APUSH
Unit 3 Comps
2015
“The Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, Early Republic through War of 1812”
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1. *LIST and describe the achievements and failures of the government under the Articles of
Confederation.
2. What crucial role did Shays’ Rebellion play in sparking the movement for a new Constitution?
3. Describe the issues at stake in the political fight over ratification of the Constitution between federalists
and antifederalists. Explain exactly why the federalists won.
4. Explain how the new government represented a CONSERVATIVE reaction to the American Revolution
but at the same time institutionalized the Revolution’s central and RADICAL principles of selfgovernment and individual liberty.
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5. Describe Alexander Hamilton’s “Financial Program” that was to put the federal government on a sound
financial footing.
6. Explain how the conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson led to the emergence of the first political
parties. Contrast the principles and membership base of the Hamiltonian Federalists and the
Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans.
7. Describe the causes of the undeclared war with France and explain Adams’ decision to see peace rather
than declare war.
8. Describe the “poisonous political atmosphere” that produced the Alien and Sedition Acts and the
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
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9. Explain how Jefferson’s idealistic Revolution of 1800 proved to be more moderate and practical once he
began exercising presidential power.
10. How did John Marshall turn the judiciary into a bastion (stronghold) of conservative, federalist power?
11. What was Jefferson’s original goal with the embargo and why did it fail?
12. Explain why President Madison became convinced that a new war with Britain was necessary to
maintain America’s experiment in republican government.
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13. Analyze why the War of 1812 was A. politically divisive and B. poorly fought. In your analysis,
include the death of the Federalist Party.
14. Identify the terms of the Treaty of Ghent and discuss the outburst of American nationalism that followed
the War of 1812.
15. Describe the economic depression that followed the Panic of 1819.
16. How did the Missouri Compromise temporarily resolve the furious debate over slavery in 1819?
Unit QUIZ Vocab:***you must
differentiate between the terms if two are
given. Do NOT write both
1. John Dickenson
2. Robert Morris
3. Edmund Randolph
4. Annapolis Convention
5. Federalist Papers
6. Judiciary Act, 1789
7. excise tax
8. loose OR strict constructivism
9. “capitol location”
10. Whiskey Rebellion
11. Washington’s Farewell Address
12. Alien and Sedition Acts
13. VA and KY Resolutions
14. Second Great Awakening
15. Hamilton’s Program
16. Society of Cincinnati
17. Residence Act
18. French Revolution
19. XYZ Affair
20. Jay’s Treaty
21. Pinckney’s Treaty
22. Treaty of Greenville, 1795
23. Barbary Pirates
24. War Hawks
25. Virginia Dynasty
26. agrarian republic
27. Thomas Malthus
28. Marbury v. Madison
29. John Marshall
30. Embargo Act, 1807
31. William H. Harrison
32. Hartford Convention
33. Treaty of Ghent
34. National Road
35. Clay’s American System
36. Adams-Onis Treaty
37. Monroe Doctrine
38. Revolution of 1800
39. Toussaint L-Ouverture
40. Continental System
Reading Assignments:
F 9/18 CH: 9 p. 174-186; rv. 1-37
M 9/21 p. 186-190; rv. 38-56
T 9/22 p.190-195; rv. 57-66/Comps/MC
W 9/23 CH:10 p. 199-204; rv. 1-21
X 9/24 p. 204-210; rv. 22-29
F 9/25 p. 210-221; rv. 30-50/Comps/MC
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9/28 CH:11 p. 224-228; rv.1-6*
9/29 p. 229-234; rv. 7-21
9/30 p. 234-240; rv. 22-39
10/1 p. 240-246; rv. 40-58
10/2 CH: 11 Comps/MC
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10/5 CH:12 p. 248-254; rv.1-18
10/6 p. 254-259; rv. 19-30
10/7 p. 259-265; rv. 31-41
10/8 p. 265-270; rv. 42-49/Comps/MC
10/9 REVIEW CHS 9-12
Mark Formal Assessments:
T 9/29 CH:9/10 QUIZ; v 1-20
F 10/9 CH:11/12 QUIZ; v.21-40
M 10/12 Unit 3 TEST
CH: 9
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
conservative ballast
egalitarian
property requirements
Society of the Cincinnati
disestablished
Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom
7. idealism vs. political expediency
8. equality for women
9. “matrimonial republican”
10. civic virtue
11. “republican motherhood”
12. Massachusetts constitution
13. weakness of executive and judicial
branches
14. inclusion of bills of rights
15. John Singleton Copley
16. economic democracy
17. ginseng as cure for impotence*
18. newly rich class of profiteers
19. AOC “in French”
20. “apple of discord”…define what that
means, THEN explain how it relates
to the chapter
21. “sweeten the pill”
22. Articles of Confederation
23. executive/judicial branches?
24. weak Congress?
25. anemic
26. Land Ordinance of 1875
27. Northwest Ordinance, 1787
28. commerce with Britain
29. “curry favor” with the Indians
30. “easy states”
31. commerce with Spain
32. commerce with France
33. “too weak to fight and too poor to
bribe”
34. “rag money”
35. Shay’s Rebellion
36. mobocracy
37. “a hoop to the barrel”
38. Alexander Hamilton’s view of
communities
39. secrecy of meetings in Philadelphia
40. demigods
41. Franklin’s mouth
42. the “father of the Constitution”
43. ABSENT fathers: Jefferson, The
Adamses, Paine, Hancock…..Henry
44. “fear occupied the 56th chair”
(explain)
45. to scrap or to revise
46. VA Plan (describe)
47. NJ Plan (describe)
48. Great/CT Compromise (describe)
49. “Anglo-American common law”
50. civil law
51. declaration of war
52. Electoral College
53. Three-Fifths Compromise
54. “triple headed monster”
55. indirect vs direct election
56. “we the people”
57. federalists
58. antifederalists
59. “motley crew”….no, not the band
60. paper moneyites
61. advantages of federalists over
antifederalists
62. charges against the US Constitution
by antifederalists
63. Note order of states to ratify** table
9.3
64. The Federalist
65. Federalist Number 10
66. a redefinition of popular sovereignty
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1. population explosion
2. George Washington as president
3. cabinet
4. State
5. Treasury
6. War
7. Bill of Rights
8. Judiciary Act of 1789
9. John Jay
10. Hamilton’s financial plan
11. funding at par
12. “to buy something for a song”
13. assumption
14. federal district on the Potomac
15. debt as a “National blessing”
EXPLAIN!
16. tariffs
17. excise tax
18. need for a national bank
19. strict construction
20. loose construction
21. Bank of the United States
22. Whiskey Rebellion
23. significance of it….
24. Jefferson and Madison’s opposition
to Hamilton’s program*** pay
attention to Madison!!
25. evolution of major parties table 10.2
26. effect of the French Revolution on
America
27. “The Marseillaise”
28. Reign of Terror
29. “blood drinking cannibals”
30. “waiting for babies”
31. Neutrality Proclamation
32. “Citizen Genet”
33. Battle of Fallen Timbers
34. Treaty of Greenville
35. Paine’s letter to Washington
36. Jay’s Treaty
37. Pinckney’s Treaty 1795
38. Washington’s Farewell Address
39. Election of John Adams
40. XYZ Affair
41. “Annulment for the marriage of
inconvenience”
42. pro-Jefferson aliens
44. . Alien laws
44. Sedition Act
45. compact theory
46. concept of nullification
47. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
48. “those who own the country ought
to govern it”
49. COPY table 10.3 LEARN IT!
50. “wreckage of nascent nations”
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1. agrarian purity
2. see sidebar of Rev. Dwight and
note the meaning of:
a. Bible to the bonfire
b. Jacobin “frenzy”
c. wives and daughters
dishonored
d. disciples of Voltaire
e. dragoons of Marat
3. “all-dressed-up-and-no-place-togo”
4. Revolution of 1800
5. Burr ,”we have beat you by
superior Management”
6. Jefferson-Hemmings
controversy
7. “the Red Fox”
8. “Jefferson as president
9. “We are all Republicans, we are
all Federalists”
10. “honest friendship with all
nations, entangling alliances with
none”
11. patronage (define it)
12. polygraph at Monticello
13. repeal of the excise tax
14. “watchdog of the Treasury”
15. Judiciary Act of 1801
16. “midnight judges”
17. John Marshall
18. Marshall is a major federalist
because…..
19. Marbury vs. Madison
20. Barbary Pirates of North Africa
21. Tripolitan War
22. why Napoleon wanted to sell
land in America
23. Toussaint L’Ouverture
24. Robert Livingston
25. “bought a wilderness to get a
city”
26. “I thought it my duty to risk
myself for you”…explain
27. Louisiana Purchase (describe
boundaries)
28. Corps of Discovery
29. Gifts from the Great White
Chief
30. Aaron Burr Conspiracy
31. Hamilton –Burr duel
32. “blew the brightest brain out of
the Federalist party”
33. Marshall on treason
34. “juicy commercial pickings”
35. Battle of Trafalgar* look it up
36. Battle of Austerlitz*
37. Orders in Council
38. impressment
39. Chesapeake affair
40. Embargo Act 1807
41. prairie dog sickened at the sting
of the hornet…satire cartoon
42. EMBARGO (O Grab Me, Go
Bar Em, Mobrage,,,dambargo)
43. “Virginia lordlings”
44. non-intercourse act
45. “splendid misery”
46. James Madison
47. Macon’s Bill No. 2
48. War Hawks
49. Henry Clay
50. Tecumseh
51. Tenskwatawa
52. William Henry Harrison
53. Battle of Tippecanoe
54. Congress declares war
55. sectional and partisan
support/opposition
56. “anti-Christ of the age”
57. “old England and New England”
58. Mr. Madison’s War
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1. War of 1812
2. Oliver Hazard Perry
3. We have met the enemy and they are
ours”
4. Isle of Elba
5. Ft. McHenry
6. Francis Scott Key
7. burning of DC
8. Battle of New Orleans
9. Andrew Jackson
10. review “Battle of New Orleans” by
Johnny Horton sing it with a partner on
the kazoo for the class for extra credit on
the CH:11/12 quiz
11. Tsar Alexander I of Russia
12. John Quincy Adams
13. Conservative Congress of Vienna
14. Treaty of Ghent
15. Hartford Convention
16 ….letter from Abigail Adams: “A
house divided upon itself—and upon that
foundation do our enemies build their
hopes of subduing us”
17. “Virginia Dynasty”
18. “death dirge” (Look up the word
dirge in a dictionary)
19. War of 1812 as a second war for
independence
20. Rush-Bagot Agreement
21. Europe’s “slump of exhaustion”
22. spirit of nationalism* the way AM
PAG uses it
23. “…our country, right or wrong”
24. causes Tariff of 1816
25. Clay’s American System
26. Republican “constitutional
scruples”…look up “scruples”
27. James Monroe
28. Era of Good Feelings
29. Panic of 1819
30. Land Act of 1820
31 Tallmadge Amendment
32. “peculiar institution”
33. Missouri Compromise 1820
34. . Monroe’s re-election
35. McCulloch v. MD, 1819
36. Cohens v. VA, 1821
37. Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
38. Fletcher v. Peck, 1810
39. Dartmouth College v. Woodward,
1819
40. “Godlike” Daniel Webster
41. “buttress”
42. . Anglo-American Convention
43. . “epidemic of revolutions”
44. Andrew Jackson…on the warpath
45 Florida Purchase Treaty(Adams-Onis
Treaty)
46. Europe: “The world must be safe
FROM democracy”..EXPLAIN
47. Fort Ross (Fort “RUS”)
48. Monroe Doctrine
49. Russo-American Treaty 1824
1.
John Dickenson: This man wrote Letters from a
Farmer in Pennsylvania.
2.
Robert Morris: This was the man who basically
financed the American Revolution.
3.
Edmund Randolph: This person served both as a
Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress and as
Governor of Virginia from 1786-1788. He submitted
the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention.
4.
Annapolis Convention: This was a precursor to the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 when a dozen
commissioners form New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia met to discuss
reform of interstate commerce regulations, to design
a U.S. currency standard, and to find a way to repay
the federal government’s debts to Revolutionary War
veterans.
5.
Federalist Papers: This collection of essays by John
Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison,
explained the importance of a strong central
government. It was published to convince New York
to ratify the Constitution.
6.
Judiciary Act 1789: This created the federal court
system, allowed the president to create federal courts
and to appoint judges.
7.
Excise Taxes: This is the kind of tax placed on
manufactured products.
8.
Loose OR Strict Construction: Strict construction
is a style of interpretation that limits government
powers to those specifically mentioned in the U.S.
Constitution. Loose construction is a style of
interpretation would allow the government to do
anything which the Constitution does not specifically
forbid it from doing.
9.
Location of the Capitol: This issue was part of the
Compromise Plan adopted at the Constitutional
Convention as a “nod” to the South. NOT the Great
Compromise between the VA and NJ Plans.
10. Whiskey Rebellion: This incident showed that the
new government under the Constitution could react
swiftly and effectively to an uprising, in contrast to
the inability of the government under the Articles of
Confederation to deal with a similar situation in
Massachusetts.
11. Washington’s Farewell Address: In this famous
writing, (it was not a real speech) our first president
warned against the dangers of political parties and
foreign alliances.
12. Alien and Sedition Acts: This collection of laws
made it harder for new immigrants to become
citizens, empowered the president to arrest dangerous
people, and made it illegal to criticize government
officials in writing.
13. VA and KY Resolutions: Written anonymously by
Jefferson and Madison, they declared that states
could nullify federal laws that the states considered
unconstitutional.
14. Second Great Awakening: This was another great
religious revival in American history that encouraged
personal salvation experienced in revival meetings
and more evangelicalism. This movement eventually
would lead to many reform movements like prison
reform, temperance, women's suffrage, and the
crusade to abolish slavery.
15. Hamilton’s Program: This plan included the
creation of the National Bank, the establishment of
the U.S.’s credit rate, increased tariffs, a special tax
on whiskey and federal assumption of debts incurred
by the states during the War for Independence.
16. Society of Cincinnati: This was a secret society
formed by officers of the Continental Army and was
named for George Washington although Washington
himself had no involvement in the society.
17. Residence Act: This piece of legislation set the
length of time which immigrants must live in the
United States in order to become legal citizens.
18. French Revolution: This the second great
democratic revolution started on July 14, 1789.
19. XYZ Affair: This refers to the international scandal
that erupted when French diplomats requested a
“payment” prior to negotiating with American
diplomats.
20. Jay’s Treaty: This was signed in the hopes of
settling the growing conflicts between the U.S. and
Britain. It dealt with the Northwest posts and trade on
the Mississippi River and was unpopular with most
Americans because it did not punish Britain for the
attacks on neutral American ships. It was particularly
unpopular with France, because the U.S. also
accepted the British restrictions on the rights of
neutrals.
21. Pinckney’s Treaty: This agreement between the
U.S. and Spain gave the U.S. the right to transport
goods on the Mississippi river and to store goods in
the Spanish port of New Orleans
22. Treaty of Greenville, 1795: Drawn up after the
Battle of Fallen Timbers, twelve Indian tribes gave
the Americans the Ohio Valley territory in exchange
for a reservation and $10,000.
23. Barbary Pirates: This was the name given to several
renegade countries on the Mediterranean coast of
North Africa who demanded tribute in exchange for
refraining from attacking ships in the Mediterranean.
33. Treaty of Ghent: This officially ended the War of
1812 and restored the “ante bellum status quo.” It
also set up a commission to determine the disputed
Canada/U.S. border.
24. War Hawks: This was a group of Western settlers
(led in Congress by Henry Clay and John Calhoun)
who advocated war with Britain because they hoped
to acquire Britain’s northwest posts (and also Florida
or even Canada) and because they felt the British
were aiding the Indians and encouraging them to
attack the Americans on the frontier.
34. National Road: This was the first highway built by
the federal government. Constructed during 18251850, it stretched from Pennsylvania to Illinois and
was a major overland shipping route between the
North and the West.
25. Virginia Dynasty: This term refers to the presidents
that one state contributed to the American history.
26. Agrarian Republic: This was Jefferson’s vision of
having a nation of small family farms clustered
together in rural communities. These happy farmers
would exhibit concern for the community good.
27. Thomas Malthus: This was an English economist
who warned that unchecked population growth would
outstrip the food supply leading to widespread
poverty and misery.
28. Marbury vs. Madison: This case established the
Supreme Court’s power of judicial review, which
allows the Supreme Court to declare laws
unconstitutional.
29. John Marshall: This was a Federalist whose
decisions on the U.S. Supreme Court promoted
federal power over state power and established the
judiciary as a branch of government equal to the
legislative and executive. He served as Chief Justice
for 34 years.
30. Embargo Act 1807: This act issued by Jefferson
forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S.
It was meant to force Britain and France to change
their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving
them of American trade. It was difficult to enforce
because it was opposed by merchants and everyone
else whose livelihood depended upon international
trade it also hurt the national economy.
31. William H. Harrison: This governor of the Indiana
Territory is famous for making unfair treaties with
Indian tribes and the Battle of Tippecanoe.
32. Hartford Convention: This was a gathering of New
England merchants (Federalists) who opposed the
Embargo and the War of 1812, proposed some
amendments to the Constitution, advocated the theory
of nullification, and discussed the idea of seceding
from the United States. Seen as traitors, public
sentiment turned against the Federalists and led to the
demise of the party.
35. Clay’s American System: This was proposal
included using federal money for internal
improvements (roads, bridges, industrial
improvements, etc.), enacting a protective tariff to
foster the growth of American industries, and
strengthening the national bank.
36. Adams-Onis Treaty: With this agreement, Spain
sold Florida to the United States and the United
States gave up its claims to Texas.
37. Monroe Doctrine: This was the declaration that
Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the
Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at
interference by a European power would be seen as a
threat to the U.S.
38. Revolution of 1800: This refers to the election that
peacefully changed the direction of the government
from Federalist to Democratic- Republican, even
though it initially resulted in a tie and another
amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
39. Toussaint L’Ouverture: This person led a slave
rebellion which took control of Haiti, the most
important island of France’s Caribbean possessions.
The rebellion led Napoleon to feel that New World
colonies were more trouble than they were worth, and
encouraged him to sell Louisiana to the U.S.
40. Continental System: Napoleon basically caused the
War of 1812 with this arrangement which closed
European ports to ships which had docked in Britain
and authorized French ships to seize neutral shipping
vessels trying to trade at British ports.