Unit 1 Study Guide
(Use Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3 Study Guides to prepare for your Six Weeks Test.)
I Have you read Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.1?
Have you read Washington’s Farewell Address? (p. R74 in your book)
II Do you know the significance of each of the following? (Vocabulary)
Funding cabinet excise tax protective tariff federalist
Whiskey Rebellion republican implied powers Gazette of the U.S. neutrality
National Gazette Jay’s Treaty Pinckney’s Treaty Battle of Fallen Timbers
XYZ Affair Alien & Sedition Acts embargo Virginia and Kentucky Resolves
Marbury v. Madison midnight judges judicial review Louisiana Purchase impressment
Lewis & Clark Expedition war hawks Cheasepeake
Treaty of Ghent Battle of Tippecanoe Adams-Onis Treaty Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise Rush-Bagot Treaty Battle of New Orleans
III Do you know the significance of each of the following people?
John Fenno Philip Freneau Edmund Genet John Jay William Clark
Meriwether Lewis Tecumseh Olivier Hazard Perry Andrew Jackson
James Madison John C. Calhoun John Quincey Adams William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson John Adams Alexander Hamilton
IV Can you answer the following questions? (essential questions)
Ø What are the roots of the American nation?
Ø Why was the U.S. considered a “nation at risk” between 1789 – 1820?
Ø Describe the changing role of various racial, ethnic, religious and political groups in society.
Ø How did territorial expansion affect the U.S.?
Other questions to consider when studying for Unit 1.
v Who was in Washington’s cabinet?
v What were the reasons for and the reactions to Hamilton’s financial plan?
v What was the debate over the formation of the national bank and political parties?
v What are the provisions of the Monroe Doctrine? How was the U.S. expecting to enforce it?
v What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise and why did lawmakers of the time feel that the compromise was necessary?