Week+7+Reading

> **Text pp. 279-285, 288-289** > > Key SFI: Washington's Farewell Address, two-term precedent, factions/partisanship, Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, caucusing, partisan political press/print culture, election of 1796, President John Adams, VP Thomas Jefferson, Adams' military/naval buildup, French Directory, XYZ Affair, Talleyrand, New Army, Quasi-War, Naturalization Act, Alien Acts, Sedition Act, Matthew Lyon, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, strict vs loose construction, nullification, states' rights, Fries's Uprising, Aaron Burr, presidential election of 1800, Revolution of 1800 > > Guiding question: How did the the ideology of the Federalists differ from that of the Republicans on foreign policy, political participation, and interpretation of the Constitution during the 1790s? > > **Text pp. 268-278** > > Key SFI: 1st Congress, President George Washington, cabinet, Secretaries/Departments of War/Treasury/State/Justice, executive veto, 1789 Judiciary Act, Bill of Rights, Hamilton Tariff, Report on Public Credit, assumption, Bank of the United States, excise, Report on Manufactures, "monied interests", Federalists vs Republicans and "aristocrats" vs "democrats", Indian Intercourse Act, Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Whiskey Rebellion, French Revolution, "Citizen Capet" aka Louis XVI's guillotining, Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Toussaint Louverture, Neutrality Proclamation, freedom of the seas, Ambassador Edmond "Citizen" Genet, Jay Treaty (1794), Pinckney's Treaty > > Guiding question: How did the administration of President George Washington (1789-1797) establish a stable government for the United States following the adoption of the Constitution? > > **Text pp. 261-268** > > Key SFI: nationalists/federalists, national debt, tariff conflicts and interstate commerce, Annapolis Convention, Alexander Hamilton, Philadelphia/Constitutional Convention of 1787, Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, bicameral vs. unicameral, upper vs. lower house, proportional vs equal representation, "consolidated" government, Connecticut/Great Compromise, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, legislative executive and judicial branches, electoral college, reserved vs enumerated powers, elastic clause, three-fifths compromise, Founding Fathers/the Framers, ratification, antifederalists, the Federalist Papers (No. 10, 51, 78, 84 especially), "We the People" > > Guiding question: To what extent was the United States Constitution a radical departure from the Articles of Confederation? > > **Text pp. 248-261** > > Key SFI: republican virtue, Newburgh petition crisis, Washington's (1st) resignation, patriotic loyalty oaths, slaves and republican discourse, gradual emancipation, PA Abolition Society, African Episcopal Church, Phyllis Wheatley, manumission vs. reenslavement, 1780s recession, "Continentals" vs state currency, stay laws, rural indebtedness, //Trevett v. Weeden//, Shays' Rebellion, tax/debtors' revolts, Articles of Confederation, 1783 Treaty of Paris, Jay's 1784 treaty, state cessions, Northwest Territory, Southwest Territory, Land Ordinances of 1784/1785, George Rogers Clark, Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Northwest Ordinance > > Guiding question: To what extent was the national government under the Articles of Confederation (1777-1789) effective in solving the problems that confronted the new nation?
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