Patrick Henry
  • Virginia Resolves
  • Stamp Act Congress
  • Samuel Adams
  • Sons of Liberty
  • Andrew Oliver
  • Declaratory Act
  • Townshend Acts
  • Non-importation
  • John Dickinson
  • Boston Massacre
  • Committees of Correspondence
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Coercive Acts
  • First Continental Congress
  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances
  • Continental Association

Chapter 3: Revolution, 1775-1776

  • General Gage
  • Minutemen
  • Lexington and Concord
  • Bunker Hill
  • Second Continental Congress
  • Benedict Arnold
  • George Washington
  • Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
  • Olive Branch Petition
  • American Prohibitory Act
  • Common Sense
  • Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Summary View of the Rights of British America
  • Declaration of Independence

Chapter 4: Winning Independence

  • Militiamen
  • Continental Army
  • William Howe
  • Hessians
  • Battle of Long Island
  • John Burgoyne
  • Fort Ticonderoga
  • Saratoga
  • Monmouth Court House
  • Charles Cornwallis
  • Yorktown
  • Nathanael Greene
  • Treaty of Paris
  • Loyalists

Chapter 5: The Confederation Era

  • Elitists
  • Democrats
  • Republicanism
  • Pennsylvania Constitution
  • Massachusetts Constitution
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Confederation Congress
  • Public debt
  • Paper money
  • Shays's Rebellion

Chapter 6: Creating the Constitution

  • Annapolis Convention
  • Constitutional Convention
  • James Madison
  • Virginia Plan
  • Montesquieu
  • Three-fifths clause
  • New Jersey Plan
  • Great Compromise
  • Ratification
  • Federalist
  • Antifederalist
  • Federalist essays
  • Judiciary Act
  • Bill of Rights

Chapter 7: The Federalist Era

  • Electoral College
  • John Adams
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Report on Public Credit
  • Bank of the United States
  • Strict constructionism
  • Broad constructionism
  • “Necessary and proper” clause
  • Report on Manufactures
  • Political economy
  • Notes on the State of Virginia
  • The Wealth of Nations
  • Free trade
  • Tariffs
  • Agrarianism
  • Partisanship
  • Federalists
  • Republicans
  • Philadelphia newspaper war of 1792
  • Whiskey Rebellion
  • Citizen Genet
  • Neutrality Proclamation
  • Jay Treaty
  • Washington’s Farewell Address
  • Pinckney Treaty
  • Aaron Burr
  • XYZ Affair
  • Alien and Sedition Acts
  • Naturalization Act
  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • Fries's Rebellion
  • Election of 1800

Chapter 8: An Empire of Liberty, 1801-1815

  • Lewis and Clark expedition
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • War of 1812
  • Agrarian Republic
  • Market Revolution
  • Louisiana Territory
  • “Corps of Discovery”
  • Barbary States
  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
  • Embargo Act
  • Non-Intercourse Act
  • Impressment
  • Tecumseh and Tenkswatawa
  • War Hawks
  • Henry Clay
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Battle of New Orleans
  • Francis Scott Key
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Hartford Convention

Chapter 9: Native Americans and the American Revolution

  • Pontiac's Uprising
  • Neolin
  • Proclamation Line
  • Paxton Boys
  • Dunmore's War
  • Western Confederacy
  • Little Turtle
  • Battle of Fallen Timbers
  • Tenskwatama
  • Tecumseh
  • Red Sticks
  • Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Chapter 10: African Americans in the Age of Revolution

  • Gabriel's Rebellion
  • Quakers
  • Dunmore's proclamation
  • emancipation
  • Philipsburg proclamation
  • Black Carolina Corps
  • Sierra Leone
  • manumission
  • Haitian Revolution
  • Toussaint L'Ouverture

Chapter 11: American Woman in the Age of Revolution

  • Mercy Otis Warren
  • Boycott movement
  • Edenton Tea Party
  • Abigail Adams
  • Coverture
  • Mary Richardson Russell
  • Petit treason
  • Republican Motherhood
  • Declaration of Sentiments

Chapter 12: Who should Rule at Home?

  • Henry Laurens
  • John Adams
  • Loyalists
  • Livingston Manor Rising
  • Samuel Curwen
  • James Moody
  • Mary (Molly) Brant
  • Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)
  • Boston King
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • William Manning
  • New Men
  • “The Key of Liberty”