APUSH: UNIT 2 OVERVIEW
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 6-8
REVOLUTION! 1763-1783
KEY CONCEPTS
7. (BRIDGE FROM UNIT 1): Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for North America
led to new conflicts among the British government, the North American colonists, and American
Indians, culminating in the creation of a new nation, the United States.
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8. In the late 18 century, new experiments with democratic ideas and republican forms of
government, as well as other new religious, economic, and cultural ideas, challenged traditional
imperial systems across the Atlantic World.
9. Migration within North America, cooperative interaction, and competition for resources raised
questions about boundaries and policies, intensified conflicts among peoples and nations, and led
to contests over the creation of a multiethnic, multiracial national identity.
UNIT 2 VOCABULARY: NEED TO KNOW!
Utilize the following as you read for Unit 2. YOU WILL BE COMPLETING HTS
PARAGRAPHS ON THE 8 THAT ARE MARKED WITH *. You will find the assignment in
the Unit 2 Module in Canvas.
CHAPTER 6
Huguenots
Edict of Nantes
coureurs de bois
voyageurs
King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
War of Jenkin’s Ear
King George’s War
Acadians
*French and Indian War
(also called Seven Years’ War)
Albany Congress
regulars
Battle of Quebec
*Pontiac’s Uprising
Proclamation of 1763
Louis XIV
Samuel de Champlain
Edward Braddock
William Pitt
James Wolfe
Pontiac
History is the interpretation of past
events with an eye on the present and a
vision of the future!
CHAPTER 7
Republicanism
Radical Whigs
*Mercantilism
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp tax
Admiralty courts
Stamp Act Congress
Nonimportation agreements
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
Declaratory Act
*Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Committees of correspondence
Boston Tea Party
*Intolerable Acts
Quebec Act
First Continental Congress
The Association
Lexington and Concord
Valley Forge
John Hancock
George Grenville
Charles Townshend
Crispus Attucks
George III
Lord North
Sam Adams
Thomas Hutchinson
Marquis de Lafayette
Baron von Steuben
Lord Dunmore
CHAPTER 8
Second Continental Congress
Battle of Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Hessians
*Common Sense
*Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Loyalists
Patriots
Battle of Long Island
Battle of Trenton
*Battle of Saratoga
Model Treaty
Armed Neutrality
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Privateers
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
Richard Montgomery
Thomas Paine
Richard Henry Lee
Lord Charles Cornwallis
William Howe
John Burgoyne
Ben Franklin
Comte de Rochambeau
Nathanael Greene
Joseph Brant
George Rogers Clark
Admiral de Grasse
Affirmative action
OK, SO WHAT’S UP
Amend/Amendment
WITH THIS VOCAB LIST?
Amnesty
Anti-Semitism
THESE ARE WORDS
Apartheid
THAT WILL BE HANDY
Appellate
FOR HISTORY AND
Apportionment
ENGLISH ESSAYS.
Arbitration
Autocratic
REMEMBER THAT
Bureaucracy
BUILDING YOUR
Capitalism
VOCABULARY SKILLS
Caucus (as a noun and a verb)
HAS A DIRECT IMPACT
Civil rights
Colony
ON YOUR ABILITY TO DO
Communism
WELL IN COLLEGE!
Condone
Conscription
Conservative
Country
Coup d’état (sometimes just coup)
Deflation
Demagogue
Democracy
Democrat
Demographics
Disenfranchise
Dole (“on the public dole”)
Domestic
Economics
Emigrate
Empirical
Entrepreneur
Epitomé
Ethics
Ethnic
Eugenics
Evolution
Executive
Federal
Fifth column
Filibuster
Fundamentalism
Galvanized
GDP
Genocide
Historiography
Immigrate
Indentured servant
Indigenous
Inflation
Initiative
Invisible hand
Judicial
Labor
Legislative
Liberal
Martyr
Marxism
Melting pot
Migration
Militant
Millennialism
Monarchy
Nation
Nationalism
Nation-state
Oligarchy
Petition (as a noun and as a verb)
Populist
Precedent
Progressive
Propaganda
Reactionary
Red-tape
Referendum
Republic
Republican
Rural
Segregation
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Sovereignty
Subsidize
Suburban
Suffrage
Tariff
Totalitarian
Tyranny
Urban
Usurp
Vigilante