Class Preparation Assignment: Chapter 8: Jeffersonianism and the Era of Good Feelings,
1801-1824
You must read the chapter. Use the vocabulary words below, and the “Points to Ponder” to help
focus your reading. By reading thoroughly, you will have the building blocks for class
discussion. Class discussion will revolve around the “Points to Ponder” listed below. You are not
required to write anything for the “Points to Ponder”; however, it would be wise to think them
through prior to class as they will ultimately be used to construct a viable answer to an AP
quality essay.
Vocabulary
Tripolitan (Barbary) pirates
Judiciary Act of 1801
midnight judges
Marbury v. Madison
John Marshall
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sacajawea
Aaron Burr and James Wilkerson conspiracy
British Orders in Council and Napoleon's Continental System
impressment
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Embargo and Non-Intercourse acts
war hawks, John C. Calhoun, and Henry Clay
Tecumseh and the Prophet
William Henry Harrison and the Battles of Tippecanoe and the Thames
Oliver H. Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie
Treaty of Ghent and the status quo ante bellum
Battle of New Orleans
Hartford Convention
Era of Good Feelings
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
McCulloch v. Maryland
Missouri Compromise
John Quincy Adams
Rush-Bagot Treaty and British-American Convention, 1818
Adams-Onís, or Transcontinental, Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
“Points to Ponder”
1. Explain what the Federalists were trying to accomplish with passage of the Judiciary Act of
1801 and appointment of the midnight judges.
2. Explain why Napoleon first forced Spain to cede Louisiana to France, and then turned around
and offered to sell the territory to the United States.
3. Why did President Jefferson want to buy Louisiana from France? Why did the purchase pose a
dilemma for him? How did he justify the purchase?
4. What happened at the Hartford Convention in 1814? What impact did it have on the Federalist
party? Why?
5. Why did Missouri's request for statehood touch off a sectional crisis? How was the crisis
resolved, at least, in the short run?