Unit 3 Study Guide
1. Before the French and Indian War, how were the
American colonies organized? Did they function as
individual colonies or a united colony?
2. Troops under what general started the Seven Years
War (French and Indian War)?
3. What was the purpose of the Albany Congress in
1754? What did it achieve?
4. Explain Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or DIE” political
cartoon.
5. What did the Treaty of Paris of 1763 accomplish?
List the stipulations under the treaty.
6. Why did the British Parliament start to enforce the
1651 Acts of Trade and Navigation after the French
and Indian War?
7. What was Britain trying to accomplish with
mercantilism?
8. What was the Proclamation of 1763?
9. What was the Sugar Act? What was the Stamp Act?
How did they differ?
10. How did the crisis caused by the Stamp Act lead to
the American Revolution?
11. What purpose did the Stamp Act Congress
accomplish? Why was this significant?
12. How did the British Parliament respond to the
American claim of “no taxation without
representation?”
13. What were the Townshend Acts? How did the
colonist respond to them?
14. Explain the events of the Boston Massacre.
15. What was the Tea Act? How did colonist respond to
it?
16. Explain the significance of Thomas Paine’s essay
Common Sense.
17. What was the significance of the Battle of
Saratoga?
18. List 5 achievements of George Washington during
the American Revolution.
19. List the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
20. What is the concept of Republican Motherhood?
21. What was the effect of the American Revolution on
African Americans?
22. What civil liberty that the colonies were struggling
to create since the beginning finally became
important during the late 18th century (1700s)?
23. What were the economic challenges facing the
early United States?
24. What was the Articles of Confederation? What
were some of the characteristics of government
under it?
25. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
26. What did Shay’s Rebellion highlight about the
Articles of Confederation?
27. What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
28. What was the original purpose of the
Constitutional Convention? What did they do
instead?
29. What were the similarities of most of the delegates
at the Constitutional Convention?
30. What was the most contested topic during the
Constitutional Convention? How was it solved?
31. What is the actual name of the Great Compromise?
32. Which groups of people opposed the ratification of
the Constitution? (Not the antifederalist)
33. What was the Bill of Rights? What purpose did it
serve?
34. Name of all of George Washington’s cabinet
members and their position.
35. What was the First Bank of the United States?
36. What is Jay’s Treaty?
37. What is Pinckney’s Treaty?
38. What was Alexander Hamilton’s plans as Secretary
of Treasury?
39. How did most of the Founding Fathers feel about
political parties/faction
40. What was George Washington’s Neutrality
Proclamation of 1793?
41. Explain the conflict between Alexander Hamilton
and Thomas Jefferson during the 1790s.
42. What did Hamilton concede to Jefferson and James
Madison regarding the federal assumption of state
debts?
43. What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
44. What was main purpose of George Washington’s
Farewell Address?
45. What is the XYZ Affair?
46. What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
47. What was the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
48. Explain the States’ Rights Compact theory.
49. What was President John Adams’ purpose in the
peaceful solution to the Quasi War with France?