1. Explain Neutrality.
Staying neutral and out of foreign affairs.
2. Explain precedent and give examples from Washington’s
Presidency.
Staying neutral and A tradition, Washington examples: 2
terms, “Mr. President:, Farewell Address, Creating a Cabinet
of foreign affairs.
3. Explain Cabinet.
A group of advisors to the president, Example Secretary of
State, Secretary of Treasury
4. What was the biggest problem facing Washington during his
presidency?
Money – Debt after the Revolutionary War
5. Why did Hamilton want to create a National Bank?
To organize federal funds, and to ensure the stability of the
Nation’s Economy
6. Why did political parties develop?
Differences in beliefs on how the nation should develop
7. Fill in the chart:
Federalists
Leader:
Democratic Republicans
Leader:
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Belief about the economy:
Belief about the economy:
Wealthy should rule
National Bank
Protective Tariffs
Anyone should rule
No national bank
Free trade, no tariffs
8. What was the greatest effect of the Whiskey Rebellion?
Stopping the Whiskey Rebellion established the authority of
the National Government
9. Explain what Washington said in his farewell address.
Warned against permanent alliances (stay neutral) and warned
against political parties
10. Explain the laws below:
Alien Act
gave the president
power to imprison or
deport aliens
suspected of activities
posing a threat to the
national government.
Sedition Act
Naturalization Act
allowed for the
made it more difficult
punishment of those for foreigners to
who criticized the
become U.S. citizens.
government either
verbally or in writing.
11. What was the outcome of Marbury vs. Madison?
Judicial Review
12. What is Judicial Review?
The rights of the Supreme Court to determine if a law is
Constitutional or not
13. Define Nullify:
To cancel a law
14. Define Tariff:
Tax on imported goods, or goods from another country
15. What was important about the Louisiana Purchase?
Doubled the size of the U.S.
16. Color in the Louisiana Purchase on the blank map below and
label it.
17. Why did the War Hawks want to go to war with Great
Britain?
Wanted to fight for land in British Canada to gain more land
in the North
18. Explain Impressment:
British navy kidnapping American sailors and forcing them into
their navy
19. How did the War of 1812 effect America’s economy?
Increased manufacturing
20. Explain the Monroe Doctrine:
Monroe speech that wanted European nations not to colonize
in the Western hemisphere, and in exchange America would
not go to their hemisphere
20. How is the Monroe Doctrine and Washington’s Farewell
Address similar?
Both were speeches that tried to enforce neutrality
21. Explain the “Era of God Feelings”:
Time period where nationalism was high after the War of
1812, and little problems occurred