APUSH
Darnell
Chapters 7 and 8 Reflection
Chapter 7 Reflection Questions:
1. Compare and contrast Shay’s Rebellion of 1786 and the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.
2. Describe Hamilton’s Financial Plan for America.
3. What were Madison’s and Jefferson’s criticisms of Hamilton’s Plan? What was Jefferson’s
Alternative plan? What did Jefferson mean by an “Agrarian Republic”?
4. Create a T-chart reflecting arguments and specific supporting Constitutional evidence for
Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s perspectives on the constitutionality of the United States Bank.
a. How are strict and broad interpretation used differently today?
5. Why did Washington choose American neutrality in 1793 instead of fulfilling perceived
obligations under the Franco-American Alliance?
6. Create a T-chart reflecting the guiding partisan values/principles of the first American political
party system.
7. In what way was the Election of 1800 “Revolutionary”?
8. What did Washington warn us about in his Farewell Address of 1796? What were the short- and
long-term consequences of American compliance/defiance of his warnings?
9. L: How the French Revolution caused the American Civil War!
Chapter 8 Reflection Questions:
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What were the main achievements of Jefferson’s administration?
What was the impact of the Marshall court on the U.S. government?
How did the Louisiana Purchase change the U.S.?
Compare and contrast how a neo-conservative historian and a new-leftist historian might
interpret Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana territory from France.
5. Assess the effectiveness of Jefferson’s and Madison’s Peaceable Coercion.
6. What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812?
7. Compare and contrast the motivations, course and consequences of the Constitutional
Convention with the Hartford Convention.
a. Consider the role reversals played by Virginia and New England as exemplified during
the Constitutional ratification period and the Hartford Convention. What
trends/patterns do you detect?
Chapter 7
1. 1790 Census
2. Election of 1789
3. The President’s Cabinet
4. The Bill of Rights
5. Tariff and Tonnage Acts
6. Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit
a. Debt Funding Scheme
7. The Compromise of 1790
8. National Bank Debate
a. Strict vs. Broad Constitutional
Interpretation
9. Report on Manufactures
10. First American Political Party System
a. Hamiltonian Federalists vs.
Jeffersonian Democrats
(Democratic Republicans)
11. Proclamation of Neutrality 1793
12. Citizen Genet Affair 1793
13. Jay’s Treaty 1794
14. Treaty of Greenville 1795
15. Whiskey Rebellion 1794
16. Pinckney’s Treaty 1795
17. Lands Act Policy Debate (1794, 1800 and
1804)
18. The Wilderness Road
19. Washington’s Farewell Address
20. Election of 1796
21. XYZ Affair 1797
22. Quasi War with France 1800-1801
23. Alien and Sedition Acts 1798
24. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 1798
25. Election of 1800
a. Peaceful Transfer of Power
b. Revolution of 1800
Chapter 8
1. The New Nation
2. Republican (Jeffersonian) Simplicity
3. Marbury v. Madison
a. Judicial Review
4. Wise and Frugal Government
5. Barbary Coast Pirates Episode
6. Louisiana Purchase
a. Corps of Discovery
7. The Burr Conspiracy
8. Impressment
9. Leopard-Chesapeake Affair
10. Embargo of 1807
a. Peaceable coercion
b. Non-Intercourse Act
c. Macon’s Bill Number 2
11. War of 1812
a. Battle of Tippecanoe
b. War Hawks
12. Treaty of Ghent
13. Hartford Convention
14. Republican and Federalist Role Reversal