Guide to Understanding US History

Goal 1: Guide to Understanding US History

Directions: As you read your textbook and take notes from class discussions, answer the following questions in their entirety. The entire packet must be completed and turned in on the day of your ODU for Unit 1. Be thorough—these unit packets will form the bulk of your study guide for the EOC exam. Be brilliant.

1. What was Shay’s Rebellion? How did the Rebellion point out the weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation?

2. What is the difference between a strict and a loose interpretation of the Constitution?

3. Who was the first president of the United States?

4. Explain how Jefferson and Hamilton felt about the following issues

Hamilton’s Opinion Jefferson’s Opinion National Debt

Bank of the United States Whiskey Excise Tax

Protective Tariff

5. What was the significance of Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality (Also called the Proclamation of 1793)?

6. What was the Whiskey Rebellion? What did it prove?

7. What was Jay’s Treaty?

8. How many terms in office did Washington serve and what advice did he give the nation in his farewell address?

9. A person that was a Democratic Republican typically lived in the ______and had a job as a ______. A person that was a Federalist typically lived in the ______and had a job as a ______.

10. What was the Judiciary Act of 1789? 11. What was the X,Y,Z Affair and why did almost cause a war between the United States and France?

12. How were the Alien and Sedition Acts an attempt to silence Republican opposition?

13. What did Thomas Jefferson and James Madison write in retaliation to the Alien and Sedition Acts?

14. What theory did the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves introduce to American politics?

15. Why was the election of 1800 a “revolution?”

16. Who wanted the United States to be an “agrarian republic?”

17. What started because of Marbury v. Madison?

18. What was the Marshall court?

19. Why did Jefferson have a problem with buying the Louisiana Territory?

20. Who explored the Louisiana territory?

21. Why did Jefferson pass the Embargo Act of 1807? How did it affect the US?

22. What were the causes of the War of 1812?

23. What was the nickname for the War of 1812? Why?

24. Who was Francis Scott Key and how was he related to the War of 1812?

25. What was the most significant battle of the war? Who became a national hero?

26. Who fought in the War of 1812? Who won?

27. What treaty was signed to end the war?