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CHAPTER 7 Chapter Review 243-b

SHORT ANSWER
QUESTIONS Read each question carefully and write a short response. Use evidence from the text to support your claims.

2. Answer (a), (b), and (c).
“Hamilton’s assigned duty, upon becoming minister of the
nation’s finances, would be to devise a way of managing a. Briefly explain ONE specific historical argument
the Revolutionary War debts so as to place public credit used to oppose ratifying the Constitution in the
upon firm foundations. . . . Hamilton set for himself ‘the task 1780s.
of making the citizens in every regard more well-behaved,
healthier, wiser, richer, and more secure.’ Specifically, he b. Briefly explain ONE specific historical argument
proposed to use his administration of the public finances used to support ratifying the Constitution in the
as an instrument for forging the American people into a 1780s.
prosperous, happy, and respected nation.” c. Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or
Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, 1979
development represents an accomplishment of the
“His [Alexander Hamilton’s] plans . . . were not only a catalyst national government under the Constitution between
for sectional confrontation. They seemed an excellent 1787 and 1820.
confirmation of persistent Antifederalist suspicions of an 3. Answer (a), (b), and (c).
engulfing federal power. . . . Coming in conjunction with
the high style of the new government, the antipopulistic a. Briefly explain ONE specific way in which the
pronouncements of some of its supporters, and measures development of the two-party political system
such as an excise tax and a professional army, the transformed the government of the United States
Hamiltonian program might as well have been designed to between 1787 and 1820.
awaken specific expectations about the course and nature
of governmental decay that were never very far beneath b. Briefly explain ONE important way in which the
the surface of revolutionary minds.” development of the two party system between 1787
Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party and 1820 transformed the relationship between the
Ideology, 1978 United States and European nations.
c. Briefly explain ONE specific historical
transformation in the United States society resulting
1. Using the two excerpts provided, answer (a), (b), and (c). from the development of the two-party political
a. Briefly explain ONE major difference between system between 1787 and 1820.
McDonald’s and Banning’s 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’s 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’s interpretation.

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