US I Unit VI

An Emerging Nation
Unit Guide

Unit Essential Question: What were some successes and challenges for
the new American nation?

Key Questions:
• What domestic challenges did George Washington face during his
presidency?
• What was Alexander Hamilton’s plan to fix the national debt?
• What foreign policy difficulties did George Washington face during
his presidency?
• What are the origins of political parties in the United States?
• How can the presidency of John Adams be characterized?
• What was Thomas Jefferson’s philosophy of leadership?
• How did the United States gain territory and double its size in 1803?
• What were the causes of the War of 1812?
• What are the origins of the “Era of Good Feelings?’
• What major changes defined the beginning of the Industrial
Revolution?
• How did the IR divide the country?
• What was Henry Clay’s ‘American System’ and how did it make the
US stronger before and after the panic of 1819?
• In what ways were Americans persuaded to expand westward in the
early 1800s?
• How was the United States involved in foreign affairs from 1815-
1823 and what was Monroe’s role in the involvement?

Terms:

Judiciary Act of 1789 Impressment Judicial Review

Alexander Hamilton Right of deposit Aaron Burr
Bank of the United Sectionalism Twelfth Amendment
States French Revolution John Marshall
Whiskey Rebellion Edmond Genet Marbury V. Madison
Little Turtle John Jay Louisiana Purchase
Anthony Wayne Jay’s Treaty Toussaint Louverture
Battle of Fallen Pickney’s Treaty Meriwether Lewis
Timbers Thomas Pickney William Clark
Treaty of Greenvillle XYZ affair Sacagawea
Cabinet Alien and Sedition Zebulon Pike
Strict construction Acts Orders in Council
Loose Construction Kentucky and Embargo Act
Capitalism Virginia Resolutions Non-Intercourse Act
 Tecumseh Andrew Jackson
William Henry Battle of New
Harrison Orleans
Battle of Tippecanoe Treaty of Ghent
Battle of Thames Hartford Convention
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