Chapter 6

1.    For what reason did elitist revolutionary leaders want to limit the extent of republicanism in America?

2.    What movement by state governments indicated a trend toward greater popular participation in governmental decision making?

3.    What significant power did the national government lack under the Articles of Confederation?

4.    Identify two of five challenges that the United States faced upon its creation.

5.    How did the Continental Congress eventually cajole Maryland into ratifying the Articles of Confederation?

6.    Congress lacked the power to tax under the Articles of Confederation.  Identify two means to which Congress resorted to meet its war costs?

7.    What plan called for import duties of 5% on all foreign trade goods entering the United States?

8.    How did the British retaliate economically against America’s independence in 1783?

9.    What was responsible to bringing about Shay’s Rebellion?

10. What did the handling of Shay’s rebellion demonstrate to the nation’s political leaders at that time?

11. In addition to official toleration what else did dissenting religious groups want to end?

12. For what reason did many war veterans not benefit from land warrant certificates they received as compensation of long-term military service?

13. For what reason was it dangerous to settle north of the Ohio River?

14. In what way did Massachusetts break new ground in public education 1789?

15. How did Pennsylvania’s emancipation law gradually free slaves within the state?

16. Identify one trend in the South that spurred hope that the slave trade was in decline in that region?

17. In addition to supporting Jefferson’s lifestyle, for what additional reason was he unwilling to free his slaves?

18. In addition to spiritual support, what other opportunity did black churches offer their believers?

19. What plan, proposed by James Madison, outlined a three-tiered structure of government with an executive branch, a bicameral legislature, and separate judicial branch?

20. What plan of government proposed by William Paterson, retained equal voting for all the states in a unicameral legislature and granted Congress the powers to tax and regulate commerce with the central government?

21. What was the “Great Compromise”?

22. What was the “Three-fifths Compromise”?

23. Although the “Three-fifths Compromise” gave constitutional recognition to slavery, what clause was included in the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1787 that historians believe was a concession to Northern interests in exchange for the three-fifths compromise?

24. In electing the President, how did the delegates insulate the office from manipulation of public opinion?

25. What series of newspaper essays explained the workings of the new Constitution and called for its ratification?

Chapter 7

26. In what respect did the Tenth Amendment seek to reassure Antifederalists that the powers of the new government were limited?

27. In what way did Britain violate the peace treaty of 1783 ending the Revolutionary War?

28. Identify one activity in which Britain engaged that nearly led the United States into with her in 1794?

29. In what way did Spain violate the peace treaty of 1783 ending the Revolutionary War?

30. Why did Alexander Hamilton’s plan of the federal government assuming the entire indebtedness of the federal and state governments cause a firestorm among a number of states?

31. What did Alexander Hamilton promise to support in exchange for southern votes for his plan to assume federal and state war debts?

32. In what respect did Alexander Hamilton’s economic vision of America differ from that of Thomas Jefferson’s?

33. Why did President Washington take the position of neutrality when a European war broke out trying to crush the French Revolution?

34. For what reason was President Washington under pressure to support France while Europe attempted to crush the French Revolution?

35. Identify one activity that French minister Edmond Charles Genet engaged in (while in the United States) that threaten to entangle the U.S. into a European war?

36. In what respect did Hamilton’s program to pay off America’s war debts spawn an uprising in western Pennsylvania?

37. What criticism did Jefferson make regarding the administration’s handling of the Whiskey Rebellion?

38. Identify one activity in which the British engaged in 1794 that threaten war with the United States?

39. What did the Indians receive at the Treaty of Greenville in exchange for U.S. control of the Ohio River valley?

40. What principle did George Washington establish by refusing to turn over all documents relating to the negotiation of the Jay Treaty?

41. To what did Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain give Americans the right in 1795?

42. Identify one of two warnings that Washington issued to Americans in his Farewell Address in 1796?

43. In what way did the system for choosing the President and Vice President result in contentious administrations with the development of political parties?

44. How did France respond to what they believe to be a tilt toward Britain in the Jay Treaty?

45. How did President Adams respond to France’s refusal to negotiate an end to the French seizure of American commercial ships?

46. What popular slogan was chanted across America as people responded angrily to the XYZ affair?

47. What threat did John Adams make in 1799 to coerce extreme Federalists in Congress to support a plan to restore diplomatic relations with France?

48. What acts passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress attempted to stamp out sympathy for revolutionary France in 1789?

49. In what way did the challenge made by Virginia and Kentucky over the Alien and Sedition Acts contribute to the future Civil War?

50. In what respect did John Adams follow Washington’s example in dealing with the leader of Fries Rebellion?