AP American History Review Sheet
Colonial Period to Revolutionary War



1. American Indian Tribes: economies, cultures, impact of Europeans
2. American Identity, factors contributing to
3. Albany Congress, Albany Plan of Union (Ben Franklin)
4. Anglican Church
5. Anne Hutchinson
6. Boston Massacre
7. Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
8. Calvinism, Predestination, Puritan Work Ethic
9. Chesapeake Region, characteristics, development, economy, social structure
10. Colonizing Nations—Spanish, French, Dutch, English colonies; nature of each
11. Committees of Correspondence
12. Common Sense
13. Continental Congress
14. Declaratory Act, 1766
15. Declaration of Independence
16. Deism
17. Enlightenment Philosophy
18. French and Indian War, causes, impact
19. Fundamental Orders
20. George Washington
21. George Bancroft—explanation for American Revolution
22. Great Awakening, cause, impact, important people
23. Grenville Program
24. Halfway Covenant
25. Harvard
26. Headright System
27. Homespun
28. House of Burgesses
29. Indentured Servitude
30. James Oglethorpe
31. Jamestown
32. John Dickenson, Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer
33. John Cotton
34. John Peter Zenger Trial
35. John Smith
36. John Winthrop—“City on the Hill”
37. King Phillips War 1675-1676
38. Lawrence Gibson—explanation for American Revolution
39. Lexington and Concord
40. Loyalists
41. Louis Hacker—explanation for American Revolution
42. Maryland Toleration Act
43. Mayflower Compact
44. Mercantilism: purpose, tenets of
45. Middle Colonies, characteristics, development, economy
46. Nathanial Bacon
47. Navigation Acts 1650-1750; Woolens Act, Hat Act, Iron Act
48. New Colonial Policy
49. New England Region, characteristics, development, economy
50. Patriots
51. Pilgrims, Puritans
52. Poor Richard’s Almanac
53. Power of the Purse
54. Proclamation of 1763
55. Quartering Act
56. Roger Williams
57. Revolutionary War—Advantages of each side
58. Salutary Neglect
59. Slave Codes
60. Slave Culture; religion, music, language
61. Sons of Liberty
62. Stamp Act, purpose, response
63. Tidewater Aristocracy
64. Town Meetings
65. Townshend Acts
66. Triangular Trade
67. Virtual Representation
68. William Berkeley
69. William Pitt
70. Women: legal rights, role in society, impact of marriage
71. Whigs
72. Writs of Assistance