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Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754%u20131800*Themes that align to this time period in the AP%u00ae Course and Exam Description are marked with an asterisk.Thematic UnderstandingSOCIAL STRUCTURES* AMERICA IN THE WORLD* POLITICS AND POWER* GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT WORK, EXCHANGE, AND TECHNOLOGY1760 1780 1800 18201763 France and Spain cede all their territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the first Treaty of Paris1778%u20131779 U.S. alliances with France and Spain virtually ensure a Patriot victory1812%u20131815 The War of 18121823 The Monroe Doctrine asserts American leadership in the Western Hemisphere1793%u20131798 The French Revolution divides Americans1775%u20131783 American Revolutionary War1774 First Continental Congress debates responses to the Coercive Acts1765 Stamp Act Congress petitions the king1776 Declaration of Independence1787 U.S. Constitution drafted1790 Coalition of Native Americans form Western Confederacy1775%u20131781 Second Continental Congress organizes for war1796%u20131815 First national parties: Federalists and Republicans1765%u20131774 Patriots mount three boycotts of British goods1790%u20131792 Conflict over Alexander Hamilton%u2019s economic policies1791 Bank of the United States founded1794 Whiskey producers rebel against taxes1794 Invention of cotton gin stimulates boom in cotton production1807 Jefferson enacts embargo against U.S. shipping to foreign ports to pressure Britain and France to recognize U.S. neutrality1765%u20131780 The idea of natural rights challenges the institution of chattel slavery1798 Sedition Act limits freedom of the press1779 Judith Sargent Murray publishes %u201cOn the Equality of the Sexes%u201d1791 Bill of Rights ratified; guarantees freedom of assembly, worship, speech, press1793%u20131803 Thousands of refugees from the Haitian Revolution arrive in American ports1803 The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubles the size of the United States1763%u20131775 The trans-Appalachian west attracts the interest of settlers and investors1804%u20131806 Lewis and Clark explore the Far West1770%u20131781 Native Americans in the Ohio country resist Anglo-American expansion1784%u20131789 Western land ordinances and sham treaties with Native Americans open the Ohio country to settlement%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.