Topic #5 Overview Sheet
 

Sources:

• document:  United States Constitution. 
• worksheet:  "The United States Constitution."
• simulation:  "Constitutional Convention." & Proposed Plans Page

Terms:

• 3/5s clause
• elastic clause
• federalism

• strict constructionist
• loose [broad] constructionist
• checks & balances

Sources:

• textbook:  mid-pg. 166 - pg. 178.   
• chart: "Early Political Parties."
• document:  "Washington's Farewell Address."  [1796]
• document:  Alien and Sedition Acts [1798].
• document:  Kentucky Resolution [1798].
• PowerPoint:  "Election Results:  1792-1800."

Questions:

1. What were the reasons for the Whiskey Rebellion?  Who was it aimed at particularly?
2. How did Washington's reaction to the Whiskey Rebellion underscore the difference between the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation?
3. How did the government under the Constitution guarantee that people on the frontier would be loyal to it?  What was the impact on Native Americans?
4. What diplomatic problems did the French Revolution and the war that followed pose for the United States?  How did Washington and Congress deal with this problem?
5. What were the circumstances that sent John Jay to England?  What were the results of his mission?
6. How did Jay's Treaty affect American relations with Spain?
7. Why was John Adams selected as the Federalist candidate in 1796?
8. What circumstances led to an administration with a Federalist president and a Republican vice president?
9. What caused the "quasi-war" with France during the Adams administration?  What was the result of this struggle?
10. How did the Federalists attempt to silence those who opposed the undeclared war, and what groups did these attempts most affect?
11. What gave rise to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?  What attitude toward the nature of the federal government did these Resolutions reveal?
12. What were the key issues in the 1800 presidential election?  Why is it called the "Revolution of 1800?"

Terms:

• Whiskey Rebellion
• Edmond Genêt
• Jay's Treaty (1795)
• Pinckney's Treaty (1795)
• XYZ Affair
• Quasi-French War
• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
• Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
• nullification
• "Revolution of 1800"
• Aaron Burr
• Judiciary Act (1801)
• "Midnight Judges"

• 12th. Amendment
• Federalists
• Anti-Federalists
• Bill of Rights
• The Federalist Papers
• Anti-Federalist Papers
• Judiciary Act of 1789
• Alexander Hamilton
• assumption
• 11th. Amendment
• Report on Public Credit (1790)
• Report on Manufactures (1791)
• First Bank of the U. S.
• Democratic-Republicans

Quizzes:

1. Textbook Quizzes --> chapter 6
2. My Quizzes --> A   B   C   D

Outlines / Lecture Notes / Review Sheets:

1. Giant AHAP Review Sheet by a student from the class of '04, Horace Greeley HS
2. Lecture outline --> "Building a New Nation" (Prof. David McGee, Central Virginia Community College)
3. Note Cards -->  201-250  ;   251-300
4. Timeline- 1751 to 1800
5. Presidential Election Data --> 1789    1792    1796    1800
6. Cram Sheet --> 1700-1789:  Washington Through Monroe

Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing

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