Unit #2:  Chapter Terms

1. Chapter 9
2. Chapter 10

Chapter 9

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776–1790

	I.	Identify and state the historical significance of 
the following:

 
	1.	Abigail Adams
	2.	Daniel Shays
	3.	Alexander Hamilton
	4.	James Madison
 

	II.	Define and state the historical significance of 
the following:

 
	5.	primogeniture
	6.	federation
	7.	checks and balances
	8.	sovereignty
	9.	“mobocracy”
	10.	consent of the governed
	11.	republicanism
	12.	states’ rights
	13.	popular sovereignty
	14.	confederation
	15.	anarchy
 

	III.	Describe and state the historical significance of 
the following:

 
	16.	Society of the Cincinnati
	17.	“Great Compromise”
	18.	Articles of Confederation
	19.	Electoral College
	20.	Land Ordinance of 1785
	21.	“three-fifths compromise”
	22.	Northwest Ordinance
	23.	antifederalists
	24.	Shays’s Rebellion
	25.	Federalists
	26.	“large-state plan”
	27.	“small-state plan”
	28.	The Federalist
	29.	Federalist  no. 1 

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Chapter 10

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789–1800

    I.   Identify and state the historical significance of the 
following:

 



           1.     John Adams

           2.     Thomas Jefferson

           3.     Alexander Hamilton

           4.     Henry Knox

           5.     John Jay

           6.     Citizen Genêt

           7.     Anthony Wayne

           8.     Talleyrand

           9.     Napoleon Bonaparte

           10.    Matthew Lyon



 

  II.   Define and state the historical significance of the 
following:

 



         11.     funding at par

         12.     strict construction

          13.    assumption

         14.     implied powers

          15.    tariffs

         16.     excise tax

         17.     compact theory

         18.     nullification

              



III.   Describe and state the historical significance of the 
following:

 



         19.     cabinet

         20.     Bank of the United States

         21.     Bill of Rights

         22.     French Revolution

         23.     Jay’s Treaty

         24.     Convention of 1800

         25.     Neutrality Proclamation

         26.     Whiskey Rebellion

         27.     Ninth Amendment

         28.     Federalists

         29.     Tenth Amendment

         30.     Pinckney Treaty

         31.     Alien and Sedition Acts

         32.     Battle of Fallen Timbers

         33.     Farewell Address

         34.     Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

         35.     Jeffersonian Republicans

         36.     Judiciary Act of 1789

         37.     Treaty of Greenville

         38.     XYZ affair



 

 

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