Study Guide – Unit 3 – Building a New Nation

Date Due	Assignment
Mon., Sept. 21	1. Read p. 193 - 200 2. Download from the Lesson Units section of my website the excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address and read them. 3. Answer questions 1 - 4 4. Start filling in the Worksheet contrasting the Federalists and Republicans (through Jay’s Treaty). perspective in class. 5. Look at the pictures on p. 176 and read the points about how Washington became a symbol for America.
Tues., Sept. 22	1. Read p. 200 - 208 2. Read the excerpts from the Kentucky Resolutions on p. 178 – 180 in the Docs Book. 3. Look at the cartoon on p. 214 of the Docs book to get a feel for the political passions of the period. 4. Answer questions 5 - 8 5. Keep filling out the Federalist/Republican worksheet.
Weds., Sept. 23	1. Read p. 208 – 218 2. Read the Hartford Convention Resolution on p. 199 – 200 of the Docs book. Be prepared to connect their resolutions to explaining the reasons for their discontentment. 3. Answer questions 9 – 12 4. Keep filling out the Federalist/Republican worksheet. Be prepared to argue the factional perspectives at the time.
Thurs., Sept. 24	Come in prepared to debate events and issues from 1789 – 1809 from the point of view of your assigned Founder. You should also have prepared questions with which to challenge the other Founders.
Tues., Sept. 29	Prepare for the Debate on the War of 1812 by printing out and reading the documents posted on my website
Weds., Sept. 30	1. Read p. 218 – 223 and p. 225 – the top of p. 231 2. Answer questions 13 – 17 3. Finish Fed/Rep. worksheet
Thurs., Oct. 1	1. Read p. 231 – 244 (to Toward a New Southern Social Order) 2. Answer questions 18 – 22
Fri., Oct. 2.	1. Read p. 244 – 253 2. Read de Tocqueville’s discussion of religion in America on p. 227 – 229 in the Docs Book 3. Answer questions 23 – 26 4. Presidential Charts due before 8:30 AM today.
Mon., Oct. 5	DBQ Due
Tues., Oct. 6	Review for the test
Weds., Oct. 7	Test

Reading Questions

1.	What did the 1789 Congress accomplish?
2.	Outline the elements of Hamilton’s economic plan. Summarize the arguments for and against his plan either here or in your chart.
3.	How did foreign affairs affect the growth of political parties? Make sure you’re familiar with the debates over the French Revolution and Jay’s Treaty as you put that in your chart.
4.	Read the excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address and make a list/outline of his major points
5.	Summarize the information on the following items: the growth of political parties, the XYZ Affair, Naturalization Act, Alien Act, Sedition Act, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800
6.	Read the excerpts from the Kentucky Resolution and summarize the main points.
7.	Summarize the information on westward expansion. What were the various approaches that the new nation adopted with Native Americans?
8.	Summarize the information the agricultural economy. What groups were migrating into the new southern territories and northwestern territories? How was agriculture changing?
9.	Make a chart of everything that your text tells you about the domestic and foreign policies in Jefferson’s presidency.
10.	To what extent did Jefferson continue or alter/abolish Federalist policies? Make a chart with examples.
11.	What issues exacerbated tensions with Britain and France? Identify: the Chesapeake incident, Embargo Act of 1807, Tecumseh and the battle of Tippecanoe,
12.	What happened in the Hartford Convention? How did the War of 1812, as the book says, usher “in a new phase of the Republican political revolution?”
13.	How did John Marshall mold a Federalist interpretation of law? Summarize the issues and significance of the following important Supreme Court cases: Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Fletcher v. Peck, and Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
14.	Summarize foreign policy during the Monroe administration. Include the Rush Bagot Treaty, Convention of 1818, Adams-Onis Treaty, and the Monroe Doctrine.
15.	What are the arguments for and against calling this the “Era of Good Feeling?”
16.	Summarize the economic information about this period. How was the economy changing? What policies were the federal and state governments taking and how did these policies lead to the Panic of 1819? How did state economic policies create a new political economy?
17.	List the major forms of transportation in various regions in this time. What was the role of state government in these developments?
18.	Summarize or make a bullet list of the social and political changes of this period. How were states starting to become both more and less democratic?
19.	How did marriage, the role of women, and family life change in this period? Make a list. What was Republican motherhood? What was the goal of education in this period and how did people like Parson Weems, Noah Webster, and Washington Irvin work to achieve that goal?
20.	Trace the changing attitudes and developments towards slavery from the Revolution through to Prosser’s Rebellion in 1800.
21.	How was the attitude towards slavery changing in the North and the South? Include the founding of both the American Colonization Society and the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
22.	What were the issues involved in the Missouri Compromise? What was the final deal?
23.	How were the roles of religion and the state changing in this period?
24.	What was the Second Great Awakening and how did it affect American society?
25.	How were women’s religious roles changing?
26.	After reading de Tocqueville on religion in the Docs book, summarize the points that he is making about religion in America.

Questions and Themes for Unit Three: Building a New Nation

o Precedents that Washington set as the first president

o Hamilton’s financial program

o The development of political parties: What issues separated them? How did domestic and foreign policy questions influence the development of parties? Was this development inevitable?

o What were foreign policy questions during the Washington presidency

o What did Washington warn America about in his Farewell Address? Was he justified in his warnings?

o How did the division between the parties deepen during Adams’ presidency?

o How close did we come to war with France during Adams’ presidency?

o What was the meaning of the election of 1800? What is truly a ‘revolution’ as Jefferson said?

o How did Jefferson continue or alter Federalist policies?

o What was the impact of Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory?

o What were foreign policy questions during Jefferson’s presidency? How did he work to avoid war? Was he effective?

o Do Jefferson and Washington deserve to be rated as great presidents?

o What were the issues that led us to war in 1812?

o What was the impact of the War of 1812?

o What led to the collapse of the Federalist Party?

o What were the foreign policy accomplishments of the Monroe administration?

o Was it truly an Era of Good Feelings? Were there underlying tensions?

o What divisions existed between the North and South in this time?

o How did society become more democratic in this period?

o What were the economic developments during this period?

o How were the roles of women and the family changing?

o What was the role of religion in this period? How did it affect American society?

Identifications

1.	The Critical Period	28.	Jay’s Treaty	55.	Henry Clay
2.	Robert Morris	29.	Whiskey Rebellion	56.	Battle of Lake Erie
3.	Northwest Ordinance	30.	Pinckney’s Treaty	57.	Burning of Washington
4.	Shays’s Rebellion	31.	Battle of Fallen Timbers and “Mad” Anthony Wayne	58.	Fort McHenry and Francis Scott Key
5.	Annapolis Convention	32.	Treaty of Greenville	59.	Hartford Convention
6.	Constitutional Convention	33.	Neutrality Proclamation	60.	Battle of New Orleans
7.	James Madison	34.	Citizen Genet	61.	Andrew Jackson
8.	Virginia Plan	35.	Washington’s Farewell Address	62.	Marbury v. Madison
9.	New Jersey Plan	36.	Naturalization Act	63.	judicial review
10.	Connecticut or Great Compromise	37.	Alien Act	64.	McCulloch v. Maryland
11.	3/5 Compromise	38.	Sedition Act	65.	Gibbons v. Ogden
12.	Federalists and Antifederalists	39.	Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions	66.	Fletcher v. Peck
13.	The Federalist Papers	40.	Doctrine of Nullification	67.	Dartmouth College v. Woodward
14.	Alexander Hamilton	41.	“Revolution of 1800”	68.	Era of Good Feeling
15.	John Jay	42.	Twelfth Amendment	69.	Panic of 1819
16.	Judiciary Act of 1789	43.	Judiciary Act of 1801	70.	Republican Motherhood
17.	Bill of Rights	44.	John Marshall	71.	Sentimentalism
18.	Washington’s Cabinet	45.	Louisiana Purchase	72.	Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin
19.	Report on the Public Credit	46.	Lewis and Clark Expedition	73.	Gabriel Prosser
20.	Assumption Plan	47.	Wilkinson - Burr Conspiracy	74.	Denmark Vesey
21.	National Bank	48.	Barbary Pirates	75.	Tallmadge Amendment
22.	Strict and Loose Interpretation	49.	Chesapeake and Leopard incident	76.	Missouri Compromise
23.	“ “Necessary and Proper” clause	50.	Embargo Act of 1807	77.	Rush-Bagot Treaty
24.	Report on Manufacturers	51.	Nonintercourse Act	78.	Adams-Onis (Transcontinental) Treaty
25.	tariffs	52.	Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)	79.	Second Bank of the U.S.
26.	French Revolution	53.	Tecumseh and Battle of Tippecanoe	80.	Panic of 1819
27.	Proclamation of Neutrality	54.	William Henry Harrison	81.	Second Great Awakening