Joshua White
NAME _______________________________________ DATE 09/30/2020 3rd Period
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Guided Reading Activity netw rks
Federalists and Republicans, 1789–1816
Lesson 2 Partisan Politics
Review Questions: Identifying Supporting Details
DIRECTIONS: Read each main idea. Use your textbook to supply the details that support
or explain each main idea.
A. Main Idea: Treaties with Britain and Spain maintained peace and allowed
for western expansion.
1. Detail: When _______
France declared war on Britain, the British began _________
intercepting all
ships going to their enemy’s ports.
2. Detail: From forts in the West, British soldiers reportedly encouraged
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Native Americans to attack settlers.
3. Detail: This led the United States to the brink of war in the year ___________.
1794
4. Detail: In an agreement called ___________,
Jay's Treaty the British gave up their ___________
forts
in the West and granted America a ____________________ trade status.
most-favorite nation
5. Detail: In 1795, _________
Spain gave the United States the right to navigate the
_____________ River and use the port of _____________.
Mississippi New Orleans
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B. Main Idea: Partisan disagreements and the election of 1800 divided the country.
1. Detail: Angered by the Democratic-Republicans, the Federalists passed laws trying to
restrict aliens’ rights and prevent rebellion known as the ______________________.
Alien and Sedition Acts
2. Detail: Republicans, critical of these laws, passed resolutions introducing two
theories of law: _______________
The Virginia Resolutions and _______________.
The Kentucky Resolutions Both argued that states
could declare federal laws _____________.
unconstitutional
3. Detail: The election of _____
1800 was very close. Because of a tie in the _____________
Electoral
__________,
College it was decided in the ___________________________.
House of Representatives
4. Detail: __________________
Thomas Jefferson became the third president.
5. Detail: The election of 1800 set a precedent for the __________
peaceful transfer of power
between American political parties.
Summary and Reflection
DIRECTIONS: Summarize the main ideas of this lesson by answering the question below.
Why was the election of 1800 an important validation of the Constitution after the rise of
political parties?
With every important house of government belonging to the Federalists, they could
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have undermined the Constitution, yet they didn't because they truly believed in the
Constitution. It showed that despite differences, they had enough integrity to abide by
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the laws they helped make.
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