Study Guide – Unit 3 – Building a New Nation

Date Due	Assignment
Mon., Sept. 22	1. Read p. 189 – 201 (to The Philadelphia Convention) 2. Reading questions 1- 4 3. Analyze the documents from the 1986 DBQ and figure out how they would fit in the chart you made in question #4. Do not spend more than 10 minutes on this.
Tues., Sept. 23	1. Read p. 201 – 206 2. Reading questions 5 – 7 3. Read your assigned article and make summarizing notes in the margin. Be able to discuss the author’s main points.
Weds., Sept 24	1. Read p. 206 – 214 (to The Rise of Political Parties) 2. Answer questions 8 - 9 3. Worksheet contrasting Contrast Federalists and Republicans (Side One) 4. Read the excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address make a list of the major points that he made in it. 5. Review your summary of chapters two and four from The Founding Brothers
Thurs., Sept. 25	1. Read p. 214 - 229 2. Answer questions 10 – 12 3. Do Fed/Rep chart through Sedition Act 4. Read the excerpts from the Kentucky Resolutions and make marginal notes to summarize the main points.
Fri., Sept. 26	1. Read p. 229 – 234 (to middle of the page and the election of Madison) 2. Answer questions 13 – 14 3. Read the excerpts Jefferson’s First Inaugural and take margin notes. Be able to discuss the review questions (but you don’t need to write out formal answers.) 4. Think about the points that you want to make in your presentation for your Roundtable project.
Ex- Day Tues. – Sept. 30	Roundtable Presentations
Weds., Oct. 1	1. Read p. 234 – 236 (to The War of 1812) 2. Prepare for the Debate on the War of 1812
Thurs., Oct. 2	1. Read p. 236 - 247 2. Answer questions 15 - 16 3. Fill out chart on War of 1812 4. Finish Fed/Rep. worksheet
Fri., Oct. 3	1. Read p. 248 – 260 (to the Southern Social Order) 2. Answer questions 17 – 19 3. Read the two sources on the Missouri Compromise and make a list of the arguments on each side
Tues., Oct. 7	1. Read p. 260 - 275 2. Answer questions 20 – 23
Weds., Oct. 8	1. Everyone do Washington’s presidential chart 2. Do your assigned presidential chart and make copies for your group 3. Read the letters from de Tocqueville and take margin notes on his portrayal of American society
Thurs., Oct. 9	DBQ
Fri., Oct. 10	Test

Reading Questions

1.	Summarize the information on the new state constitutions and legislatures.
2.	What basic policies of the Land Ordinance and Northwest Ordinance served as guidelines for further expansion westward? What long-range consequences do you foresee from the NW Ordinance?
3.	What was the financial crisis that led to the Constitutional Convention? What effect did Shays’s Rebellion have?
4.	Make a chart of the strengths (accomplishments) and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
5.	Make a chart summarizing the Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, and the final Constitution in terms of representation, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
6.	Outline the other compromises and decisions made at the Convention.
7.	Identify the major arguments of the supporters and opponents of the Constitution.
8.	How was the Executive Branch under Washington organized?
9.	Outline the elements of Hamilton’s economic plan. What were the arguments for and against his plan?
10.	How did foreign affairs affect the growth of political parties?
11.	Summarize the information on the following items: the XYZ Affair, Naturalization Act, Alien Act, Sedition Act, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800
12.	Summarize the information on westward expansion, agricultural economy, and transportation.
13.	To what extent did Jefferson continue or alter/abolish Federalist policies? Make a chart with examples.
14.	Make a chart of everything that your text tells you about the domestic and foreign policies in Jefferson’s presidency .
15.	Summarize the economic information about this period.
16.	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.
17.	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?
18.	How did marriage, the role of women, and family life change in this period? Make a list.
19.	What were the issues involved in the Missouri Compromise? What was the final deal?
20.	Summarize or make a bullet list of the information on Southern society.
21.	Summarize or make a list of the information on slave life and free blacks.
22.	What was the Second Great Awakening and how did it affect American society?

Questions and Themes for Unit Three: Building a New Nation

o The accomplishments and weaknesses of the Confederation government

o The events that led to the Constitutional Convention

o The extent to which the Constitution addressed the problems of the Articles of Confederation

o The major compromises made at the Constitutional Convention

o The arguments for and against ratification of the Constitution

o How did the Federalists obtain ratification

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?

Identifications

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