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Launching the Ship of State: Chapter 10

1) What were some of the attitudes and ideas that challenged the infant US at the outset? (pp. 189-90)

2) What did the Judiciary Act of 1789 establish, and how did it do it?

3) Why did Alexander Hamilton want to favor the wealthy? Why did he think that this kind of bribery was vital to the health of the new nation?

4) Why did he also want the federal government to assume the states’ debts?

5) What was the compromise that was forged to allow Hamilton’s ideas to become law?

6) Why did he see debt as a “national blessing?”

7) What was it that “Citizen Genet” was trying to do? How did he try to do it?

8) What did Pinckney’s Treaty of 1795 gain for the US? Why was Spain eager to sign it?

9) What were the problems with John Adams that made it somewhat difficult to like him? (pg. 201)

10) Describe and explain the outcome of the “XYZ Affair.”

11) What did the US gain from the Convention of 1800? How did his actions help President Jefferson with one of his greatest achievements?

12) Explain the “Compact Theory.”

13) What were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? Who were the authors?

14) Speculate about what would have happened if the states, and not the Supreme Court, were responsible for “judicial review?”

15) Compare and contrast Jefferson’s and Hamilton’s views of the best way forward for the United States.