Chapter 7-9 Study Guide
1. What is a precedent?
2. List the issues that Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson disagreed on.
3. What is the national debt?
4. What were the aspects of Alexander Hamilton’s economic plan?
5. What is the difference between a loose construction and a strict construction of
the Constitution? How did Thomas Jefferson view it? Alexander Hamilton?
6. Why did Jefferson oppose the creation of a national bank?
7. What is the purpose of a protective tariff?
8. What did Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation say?
9. Why did Jefferson criticize U.S. policy toward France during Washington’s
presidency?
10. What was the Treaty of Greenville?
11. What was Pinckney’s Treaty?
12. What was the greatest threat to American expansion in the Northwest territory?
13. Explain the details of the Whiskey Rebellion?
14. What did Washington warn against in his farewell address?
15. What was different about the election of 1796 from previous elections?
16. What were the first two political parties in American history?
17. Who became John Adams vice president?
18. What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
19. What happened during the XYZ Affair?
20. What did the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions say? Who wrote them?
21. What is the electoral college?
22. What did Thomas Jefferson think were the primary roles of the federal
government?
23. How did Thomas Jefferson characterize the transition of power from one party to
the other in the election of 1800?
24. What was the significance of Marbury v. Madison?
25. What did the Louisiana Purchase do for the U.S.?
26. Not a question. Study a map of the United States as late as 1820 to know what the
territory of the U.S. looked like.
27. What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition? What challenges would
they face?
28. What problems did the United States face when Great Britain and France went to
war in 1803?
29. What was the Embargo Act? How did it affect Americans?
30. What were War Hawks?
31. Who was president during the War of 1812?
32. What was the significance of the Battle of the Thames?
33. What document ended the War of 1812?
34. What was the last major conflict of the war?
35. What did the Treaty of Fort Jackson do?
36. What city did Britain burn to the ground after they had troop reinforcements in
1814?
37. Who defended New Orleans from the British?
38. What is judicial review?
39. What was the Adams-Onis treaty?
40. What effect would the Monroe Doctrine over U.S. foreign policy in the 1800s?
41. Why was the Monroe Doctrine issued?
42. What was the significance of the Missouri Compromise?
43. What was the corrupt bargain? Who became president as a result?
44. What is sectionalism?
45. What was the American System?
46. What was the significance of McCullough v. Maryland? Gibbons v. Ogden?