Key Terms in History of American Revolution

SOME TERMS:

Stamp Act
virtual representation
taxation without representation
republicanism
mixed government
the British constitution
financial revolution
internal vs. external taxation
John Dickinson
Tea act
Quebec Act
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
“Free and Independent States”
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris of 1783
confederation
Articles of Confederation
the impost
Rhode Island and the confederation
Shays’ Rebellion
James Madison
“The Vices of the Political System”
Federalist #10
Faction
Constitutional ratifying conventions
antifederalists
Religious establishment clause of the first amendment
the French Revolution and American politics
Hamilton’s financial program
the excise
the Whiskey Rebellion
Haitian Revolution
Lousiana purchase and American politics
commander-in-chief
the office of secretary of state in the early republic
The War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
the transformation of northern society
democratization
closing of the international slave trade
the task system
abolitionism
antislavery
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
Seneca Falls Convention
temperance movement
Whig party
Whig party oratory
bank veto
Andrew Jackson & the veto
Catherine Beecher
second party system
Henry Clay’s American System
Second Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
the Caucus
John C. Calhoun and the theory of concurrent majorities
Kansas-Nebraska act
Anti-Nebraska Party
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Law
Mexican War
The Wilmot Proviso
Nullification
Nat Turner’s Rebellion