TJ Test Review

Jefferson Era Test Review

HW for 2/25/10

Remember that your Jeffersonian Era Projects are due on Tuesday, Feb 23.

For Thursday, your homework is to write a one to one and a half page position paper in response to our debate topic, Thomas Jefferson was a successful president. This paper should be typed, 12 point font, Calibri font, and no modifications to margins. Your name is sufficient for title. Your paper should be double spaced.

A position paper is your opinion, which is supported well using specific examples and facts. You can base your opinion on your research and the debate.

You may email this to me, but it must be received by the beginning of your class period on Thursday.

Project Quizzes--more info

Please don't forget to give me the correct answers to your quiz questions when you submit them!!

Rubric Info

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HW for 2/3

Please read pages 181-193, and take reading notes. If you prefer, here are the questions,

1. Why was education "central to the Republican vision of America?"
2. What effect did Republican ideology have on education in the United States?
3. Explain the "cultural independence" that Jeffersonian Americans sought. What means of expression did this "independence" find?
4. What were the obstacles faced by Americans who aspired to create a more elevated national literary life? What efforts were made to overcome these obstacles?
5. What sort of works by American authors were most influential? Why?
6. How did the American Revolution affect traditional forms of religious practice? What challenges to religious traditionalism arose during this period?
7. What caused the Second Great Awakening?
8. Why were the Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians so successful on the frontier?
9. What was the "message" and the impact of the Second Great Awakening? What impact did it have on women? on African Americans? on Native Americans?
10. Explain the reasons for the initial American ambivalence toward British industrialism. What technological advances helped change this attitude?
11. What role did Eli Whitney play in America's Industrial Revolution? What impact did his inventions have on the South? on the North?
12. What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?
13. What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?

HW for 2/3/10

Please read pages 172-178, and take reading notes.
If you prefer having questions to help guide your notes, you may consider the following:

1. What were the reasons for the Whiskey Rebellion? Who was it aimed at particularly?
2. How did Washington's reaction to the Whiskey Rebellion underscore the difference between the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What were the circumstances that sent John Jay to England? What were the results of his mission?
6. How did Jay's Treaty affect American relations with Spain?
7. Why was John Adams selected as the Federalist candidate in 1796?
8. What circumstances led to an administration with a Federalist president and a Republican vice president?
9. What caused the "quasi-war" with France during the Adams administration? What was the result of this struggle?
10. How did the Federalists attempt to silence those who opposed the undeclared war, and what groups did these attempts most affect?
11. What gave rise to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? What attitude toward the nature of the federal government did these Resolutions reveal?
12. What were the key issues in the 1800 presidential election? Why is it called the "Revolution of 1800?"

Homework for Thursday

Read pages 188-193. Answer the following:

Identify these terms:
· Eli Whitney
· Robert Fulton
· Clermont
· "Turnpike Era"

1. Explain the reasons for the initial American ambivalence toward British industrialism. What technological advances helped change this attitude?
2. What role did Eli Whitney play in America's Industrial Revolution? What impact did his inventions have on the South? on the North?
3. What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?
4. What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?