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American History Honors                Chapter 6: Launching the New Nation (1790-1815)

Guided Reading and Notes Assignment: Washington ŕ Jefferson, 1789-1809

 

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE:

            A mod – Thursday, September 28, 2006 in class

            B mod – Friday, September 29, 2006 in class

 

Guided Reading and Class Notes (Homework/Classwork Grade)

Instructions: Answer the following questions or items in notes format.  Use this to help your understanding of the material.

 

6.1 Washington Heads the New Government

 

Who did Washington chose for his first “cabinet” and why were these good choices?

 

 

 

 

What was the Judiciary Act of 1789 and why was it needed?

 

 

 

Why did federal law have to be “the supreme law of the land” in the new nation?

 

 

 

 

What was included in Hamilton’s Financial Program?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why was Hamilton’s program opposed?

 

 

 

 

How did Jefferson’s and Hamilton’s view of government differ?

 

 

 

 

 

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

 

How did the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans differ from each other?

 

 

 

 

 

What important advice did Washington leave his countrymen in his farewell address of 1796?

 

 

 

 

6.2 Foreign Affairs Trouble the Nation

 

How did Washington respond to the French Revolution?  Why?

 

 

 

 

What was the Citizen Genęt affair?

 

 

 

Pinckney’s Treaty (1795) –

 

 

Why did the United States want access to the Mississippi River?

 

 

 

 

Give a timeline of how Native Americans resisted white settlement, and the problems it created for the new government: (subsection 2 – pages 192-194)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jay’s Treaty (1794) and criticism –

 

 

 

How did political parties affect the results of the Election of 1796?

 

 

 

 

XYZ Affair and significance –

 

 

 

Alien and Sedition Acts?  Significance?  Jefferson and Madison’s Reaction?

 

 

 

 

6.3 Jefferson Alters the Nation’s Course

 

Election of 1800 – how was it a revolution?

 

 

 

How did Jefferson change the presidency?  How did his actions reflect his personal philosophy of government?

 

 

 

Explain: Judiciary Act of 1801, midnight judges, Marbury v. Madison, judicial review

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make an outline for subsection 3: “The United States expands west”