Adam Taylor 

                                                                               per. 2 AP US History

                                                                               10-24-05

                                                                                Unit 2 Review

1. American Revolution and the status of Women- The status of women at this time period increased and expand to get them out of the home and into the real world. Some women accompanied their husbands to the military camps. Doing duties such as nurses, cleaning, cooking, so the same jobs they did at home but in the camps. But women like Molly Pitcher helped so much that when her husband passed out of heat stroke she took over firing the artillery unit to help defend the fort. Besides that, the women did not gain any rights, but they helped out at the camps just liked they did at home.

2. Antifederalists- The people who wanted to stop the ratification of the constitution and to just fix up the Articles of Confederation. Some of the people who supported this were George Mason, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, George of Clinton, Samuel Adams, Elbridge Gerry, and Luther Martin. These people were afraid that once the constitution was approved that it would ruin the country, and thought that it should not being changed because the Articles of Confederations said that all states had to accept change if it had to been done. So by the current law it was breaking the law.

3. Battle of Yorktown- The last battle of General Cornwallis in which he last due to the French blockade, and the Americans surrounding them on the land.  This battle was one of the last battles for the British in which soon after the British were ready to talk for peace.

4. Boston Massacre- A group of Sons of Liberties had gotten together to harass some British troops in rebellion to the Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty were lead by Crispus Attucks and when a British soldiers was pushed down, the troops opened fired into the defenseless crowd. Killing many including Crispus Attucks and wounding many others. This helped greatly to spark up rebellion in the colonies to go against the British troops that were being forced on them. It helped to get people fired up.

5. Charles Beard’s view of the Constitution- The author of  the book of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution in 1913. He wrote about, that delegates represented and economic elite of speculators in the western lands. He also believed that the rich had a lot of land not bank notes. That the country was founded by rich and money only interested delegates.

6. Coercive Acts- Also known as the Intolerable Acts,  which we composed up with, Boston Port Act, and a modified and more strict version of the Quartering Act. These acts were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonist because they thought they were way to unfair.

7. Confederation’s  economy and mercantilism- The confederation wanted to gain money though there own, means for revenue. Also that they would use duties, to raise money on imports, they did not believe in direct taxation.

8. Declaration of Independence and John Locke-  They based going after happiness, but Thomas Jefferson changed it from property to happiness. Because it expanded the area to all happiness. Thus improving what was John Locke’s theory.

9.  Delegates to the Constitutional Convention and representation in Congress- There was delegates from only five states at first for the convention in New York. The leader of the convention was George Washington. Some of the people at the convention were Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Elbridge Gerry, John Adams, George Mason, and Gouverneur Morris, James Wilson, and Alexander Hamilton. But Alexander Hamilton, who did not show up and went home when two other fellow New York, delegates walked out.

10. Direct election and the Constitution- The constitution, came up with having the people vote for their delegates. They did not follow what the Article of Confederation had as, by voting by states. By order of the constitution the president and legislative officials would be brought to office by of people, and not by number of states. 

11. Events leading up to Revolution- The events that lead up to the Revolution, where the Sugar Act was strictly enforced, and thus brought an end to the period of Salutary Neglect. Next George Greenville brought up the Stamp Act to raise revenue of the ten thousand troops stationed in the colonies. Next came the Townshend Acts, in which tea, and lead was taxed.  Then the Boston Tea Party took place on where in punishment King George III them with the Boston Port Act. This closed the Boston harbor until the tea was paid for. Next the Stamp Act was put into place, to raise revenue for the British. So in response the Sons of Liberty caused problems in Boston and sort of caused the Boston Massacre.  So flared the problems, in the colonies. Which really got to the blasting point when British troops were sent to Lexington and Concord to take away the colonies weapons. So, went the shot that was heard around the world, and staring the Revolution.

12. Great Compromise- The compromise in which to level power in a system of checks and balances in the legislative branch between large and small states. Where each state has two senators, and then the lower house which is representatives, is by population, but no more than one representative for every 30,000 people. Ended the disputes between the large and small states over power of representation.

13. James Madison and political parties or factions- Was a federalist since he helped out at the Constitution Convention. He also published 30 articles in The Federalist. His most famous one is number ten, talks about Republics can only work in small homogenous countries such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, San Marino, Malta, so on.

14. Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer- Written by a lawyer by the name of John Dickinson, who talked about how Parliament had no right to have duties for the sole purpose to raise revenue, that what they were doing before was alright, such as the Sugar Act, but the Stamp Act had gone to far.

15. New Jersey Plan- The plan that was supported by the Anti-Federalist. They wanted to just fix up the old Articles of Confederation, and not go off an make a new document that the Federalist were doing. They did make some adjustment to their plan, by adding that Congress the power to levy taxes, and regulate commerce and the right to veto and a Supreme Court.

16. Post Revolution Education and nationalism- During and after the revolution the number of colleges in the colonies increased by 14. Also after the revolution an idea of public education came to mind for many Americans. Even Thomas Jefferson, introduced the “Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge.”