American Revolution Study Sheet

Review Sheet for AP Exam 11/ 2:
The American Revolution &
Foundations of US Government

Key Developments and Events
Ben Franklin’s Plan of Union/ Albany Plan of Union
Albany Conference of 1754French and Indian/ Seven Year’s War
Treaty of Paris/ Proclamation of Paris 1763
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Land Harbor 1768
First Continental Congress
Committees of Correspondence
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Nonimportation Agreement/ Movement
Declaratory Act
Revenue Acts
Townshend Acts
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts
Boston Port Bill
Quartering Act
Quebec Act
Lexington and Concord
Second Constitutional Convention
Declaration of Causes for Taking up Arms
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence
Common Sense
Treaty of Alliance
French and Spanish Alliances
Saratoga
Yorktown
Continental Congress
Articles of ConfederationLand Ordinance 1785
Northwest Ordinance 1787
Shay’s Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Post-Revolutionary Depression
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise

General Vocabulary
Retribution
Republicanism
Propaganda
Virtual representation
Actual representation
Coercion
Delegate
Confederation
Protectorate
Federalists
Anti-Federalists

Key figures
Acadians
Cajuns
William Pitt
Neolin
Pontiac
Iroquois Confederacy
Benjamin Franklin
Whigs
Thomas Jefferson
John Peter Zenger
James Otis
Samuel Adams
Patrick Henry
John Hancock
John Dickinson
Virginia House of Burgesses
Governor Hutchinson
Thomas Gage
Sons of Liberty
Crispus Attuckus
Committee of Safety
Minutemen
Loyalists
Tories
Provincial Congress
Committee of Safety
John Adams
George Washington
Ethan Allen
Abigail Adams
Deborah Sampson
Phyllis Wheatley
George Cornwallace
Horatio Gates
Daniel Shay
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Montesquieu

In addition, be familiar with geography of the American Revolution and the impact this conflict had on colonial borders.