Early American Politics Study Guide
1. Study your vocabulary words
2. List the Foreign Policies under each president
a. Washington
d. Madison
b. Adams
e. Monroe
c. Jefferson
3. List the Domestic Policies under each president
a. Washington
d. Madison
b. Adams
e. Monroe
c. Jefferson
4. Why were the French rebelling against their government?
5. What was the Neutrality Proclamation? Who issued it?
6. What was the XYZ Affair?
7. What is the main cause of Jefferson’s Embargo and Non-Intercourse act?
8. Who are the War Hawks?
9. Whom were two War Hawks mentioned in the presentation?
10. Whom did we fight during the War of 1812? What else was this war called?
11. What is the Monroe Doctrine? (explain who is was addressed to, the demands, and what
the US promised it would do)
12. What were Alexander Hamilton’s four plans to relieve American Revolutionary War
debt?
13. Who were the main opponents of Alexander Hamilton’s plans?
14. How did Hamilton say he would pay off Revolutionary War Bonds?
15. What was his Tariff plan? Why did the South oppose it?
16. What was the purpose of the Whiskey Tax? Who rebelled against it?
17. Unlike Shay’s Rebellion, how was the Whiskey Rebellion dealt with?
18. What did the Whiskey Rebellion prove about the new Federal government?
19. What two parts of the First Amendment did the Seditions Act violate?
20. What are the Alien Acts? Why did the Republicans oppose it?