Early+Presidencies+-+Washington+&+Adams+Review

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**Students - Click on the link below to access and edit your wiki page review**. =Student Wiki Review - Early Presidencies of Washington & Adams= = =

= = =Key Terms & People=
 * Whiskey Rebellion
 * neutrality
 * isolationism
 * Federalists vs. Republicans
 * Washington’s Farewell Address [Source - History Alive pg. 148]
 * Alien & Sedition Acts
 * aliens
 * sedition
 * nullify
 * state’s rights
 * Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions

=**Main Ideas**=
 * 1) Why was the national gov’t able to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in 1793 when it couldn’t do the same thing with Shays’ Rebellion in 1787? What had changed about the national gov't?
 * 2) How did Washington attempt to solve America’s dilemma with Great Britain and France during the War of 1793? Why did he choose this method?
 * 3) Identify the major points of George Washington's farewell address.
 * 4) Identify the major philosophical differences between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson with regards to their viewpoints on human nature, ideal economy, best form of gov't, etc.
 * 5) Understand how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., view of foreign policy, economic policy, National Bank, etc.)
 * 6) What was the purpose of the **Alien and Sedition Acts** and why did controversies develop?
 * 7) Analyze the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and explain how Jefferson and Madison attempted to use the **state’s rights** theory of the Constitution to protest the Alien & Sedition Acts.

=**Primary Source Analysis (PSA)**= Complete each of the following (A,B,C,D) for the primary source(s) listed below.  Quote specific lines from the passage above to support your thinking. These questions will be worth 10pts. each on your test. A) Who may have written this document? B) For what purpose was this document written? C) What important point is the writer trying to say? D) What does the excerpt tell us about the time in which it was written?

__PSA #1__

 * 1) **//"And whereas, by a law of the United States entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress [put down] insurrections [rebellions}, and repel invasions," it is enacted that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed in any state by combinations too powerful to be suppressed….[and] command such insurgents [rebels] to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes [homes] within a limited time."//**

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