:Questions
1. Why did Alexander Hamilton push for the federal assumption of state debts?
2. What arguments did Hamilton make to support the creation of a national
banking system?
3. Identify the two types of taxes that Hamilton proposed.
4. What arguments did Hamilton make for the federal government assuming state
debts "at par?" What was the position taken by his opposition on this issue?
5. How was the assumption issued resolved?
6. Why did small farmers oppose Hamilton's broad economic program?
7. What were the reasons for the Whiskey Rebellion? Who was it aimed at
particularly?
8. How did Washington's reaction to the Whiskey Rebellion underscore the
difference between the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation?
9. How did the government under the Constitution guarantee that people on the
frontier would be loyal to it? What was the impact on Native Americans?
10. How and where in the Constitution are Native Indians mentioned? What
constitutional issues emerged regarding Native Americans?
11. What diplomatic problems did the French Revolution and the war that followed
pose for the United States? How did Washington and Congress deal with this
problem?
12. Identify some of the challenges to American neutrality.
13. What were the circumstances that sent John Jay to England? What were the
results of his mission?
14. How did Jay's Treaty affect American relations with Spain?
TERMS: CLICK ON TERMS TO REACH AN INTERNET CONNECTION
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Publius
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Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights
The Federalist Papers
Anti-Federalist Papers
Judiciary Act of 1789
Alexander Hamilton
assumption [or the
Compromise of 1790]
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Report on Public
Credit (1790)
Report on
Manufactures (1790)
First Bank of the U. S.
Democratic-Republicans
Whiskey Rebellion
Edmond Genêt
Jay's Treaty (1795)
Pinckney's Treaty (1795)
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