Sunday, March 24, 2013

Chapter 8 Study Guide

Vocabulary to Know:
1. Anti-federalist
2. Convention of 1800
3. unconstitutional
4. doctrine of nullification
5. nullify
6. First Amendment
7. Twelfth Amendment
8. repeal
9. secession
10. right of deposit
11. Columbia River
12. Corps of Discovery
13. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
14. dictator
15. continental divide
16. Barbary pirates
17. impressment
People to Know:
1. Zebulon Pike
2. Aaron Burr
3. Charles L'Enfant
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Toussaint L'Ouverture
6. Charles Pinkney
Concepts to Know:
1. Events and outturn of the election of 1800
2. The effects of the purchase of the Louisiana territory
3. Motives behind the Sedition Act
4. Significance of the case of Marbury V. Madison
5. The significance of the statement "We are all Republicans-we are all Federalists"
Essays:
1. What type of information did Thomas Jefferson request that Lewis and Clark collect on their expedition? Give at least six examples and tell how they collected that information.
2. Why did the United States wish to purchase New Orleans? Why did France eventually agree to the Louisiana Purchase?

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Chapter Seven Governing the United States

Terms to Know:
1. bank notes        
2 Federalists   
3. Security  
4.Speculators     
5. Democratic-Republicans    
6. government bonds         
7. right of deposit     
8. elastic clause       
9. Market     
10. necessary and proper clause
11.Capitalism    
12. Tariff Act of 1789            
13. profit
People to Know:

1. Edmund Randolph     
2. Alexander Hamilton   
3. "Citizen" Genet     
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Talleyrand
Ideas and Concepts to Review:

1. What did the government add to the Constitution that reassured the people that they wouldn't have too much power?
2. General knowledge of the Bill of Rights
3. Know the policies and ideas supported by the following people:

a. Hamilton                                           
b. Jefferson
 
4. The purpose and use of the necessary and proper clause
5. Washington's Farewell Address
6. Alien and Sedition Acts
7. Election of 1796 - plans, conspiracies, outcome
8. XYZ Affair
9. Departments created in Washington's presidency
10. Battle of Fallen Timbers

Essay Questions:
Please prepare for these essays:

1. How did Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson each use the necessary and proper clause of the Constitution to support their opinions on the constitutionality of establishing the Bank of the United States?

2. Why was George Washington a good choice to be the first president of the United States?