1. North America

2. King William’s War (1689-1697) & Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713)

3. King George’s War ( )

4. The French & Indian War (1754-1763)
Ohio River Valley

5. The French & Indian War (1754-1763)
Fort Duquesne
Battle at Jumonville Glen (May 28, 1754)
Battle at Fort Necessity (July 3, 1754)
Braddock’s Defeat (1755)

6. The Albany Plan (1754)

7. The Treaty of Paris (1763)

8. Pontiac’s War Proclamation of 1763

9. British Policies/Taxes

10. Stamp Act
Created most anger from colonists; 1st direct tax (collected from everyone) Stamp Act Congress (1765)
Sons & Daughters of Liberty= Radical group of colonists opposed to Stamp Act

11. Declaratory Act (1766) Passed immediately once Stamp Act was repealed
Stated Parliament had right to tax & make laws “in all cases whatsoever”

12. The Townshend Acts ( )
New taxes on colonial imports of tea, glass, & paper
Revenue used to pay crown officials in colonies
Reactions: Letters from a farmer in PA & Massachusetts Circular Letter, Daughters of Liberty & more boycotts!

13. Boston Massacre (March, 1770)
Disorganized brawl that led to deaths of 5 colonists

14. Gaspee Affair (1772)

15. Boston Tea Party (Dec. 1773)
Bostonians (members of the Sons of Liberty) dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

16. The “Intolerable Acts”

17. The Quebec Act

18. 1st Continental Congress
Philadelphia, September 1774
No desire for separation from England…yet

19. Lexington & Concord (April 18th, 1775)
“The shot heard around the world”

20. Bunker Hill
June 17th, 1775
Breed’s Hill
British & Colonial victory

21. The Second Continental Congress
Philadelphia; May 11th, 1775
De facto government
Declaration of the Causes & Necessities for Taking Up-Arms

22. Olive Branch Petition

23. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
January 1776
500,000 copies in 6 months
$$$ donated to Continental Army

24. Declaration of Independence (July 4th, 1776)
Lee Resolution Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson

25. The American Revolution
Patriots, Loyalists, Neutrals

26. The American Revolution

27. Valley Forge, PA Dec. 1777-June 1778
Military encampment for Continental Army

28. Battle of Saratoga New York, Oct. 1777
British General Burgoyne vs. Horatio Gates & Benedict Arnold
Patriot Victory, Turning Point of the Revolution for colonies

29. Illinois Campaign (1778-1789) George Rodgers Clark
Captured Ohio River Valley for Patriots

30. Surrender at Yorktown
Sept Oct. 19th, 1781
Chesapeake Bay

31. Treaty of Paris (1783) Creation of USA
Mississippi River= Western Boundary
Americans, fishing rights in Canada
Americans, pay debts to British merchants & loyalists

32. The Constitution & the New Republic

33. Issues Post-Revolution (after 1783)
Very weak government due to the Articles of Confederation= Not a united nation
Extremely weak/poor economy
Weak trade b/t new states
Large debts due to Revolution
No foreign nation wanted to do business with USA

34. The Articles of Confederation
Adopted by Congress in 1777, ratified in 1781

35. Northwest Ordinance of 1787

36. Shays’ Rebellion ( )
Who= Disgruntled Western Massachusetts farmers (many veterans of the Revolution) led by Daniel Shays, a wounded veteran
Response to increased taxes in Massachusetts post- Revolution
What= Began with shutting down of Western Mass. courts that tried debtors & culminated to an attempt to take an armory in Springfield, mass (1787)

37. Annapolis Convention Constitutional Convention
1786; Annapolis, Maryland
Meeting of delegates from 5 states; Alexander Hamilton & James Madison were key delegates

38. Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia; Summer 1787
Key Issues: Representation, Slavery, Trade

39. The Presidency Founders/Delegates didn’t trust Congress
But…they didn’t trust the “people” either
Electoral College Compromise= States allowed to choose electors for Presidential election

40. Federalists & Antifederalists

41. The Bill of Rights
Written by James Madison
Adopted in 1791

42. Washington’s Presidency
April 30th, March 4, 1797

43. Hamilton’s Financial Plan

44. USA & the French Revolution
Major issue of Washington’s presidency
Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
French Revolution= Civil war within France that led to conflict with other European nations, mainly w/England

45. Jay Treaty (1794) Chief Justice John Jay
Damn John Jay! Damn everyone that won't damn John Jay! Damn every one that won't put lights in his window and sit up all night damning John Jay!
Chief Justice John Jay
Goal= Stop Britain from seizing & searching American ships & impressing American sailors into British navy
Result= Britain agreed to evacuate posts/forts on U.S. western frontier, America had to pay debts owed to Loyalists

46. Pinckney Treaty (1795) Thomas Pinckney, U.S. minister to Spain
1) Spain opened lower Mississippi river & New Orleans to American trade 2) Florida given to Spain & boundary set at 31st parallel

47. Domestic Concerns
Western Confederacy, Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) Treaty of Greenville
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
Public Land Act (1796)

48. The Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794)
1791, Hamilton urged excise taxes on whiskey
Western Pennsylvanian farmers refused to pay whiskey tax
Washington places 15,000 militiamen under control of Hamilton

49. Political Parties & Two Party System
Began with Federalists & Antifederalists
1790s, Federalist Party vs. Democratic-Republican Party (pg. 116)

50. Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)

51. Election of 1796 & John Adams
Federalist John Adams vs. Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson
XYZ Affair
Alien & Sedition Acts
Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions