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CHAPTER 7 AP%u00ae Exam Practice 293SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONSRead each question carefully and write a short response. Use evidence from the text to support your claims.1. Using the two excerpts provided, answer (a), (b), and (c).a. Briefly explain ONE major difference between McDonald%u2019s and Banning%u2019s historical interpretations about Alexander Hamilton.b. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period 1787 to 1820 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support McDonald%u2019s interpretation.c. Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development from the period 1787 to 1820 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Banning%u2019s interpretation.%u201cHamilton%u2019s assigned duty, upon becoming minister of the nation%u2019s finances, would be to devise a way of managing the Revolutionary War debts so as to place public credit upon firm foundations. . . . Hamilton set for himself %u2018the task of making the citizens in every regard more well-behaved, healthier, wiser, richer, and more secure.%u2019 Specifically, he proposed to use his administration of the public finances as an instrument for forging the American people into a prosperous, happy, and respected nation.%u201dForrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, 19792. Answer (a), (b), and (c).a. Briefly explain ONE specific historical argument used to oppose ratifying the Constitution in the 1780s.b. Briefly explain ONE specific historical argument used to support ratifying the Constitution in the 1780s.c. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development represents an accomplishment of the national government under the Constitution between 1787 and 1820.3. Answer (a), (b), and (c).a. Briefly explain ONE specific way in which the development of the two-party political system transformed the government of the United States between 1787 and 1820.b. Briefly explain ONE important way in which the development of the two-party system between 1787 and 1820 transformed the relationship between the United States and European nations.c. Briefly explain ONE specific historical transformation in U.S. society resulting from the development of the two-party political system between 1787 and 1820.%u201cHis [Alexander Hamilton%u2019s] plans . . . were not only a catalyst for sectional confrontation. They seemed an excellent confirmation of persistent Antifederalist suspicions of an engulfing federal power. . . . Coming in conjunction with the high style of the new government, the antipopulistic pronouncements of some of its supporters, and measures such as an excise tax and a professional army, the Hamiltonian program might as well have been designed to awaken specific expectations about the course and nature of governmental decay that were never very far beneath the surface of revolutionary minds.%u201dLance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, 1978%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.