Study Guide for Final Exam
American Revolution
2007

The exam will cover the entire semester BUT it will concentrate on the material since the midterm exam. This includes the following:
         Documents:
            Articles of Confederation
            US Constitution
            Beard's Conclusions

        Books:
            Royall Tyler, The Contrast.
                What does this play tell us about republicanism and its values?
                How does it help us to understand what did and did not change with the Revolution?
                        Courtship and marriage, class relations, views on theater and culture, other?

        Topics:
            Causes of the Revolution
            Revolutionary War
            Results of the revolution - what changed and what did not
            Problems of the Confederation period
            Reasons for the Constitution and whether it was necessary
            Major provisions of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
            Characteristics of the founding fathers
            Culture of the period - literature, art, architecture, and music

Previously asked IDS:

3/5th clause
Articles of Confederation
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin West
Charles Beard
Declaratory Act
Dominion theory of empire
Great Compromise
Henry Knox
James Madison
John Adams
John Andre
John Jay
Mercy Otis Warren
Nathaniel Greene
Nathaniel Hale
New Jersey Plan
Newburgh Conspiracy
Northwest Ordinance of 1784
Northwest Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance 1787
paper money
Paul Revere
Parson’s Cause
Patrick Henry
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
Phillis Wheatley
Philip Freneau
republicanism
Robert Morris
Rogues Island
Shays's Rebellion
Stamp Act 
Tea Act
Thomas Paine
Townshend acts
Treaties of Alliance and Commerce
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Paris 1783
Virginia Plan   
 William Paterson