Chapter 7 Review – Please WRITE your answers on a separate sheet of paper in pencil or pen. Staple this sheet to your answer sheet before you turn it in.

1. What was one of the actions the first congressional government undertook in 1789? 2. Approval by Congress and ratification by the states of the Bill of Rights had which of the following outcomes on the morale of the American public? 3. What were the characteristics of Alexander Hamilton’s 1789 financial plan? 4. Why was Hamilton’s financial plan so controversial? 5. To win southern votes for his financial plan, what did Hamilton propose to appease them? 6. What was the critical disagreement that led to the emergence of political parties in the mid-1790s? 7. What were the characteristics of Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the future United States?\ 8. What happened to U.S. earnings through shipping with the passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1793? 9. What was the overall American reaction to the French Revolution? 10. What was the main reason for the start of the Whiskey Rebellion? 11. What was the main significance of the Whiskey Rebellion? 12. List the components of the Jay’s Treaty in 1795. 13. What specific type of individuals would have been likely and unlikely to gravitate toward the Republicans in the late 1790s? 14. Why was Toussaint L’Ouverture a significant figure in the 1790s? 15. What was the result of the Election of 1796 and why was that important for Britain? 16. What was passed by the Federalists’ in response to the Republicans’ criticism of their policies in the 1790s? 17. What impacts did the Naturalization, Alien, and Sedition Acts have on the United States in the 1790s? 18. What was one of the major aspects of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions set forth in 1798? 19. What actions best explain U.S. relations with France during the late 1790s? 20. Why did Thomas Jefferson call his election to the presidency the “Revolution of 1800”? 21. How did the Treaty of Paris address Native Americans living in the Old Northwest? 22. What was Washington’s Secretary of War, Henry Knox, position when it came to Native Americans? 23. Indians ceded much of Ohio and acknowledged American political sovereignty in which Treaty? 24. The southern migrants who moved along the coastal plain toward the Gulf of Mexico between 1790 and 1820 originated in which area? 25. How would you describe migrants who left New England during the 1790s? 26. What was true of New Englanders’ westward migration during the 1790s and 1800s? 27. How did, in 1801, Jefferson respond to the Barbary States and threats against American shipping? 28. How would you describe the federal judiciary at the time Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801? 29. Why was the decision in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803) of great importance in American history? 30. What did Jefferson end, as President that showed disagreement in Hamilton’s policies? 31. Why was Pinckney’s Treaty of 1795 significant?

32. What did Jefferson do to federal land price policies in the Northwest Territory during 1790–1820? 33. Why did Thomas Jefferson decide to attempt to purchase New Orleans in 1801? 34. What was Jefferson’s approach to the opportunity to purchase Louisiana in 1802? 35. What was the immediate cause of the illegal duel in which Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in 1804? 36. Why did Thomas Jefferson dispatch the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804? 37. What impact did the Embargo of 1807 have the American economy? 38. The prophet Tenskwatawa was historically significant for urging Indians to do what? 39. Which region of the Union was known for its support of the declaration of war on England in 1812? 40. What was the Federalists’ response to the War of 1812? 41. Why was the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 significant? 42. What was significant of the postwar election of 1818? 43. What did President James Madison support that contradicted the traditional philosophy of Republicans?

44. Chief Justice John Marshall’s court decisions: (what was the outcome of each) Fletcher v. Peck Gibbons v. Ogden McCullough v. Maryland Dartmouth College v. Woodward

45. What were the stipulations included in the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819? 46. What was significant about the “Era of Good Feeling”?

Short Answer:

47. What were the causes of the War of 1812? Where did Republicans and Federalists stand on declaring and then fighting the war?

48. Why did New England Federalists organize the Hartford Convention in 1814? What was the convention’s impact on American politics?

49. Did the Americans achieve their goals in the War of 1812? Positives? Negatives? Neutral?

50. Congrats. You are done. It would have driven me crazy if there were only 49 questions, so this is #50. 