MATERIAL FOR THE SECOND EXAM
1763-1776
1763 Pontiac’s Rebellion
Begins the first crisis
Proclamation Line 1763
Indian Reserve
East Florida, West Florida, Quebec
Plan of 1764
Quartering Act 1765
Mercantilism
1764 Revenue Act Sugar Act
Molasses Act 1733
Lower tax
Writs of assistance—search warrants
Vice-admiralty courts
Triangular trade
Preamble
Tax to regulate trades
Tax to raise money
No taxation without representation
1765 Stamp Act
Revenue stamps 1/2p $5 gold
Protect, defend and secure the colonies
“Sons of Liberty”
1765 Virginia Resolves
Circular letter
Stamp Act Congress 1765
Virtual representation
1766 repealed the Stamp Act
1766 Declaratory Act
Ended 1st crisis to revolution
1767 Charles Townsend Act
John Dickinson Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer 1768
External tax—reg trade
Internal tax—raise revenue
Dissolve the NY Legis 1767
Dissolve the GC of Mass 1768
Dissolve the HofB of Virg 1768
John Hancock The Liberty
March 5, 1770
Boston Massacre
Sam Adams
End of the second crisis
Christopher Gadsden Patrick Henry
Committees of Correspondence
Dec. 16, 1773 Boston tea Party
5 Intolerable Acts Coercive Acts 1774
1. Boston Port Act
2. Massachusetts Government Act
3. Administration of Justice Act
4. Quartering Act
5. Quebec Act
1st Continental Congress 1774
Joseph Galloway Plan of Union 1774
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The Association
George III 1760-1820
Lord North’s Conciliatory Resolves Feb 1775
Lexington and Concord
Gage
2nd Continental Congress 1775
1775 Bunker Hill
George Washington
July 4, 1776
January 1776 Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Social contract theory
Hessians
July 4, 1776
June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee “that these united colonies are and of a right ought to be free
and independent states.”
July 2, 1776
July 4, 1776
Battle of Saratoga 1777
Treaty of Alliance 1778
Battle of Yorktown 1781
Treaty of Paris 1783
Prewar debts
Loyalists
Articles of Confederation Nov 1777 adopted; March 1781
1. States’ rights
2. Congress
a. Delegates
i. 2 to 7 delegates/ state
ii. 1 vote/state
iii. Unanimous
iv. Term limits 3y of 6y time span 1 yr term
3. Amendments unanimous consent
4. States control tax and trade
5. Powers central government
Land Ordinance of 1784
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
1790 Southwest Ordinance
Jay-Gardoqui Treaty 1785
Shays’ Rebellion 1786
Madison and House of Burghesses
1786 Annapolis Convention
1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention
Edmund Randolph Va “The Virginia Plan” or “Large State Plan”
National Ex
National Jud
National Legislature
Bicameral Lower House pop; Upper House equal
William Paterson NJ “The New Jersey” or “Small State Plan”
Single house unicameral Legis
Equal votes
“King Pin Clause” supremacy clause
Connecticut Compromise or Great Compromise
3/5th Compromise
Federalists
Federalist Papers
Federalists
Federalist Papers Hamilton Madison Jay
Anti-Federalists
Washington 1789-1797
Adams 1797-1801
Jefferson 1801-1809
Madison 1809-1817
Monroe 1817-1825
JQ Adams 1825-1829
Jackson 1829-1837
Van Buren 1837-1841
Jefferson SofS
Hamilton SofT
Knox SofW
Randolph AG
Judiciary Act 1789
Organic Act 1789
Jefferson VA admires Fre supp agric as little govt states’ rights expert in everything but finance
Hamilton NY admires Brit encourage manuf and ship strong central govt expert in finance
Eco polit philo:
1. For and dom paid at par
2. War debt sts will assumed fed
3. Bank of US
4. Manuf and commerce tariffs protect infant industries
Mar 1790 Jefferson SoS
Jeffersonian Democrat Republicans
1792 1793-1797
Peace, union, justice
1778 Treaty of Alliance
1793 Neutrality Proclamation
1794 John Jay Treaty
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers
The Treaty of Greenville
Pinckney Treaty 1795
Agree 31st parallel
US navig Miss. R
Rt of dep New Orl
Whiskey Rebellion 1794
1796
Fed John Adams Pinckney
Rep Jefferson Burr
John Adams 1797-1801
1798 XYZ Affair
Apr 1798
Sedition Act 1798
Alien Act
Naturalization Act
1st States’ rights movement
Va Legis and Kent Legis
Nullification
Convention of 1800
Oct 1, 1800
1800
Fed Adams and Pinckney
Rep Jefferson and Burr
Pres Jefferson 1801-1809
VP Burr 1801-1805; George Clinton 1805-1809
Revolution of 1800
Sos Madison
SoT Gallatin
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon
Ap 1803 Treaty of Cession
Fed conspiracy Essex Junto and River Gods of Conn
1804 Burr-Hamilton Duel
Marbury v. Madison 1803 “case of the midnight judges”
John Marshall
Precedent declared Judiciary Act 1789 unconst. Judicial review
Samuel Chase SC Justice
1805-1809
Burr Conspiracy 1806
Marshall two witnesses to the same overt act of treason
1807 Chesapeake Affair Leopard Chesapeake
1807 Embargo Act “peaceful coercion” repealed Mr. 1809
1809 Force Act
1808 Madison 1809-1817
1809 Non-intercourse Act
David Erskine 1809 Erskine Agreement impressment
Geo. Canning
1810 Macon’s Bill #2
West Florida 1810 Baton Rouge
Territory of Orleans 1812 La statehood
1811 The President The Little Belt
June 16, 1812
June 18, 1812 War of 1812
War Hawks Henry Clay Ken; John Calhoun SC; John Sevier TN
Expansionism
1811 Indiana Gen. William Henry Harrison def. Tecumseh and the Prophet
Battle of Tippecanoe
Hartford Convention 1814
1814 Treaty of Ghent
1815 commercial treaty
Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay “American System”
John Calhoun “Second Bank of the US” 1816
McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 Implied powers clause, elastic clause, necessary and proper
clause
1816 Rep James Monroe 1817-1825
“Era of Good Feelings”
Panic of 1819
Public Land Act of 1820
Missouri 1819 slave
Tallmadge Amendment
1820 Missouri Compromise
MO slave
ME free
36 30’
1817 Rush-Bagot Agreement
1818 Oregon Convention of 1818
Florida 1817 Gen. Jackson 1818 St. Marks
John Quincy Adams S of S
Latin America Monroe Doctrine 1823
1817 Chile Venezuela Mexico
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty 1821
Monroe Doctrine
1824 Treaty with Russia 54 40’