Homework Reading Assignments – Ch. 5-12
We’ll have frequent homework reading discussions, which will be part of your participation
grade. Please be ready to explain terms, people, and places, and answer questions, at the
beginning of the class period by the due date. You may write the answer in your notebook and
read from them. Your participation grade is based on accuracy and clarity.
Terms (Things, People, and Places): Please explain what, who, and/or where it is, and then
explain the importance.
Questions: Please answer in complete sentences with details.
Chapter 5
Section 1
1. Why did the townspeople of Concord object to having the state legislature draw up a
new constitution for Massachusetts?
2. Why did Americans want written constitutions?
3. Why did the new state constitutions reduce the power of the governor’s office?
4. How did some states try to promote equality?
Section 2
1. Name three successes and one failure of the Continental Congress.
Section 3
1. What important power did Congress lack under the Articles of Confederation?
2. What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 help accomplish?
3. Name the biggest military accomplishment under the Articles of Confederation.
4. Name the biggest domestic accomplishment under the Articles of Confederation.
5. What caused the farmers of Shay’s rebellion to take up arms?
Section 4
Terms: Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, The Great Compromise (i.e. Connecticut
Compromise), Three-Fifths Compromise
1. What powers did the new Constitution have that were lacking in the Articles of
Confederation?
2. What was the difference between a federal union and a national union in the 1700s?
Section 5
1. Why was it significant that voters rather than state legislatures ratified the
Constitution?
2. Why did some people oppose passage of the Constitution?
3. What did Massachusetts do that assisted in getting other states to ratify the
Constitution?
4. What factors helped to win ratification in Virginia and New York?
Chapter 6
Section 1
1. Explain how the President was chosen in 1789.
2. What problems did the government confront in the 1790s in trying to deal with
transportation and communication difficulties?
3. How were American “aristocrats” different from European aristocrats?
Section 2
Terms: Debt Assumption, strict construction, broad construction
1. What did Hamilton hope to achieve with each of his plans?
2. Why did some people disagree with Hamilton’s plans?
3. How did Washington, D.C. become our capital?
4. On what issues did Federalists and Republicans differ?
Section 3
Terms: Edmond Genet, Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney’s Treaty, Treaty of Greenville
1. Why were some Americans upset by the French Revolution?
2. What were two of George Washington’s warnings in his Farewell Address?
3. What caused the Whiskey Rebellion?
Section 4
Term: 12th Amendment
1. How did Jefferson become Adam’s Vice President?
2. Why did the XYZ Affair anger Americans?
3. Why were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed?
Unit 3 Assignments:
Chapter 1
Section 1:
Terms: Benjamin Banneker, “revolution of 1800,” Barbary States
Questions:
1. Why did Thomas Jefferson and the “Virginia Dynasty” have faith in representative
government?
2. Name two accomplishments of Jefferson’s first term.
Section 2:
Terms: James Monroe, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Sacajawea, Aaron Burr, Timothy
Pickering
Questions:
1. How did events in Haiti upset Napoleon’s dreams for Louisiana?
2. What were two major problems that Jefferson faced in asking Congress to approve
the Louisiana Purchase?
3. What were the results of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
4. Why did some Federalists oppose the Louisiana Purchase?
5. What did Arron Burr’s trial accomplish?
Section3:
Terms: Judiciary Act of 1789
Questions:
1. How did the Federalists seek to retain influence in the government after their defeat in
1800?
2. What is so important about Marbury v. Madison?
3. What was Samuel Chase’s impeachment trial important to the future of the Supreme
Court?
Section 4:
Terms: Orders in Council, imperial decrees, Chesapeake affair
1. What British actions at sea angered a great number of Americans?
2. Why the Embargo Act effective or ineffective? (Pick one)
3. How did the Embargo Act effect the election of 1808?
Chapter 8
Section1:
Terms: Macon’s Bill No. 2, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Tecumseh
Questions
1. Why did the War Hawks argue for war?
2. How would you summarize the main terms of the Treaty of Ghent?
3. Who was opposed to the War of 1812, and why?
Section 2:
Terms: American System, Bonus Bill, Era of Good Feelings
Questions:
1. What did the North, South, and West each like or dislike about (a) a protective tariff,
(b) internal improvements, (c) the national bank?
2. Why did Madison veto the bonus bill?
3. Why were the cases decided by the Supreme Court under John Marshall important to
the growing power of the national government?
Section 3:
1. How was the Missouri Compromise supposed to settle the issue of slavery?
2. How did Eli Whitney influence (a) the growth of slavery and (b) its westward
expansion?
Section 4:
1. What did the Monroe Doctrine proclaim?
2. How is the Monroe Doctrine an outcome of revolutions in Latin America?
Section 5:
1. How did the works of Stuart, Peale, Trumbull, and Webster reflect and promote
nationalism?
Chapter 9
Section1:
Terms: party caucus, National Republican, Democratic Republicans
Questions:
1. What was the “Corrupt Bargain” in the Election of 1824?
2. Why did Democratic Republicans want to see their own “Tariff of Abominations”
defeated?
Section 2:
1. How did changes in voter qualifications help Andrew Jackson become President of
the United States?
2. What is the “spoils system” in politics?
Section 3:
Terms: Denmark Vesey, Webster-Hayne Debate, nullification, Worcester v. Georgia, Nat
Turner
Questions:
1. What evidence demonstrates that President Jackson’s protected or did not protect
Native Americans?
2. What was President Jackson’s opinion of nullification?
Section 4:
Questions:
1. How did Roger Taney and his “pet banks” hurt the economy?
Chapter 10
Section1:
1. Explain why the Erie Canal was a success or a failure.
2. Explain one advantage and one disadvantage of steamboat travel.
Section 2:
1. How did the Industrial Revolution and the Transportation Revolution help each
other?
2. What contributions did Lowell and his associates make to the development of the
factory system?
3. What role did Eli Whitney play in the development of mass production?
Section 3:
1. Explain two reasons that led Europeans to enter the United States between 1820 and
1860.
Section 4:
1. What were the advantages to building a “balloon-frame house” instead of a traditional
one?
Section 5:
1. What was the “middle passage”?
2. How did some slaves resist the will of their owners?
3. What were the negative effects of slavery on the South?
4. Why did Southerners turn from calling slavery a “necessary evil” to calling it a
“positive good”?
Chapter 11
Section1:
Terms: Henry David Thoreau, Sojourner Truth,
1. What changes did Dorothea Dix seek in the treatment of the mentally handicapped?
2. What gains were made in women’s rights between 1828 and 1860?
3. What developments in religion were linked to the movements in social reform?
Section 2:
Terms: William Lloyd Garrison, American Colonization Society, The Liberator
1. Why did the South tried to isolate itself from the rest of the nation by the 1830s?
Section 3:
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Section 5:
Chapter 12
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