ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY

Homework Assignment
Chapter Seven

DIRECTIONS:   Read Chapter Seven of your Text, and answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Your responses must be either typewritten or hand-written in black or blue ink.  ALL Questions must be answered fully and completely or no credit will be awarded for any answers.

1.       What did the nationalists, who later called themselves Federalists, hope to achieve by revising the Articles of Confederation and establishing a new central government based on the Constitution of 1787?

2.       Why might the Antifederalists have lost the ratification debates of 1787 and 1788?

3.       In The Federalist, No. 10, what did James Madison argue was the value of a large republic?

4.       Why did Washington and Adams as well as the Republicans consider it imperative to remain neutral and avoid war with either France or Britain in the 1790s? Given this party consensus, how do you

 account for the acrimony of the political debates of the 1790s?

5.       Was the "Revolution of 1800" really a revolution? In what ways was it not a revolution?

6.       How did Thomas Jefferson's vision of the future differ from Alexander Hamilton's?

7.    Refer to American Voices, Abigail and John Adams: The Status of Women in Chapter 7 of the text. After reading the document, write a brief paragraph-length response to each of the following questions. When you are finished, select "Submit" to compare your responses with the model answers provided.

Most American women of European descent accepted the subordinate status of their sex; it was the way life had always been and, as many believed, the way God intended it to be. Yet the rhetoric of liberty and equality prompted a few women—including Abigail Adams, the wife of the prominent Massachusetts Patriot John Adams—to challenge men's dominant position.

a.    What does the correspondence between John and Abigail Adams reveal about men and women in the late eighteenth century?

b.    What kind of guarantee does Abigail seek in order to protect the position of women in American society?

c.    Why does Abigail believe that women's status should change?