Study Guide – Unit 3 – Building a New Nation

Date Due	Assignment
Tues., Sept. 16	1. Read p. 196 – 207 2. Reading questions 1- 7 3. Read through the DBQ docs and figure out how you could fit each document into the chart that you made for question 7. Do NOT spend more than 10 minutes doing this. Relax, you don’t have to write an essay.
Weds., Sept. 17	1. Read p. 207 – 214 2. Reading questions 8 – 10
Thurs., Sept. 18	1. Read p. 214 – 221 2. Read the excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address make a list of the major points that he made in it. 3. Answer questions 11 - 14 4. Start filling in the Worksheet contrasting the Federalists and Republicans (through Jay’s Treaty). perspective in class. 5. Pull out and review your notes from The Founding Brothers for Chapter Two: “The Dinner”
Fri., Sept. 19	1. Read p. 221 – 225 and p. 227 – 237 2. Read the excerpts from the Kentucky Resolutions 2. Answer questions 15 – 19 3. Keep filling out the Federalist/Republican worksheet, Keep being prepared to argue the perspectives at the time. 4. Review your notes from The Founding Brothers for Chapter Five: “The Collaborators.”
Tues., Sept. 23	1. Read p. 237 – 242 2. Answer questions 20 – 22
Weds., Sept. 24	Roundtable Presentations
Thurs., Sept. 25	1. Prepare for the Debate on the War of 1812 by reading the documents posted on my website http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark2/1812Debate.html
Mon., Sept. 29	1. Read p. 242 – 250 and p. 257 - 265 2. Answer questions 22 - 25 3. Finish Fed/Rep. worksheet
Tues., Sept. 30	1. Read p. 250 – 255 AND 266 – 277 (to Toward a New Southern Social Order) 2. Answer questions 26 - 29
Weds., Oct. 1	1. Read p. 277 - 286 2. Answer questions 30-31
Thurs., Oct. 2	1. Do a Brain Drain – list as many developments as you can in American history since 1789 when the Constitution was adopted. Sort them according to political, economic, social, and diplomatic developments 2. Presidential Charts due before 8:30 AM today.
Mon., Oct. 6	DBQ Due
Tues., Oct. 7	Test

Reading Questions

1.	What were the differences in the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts constitutions?
2.	Make a list of the evidence for the democratic flavor to post-Revolutionary politics.
3.	How had the Revolution affected the role of women?
4.	List the political disputes that the Confederation government faced.
5.	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?
6.	What was the financial crisis that led to Shays’s Rebellion and what effect did it have?
7.	Make a chart of the strengths (accomplishments) and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Try to address this question as you make your chart: “To what extent did the Articles of Confederation from 1781 – 1789 provide the United States with an effective government?”
8.	Make a chart summarizing the Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, and the final Constitution in terms of representation, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
9.	Outline the other compromises and decisions made at the Convention concerning the courts, suffrage, slavery, and power of the federal government.
10.	Identify the major arguments of the supporters and opponents of the Constitution.
11.	What did the 1789 Congress accomplish?
12.	Outline the elements of Hamilton’s economic plan. Summarize the arguments for and against his plan either here or in your chart.
13.	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.
14.	Read the excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address and make a list of his major points
15.	Summarize the information on the following items: the XYZ Affair, Naturalization Act, Alien Act, Sedition Act, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800
16.	Read the excerpts from the Kentucky Resolution and summarize the main points
17.	Summarize the information on westward expansion. What were the various approaches that the new nation adopted with Native Americans?
18.	Summarize the information the agricultural economy. What groups were migrating into the new southern territories and northwestern territories? How was agriculture changing?
19.	List the major forms of transportation in various regions in this time.
20.	To what extent did Jefferson continue or alter/abolish Federalist policies? Make a chart with examples.
21.	Make a chart of everything that your text tells you about the domestic and foreign policies in Jefferson’s presidency .
22.	What issues exacerbated tensions with Britain and France? Identify: the Chesapeake incident, Embargo Act of 1807, Tecumseh and the battle of Tippecanoe,
23.	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?
24.	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?
25.	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?
26.	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.
27.	Summarize or make a bullet list of the information on Southern society. How was the attitude towards slavery changing in the North and the South?
28.	Summarize or make a list of the information on slave life and free blacks. How was slavery changing in this period?
29.	What were the issues involved in the Missouri Compromise? What was the final deal?
30.	What was the Second Great Awakening and how did it affect American society?
31.	How were women’s religious roles changing?

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.	Burning of Washington
6.	Constitutional Convention	32.	Treaty of Greenville	58.	Fort McHenry and Francis Scott Key
7.	James Madison	33.	Neutrality Proclamation	59.	Hartford Convention
8.	Virginia Plan	34.	Citizen Genet	60.	Battle of New Orleans
9.	New Jersey Plan	35.	Washington’s Farewell Address	61.	Andrew Jackson
10.	Connecticut or Great Compromise	36.	Naturalization Act	62.	Marbury v. Madison
11.	3/5 Compromise	37.	Alien Act	63.	judicial review
12.	Federalists and Antifederalists	38.	Sedition Act	64.	McCulloch v. Maryland
13.	The Federalist Papers	39.	Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions	65.	Gibbons v. Ogden
14.	Alexander Hamilton	40.	Doctrine of Nullification	66.	Fletcher v. Peck
15.	John Jay	41.	“Revolution of 1800”	67.	Dartmouth College v. Woodward
16.	Judiciary Act of 1789	42.	Twelfth Amendment	68.	Era of Good Feeling
17.	Bill of Rights	43.	Judiciary Act of 1801	69.	Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin
18.	Washington’s Cabinet	44.	John Marshall	70.	Gabriel Prosser
19.	Report on the Public Credit	45.	Louisiana Purchase	71.	Denmark Vesey
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