Study Questions: Chapter Three
1) Describe the Articles of Confederation.
2) What led to inflation during the Articles of Confederation?
3) How did the British’s trade policies during the Articles of Confederation
backfire?
4) Why didn’t some British soldiers leave after the American Revolution?
5) Compare and contrast Shay’s Rebellion and Bacon’s Rebellion.
6) What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 accomplish?
7) What occurred during the Constitutional Convention?
8) Compare and contrast the New Jersey Plan, the Virginia Plan, and the Great
Compromise.
9) What are the three branches of government under the new Constitution?
10)
Describe the connection between the Anti-Federalists and the Bill of
Rights.
11)
Who wrote the Federalist Papers?
12)
Summarize the Bill of Rights.
13)
What is the significance of Washington’s cabinet?
14)
Compare and contrast the beliefs of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas
Jefferson.
15)
Why did Hamilton want a National Bank?
16)
Compare strict constitutionalism/constructionism with loose
constitutionalism/constructionism.
17)
Why did Hamilton think National Debt was a good thing?
18)
Why did Citizen Edmond Genet come to America?
19)
What is the Neutrality Proclamation, what was it made in response
to, and how does it connect to Washington’s farewell address?
20)
What were the first two political parties in America?
21)
How is the Whiskey Rebellion different from Shay’s Rebellion?
22)
Why did James Madison become a Democratic-Republican?
23)
Why was Jay’s Treaty a failure?
24)
Why was Pinckney’s Treaty a success?
25)
What is executive privilege?
26)
What is Republican Motherhood, and how does it connect to
feminism?
27)
What was the XYZ Affair?
28)
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
29)
What is nullification, and how does it connect to the Civil War?
30)
What makes the Election of 1800 particularly significant?
31)
What is the 12th Amendment, and why was it created?
32)
What were the midnight appointments?
33)
How does judicial review, as established by John Marshall, connect to
the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison?
34)
Why did Napoleon sell the whole Louisiana Territory to James
Monroe?
35)
Why did Federalists disapprove of Jefferson’s purchase?
36)
Why did Democratic-Republicans disapprove of Jefferson’s purchase?
37)
What happened to Aaron Burr?
38)
What does impressing sailors mean?
39)
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
40)
What is the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809?
41)
What’s Macon’s Bill No. 2?
42)
What happened during Tecumseh’s rebellion?
43)
What is the significance of the Treaty of Ghent?
44)
How does the Hartford Convention connect to the downfall of the
Federalists?
45)
How did the war of 1812 impact American manufacturing?
46)
What did James Madison attempt to achieve in terms of domestic
infrastructure?
47)
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
48)
What was the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland?
49)
What happened during the Panic of 1819?
50)
Who was President James Monroe’s Secretary of State?
51)
What did John Quincy Adams accomplish in terms of foreign policy?
52)
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
53)
What happened as a result of the Missouri Compromise?