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
