Chapter 9 & 10 Terms and Questions

Chapter 9 The Confederation and The Constitution1776-1790

Terms to Know:

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Civic Virtue

Republican motherhood

Articles of Confederation

Old Northwest

Land Ordinance of 1785

Northwest Ordinance

Shay’s Rebellion

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Great Compromise

Common law

Civil law

Three-fifths compromise

Antifederalists

Federalists

 

People to Know:

Lord Sheffield

Daniel Shays

Patrick Henry

Alexander Hamilton

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

 

Chapter 10 Launching the New Ship of State1789-1800

Terms to Know

Bill of Rights

Judiciary Act of 1789

Funding at par

Assumption

tariff

Excise tax

Bank of the United States

Whiskey Rebellion

Reign of Terror

Neutrality Proclamation

Battle of Fallen Timbers

Treaty of Greenville

Jay’s Treaty

Pinckney’s Treaty

Farewell Address, Washington

XYZ Affair

Convention of 1800

Alien Laws

Sedition Act

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

 

People to Know

Alexander Hamilton

George Washington

Louis XVI

Edmond Genêt

“Mad Anthony” Wayne

John Jay

John Adams

 

Chapter 9

  1. How did the revolutionary American ideas of natural human rights, equality, and freedom from governmental tyranny affect developments in the immediate post –Revolutionary period?
  2. Which problems of the post-Revolutionary period and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation lead to the adoption of a new Constitution?

Chapter 10

  1. What were the most important issues facing the new federal government, and how did the Washington administration address them?
  2. What were the philosophical disagreements between Hamilton and Jefferson that led to the creation of the first American political parties?

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