1. Period 3 (1754-1800) Covers the last part of Ch. 4, all of Ch
Period 3 ( ) Covers the last part of Ch. 4, all of Ch. 5 and 6 and the first part of Ch. 7.
Time Period 3 covers about 12% of the total AP exam
Time Period 3:
Begins with material from the last part of Ch. 4 in 1754 (French and Indian War and The Albany Plan of Union) and moves into post-French and Indian War 1763 (Political effects: The Treaty of Paris and the Proclamation of 1763).
Continues in Chapter 5 with post-French and Indian War (especially economic effects), the role of George Grenville and Charles Townshend, colonial rebellions, role of American women, Parliamentary compromises?, Continental Congress, The Patriot Movement, nonimportation, Second Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence
Also covers Chapter 6 including the Revolutionary War, victory, the writing and failure of the first American constitution (Articles of Confederation), Shay’s Rebellion, The Constitution of why successful?
Ends with the first part of Chapter 7, carrying out of the Constitution, Hamilton vs Jefferson, Jay’s Treaty, the rise of political parties, Westward Movement, and the movement out of the South and New England.
Time Period 3 ends in 1800, just before Thomas Jefferson is elected President.

2. Chapter 5 ( ) Overview
The Effects of the French and Indian War:
Politically:
British domination of eastern North America.
Salutary Neglect ⟹ direct rule by Parliament.
Peacetime deployment of large numbers of British troops to the American colonies. Why?
Economically: Britain in debt, so...
Revenue Act of 1762 = ”It is absurd that French armies that were attempting to destroy one English province…are actually supported by Bread raised in another.”
Commonalities between Britain’s poor and the American colonists
English criminals in America (a.k.a- indentured servants)
British taxpayers vs. American taxpayers. Solution- George Grenville---Currency Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act.
Smuggling and bribing
“If you chose to tax us, give us members in your Legislature and let us be one People.” Response?
Little regard for the local assemblies
Rebellion
Attack on colonial institutions--continuity or new idea?—Dominion of New England
Patrick Henry- connection to the Great Awakening?
Stamp Act Congress- Moderate opposition “compromise not confrontation,” VS. Popular opposition “disciplined mobs”—inspired by wealthy merchants and lawyers but led by middle class artisans and merchants
Colonial riots- continuity or change?
“The people of America…never would submit to be taxed that a few may be loaded with palaces and pensions...while they themselves cannot support themselves and their needy offspring with Bread.”
Lawyers as the leaders of the resistance? Other examples in history?

3. Parliamentary Decisions
Nullification of the Stamp Act but Declaratory Act issued (reaffirmed Parliament’s political authority)
The Townshend Act- undermined the autonomy and authority of American political institutions
Self-government or high taxes?
Resistance
The role of Puritans?
Daughters of Liberty
“Like a strong, well-constructed arch, the more weight there is laid upon it, the firmer it stands; and thus with America, the more we are loaded, the more we are united.”
Resistance to taxation…
in 1765= ignited a Parliamentary debate
in 1768= fueled military coercion
Compromise; Round 2
Repeal of the Townshend Act
The Boston “Massacre” - why does it matter?
“There is more reason to dread the consequences of absolute uncontrolled supreme power, whether of a nation or a monarch, than those of total independence.”
Compromise Ignored
Committee of Correspondence set up to provide communication between colonies.
“This destruction of the Tea is so bold and it must have so important Consequences, that I cannot but consider it as an Epoch in history.”
“This cause of Boston, now is and ever will be considered as the cause of America.”
Significance of the Coercive Acts?

4. The First Continental Congress
Similarities to the Albany Plan?
State vs. National Government?
Declaration of Rights and Grievances- repel of the Coercive Acts.
“Commercial Warfare”
Patriots vs. Loyalists
Angry farmers. Yeomen and southern slave owners
Mob rule?
Quakers, Germans, and enslaved blacks- why Loyalists?
Minutemen
Lexington and Concord
Organizing for War
The Second Continental Congress
Continental Army and George Washington
”resolved to die Freemen rather than live as slaves.”
George III as “imperial father.”
Influence of the “New Lights?
“A government of our own is our natural right, “TIS TIME TO PART”
American independence as “natural” and simply “common sense.”
Popular sovereignty

5. What are the major social, political and economic continuities (ideas/topics, etc that emerged in Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4 and then continue into Chapter 5)? What are the new ideas/topics, etc. that emerge in Chapter 5? Why now in history? (continuities and changes)
Chapter 5 is entitled “Toward Independence: Years of Decision.” Do you think this is an appropriate title for this chapter? Why or why not? (historical argumentation).
Why does Chapter 5 begin in 1763 and end in 1776 (social, political, economic events)? What are alternative dates that could be used to mark the beginning and end of this chapter? (periodization)
What are the major turning pts. (politically, socially and economically) found in this chapter?
What events in Chapter 5 are setting us up for conflict in future chapters? (cause/effect)