Note: The following outline has been updated for the Fall 2012 semester.

12. From Peace to Disorder

  • Legacies of the Seven Years’ War
    • Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)
    • Proclamation Line (1763)
    • Imperial Budget
  • “Triple Whammy” of the Postwar Era
  • Sugar Act (1764)
    • The Act
    • Colonial Reactions
  • Stamp Act (1765)
    • The Act
    • Colonial Reactions

 

13. From Resistance to Revolution

  • Stamp Act Repeal (1766)
  • Townshend Acts (1767)
  • Boston Massacre (1770)
  • Boston Tea Party (1773)
  • Coercive Acts (1774)
  • First Continental Congress (1774)
  • Lexington and Concord (1775)
  • Second Continental Congress (1775)

 

14. Declaring Independence

  • Liberty or Death?
  • Independence
    • Paine, Common Sense (Jan. 1776)
    • Second Continental Congress
  • Video
  • Declaration of Independence Study Questions

 

15. The Revolutionary War

  • The Revolutionary War
    • Gen. Washington
    • Trenton (1776)
    • Saratoga (1777) and the French
    • Yorktown (1781) victory
    • Treaty of Paris (1783)
  • Articles of Confederation

 

16. The First Federal Govt.

  • Articles of Confederation (1781)
    • Background
    • Characteristics
    • Evaluation
  • Land Ordinances
  • Prelude to the Constitution
    • Shays’s Rebellion (1786)
    • Annapolis Convention (1786)
    • Philadelphia Convention (1787)

 

17. The U.S. Constitution

  • Philadelphia Convention (1787)
    • Virginia Plan
    • New Jersey Plan
    • Two Key Compromises
  • Study Questions

 

18. The Bill of Rights

  • Bibliography Worksheet
  • Constitution’s Ratification (1788)
    • Procedure
    • Debate: Federalist vs. Antifederalists
    • Results
  • Bill of Rights (1791)
    • Purpose
    • Study Questions
  • Review of Part II

 

19. EXAM

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