First+Five+Presidents+Exam

Prepare for Five Presidents Exam by:

1) Thoroughly reading and highlighting AMSCO review packet.

2) Using the Call Me Liberty Webiste - [|Outline and quizzes]

3) Review guided readings, quizzes & notes, //Give Me Liberty// Chapter 8 290-327 Washington - Madison) & Chapter 10 378-388 (Monroe)

4) Review Student Search/Study Guide Activity

5) Study Guide for FRQ Lite 

6) [|Click here]& review instructions for writing a thesis statement when topic is assigned and how to distinguish a weak one from a strong one

Just in case you cannot down load the FRQ Study Guide: STUDY GUIDE The First Five Presidents FRQ Lite APUSH

You will be asked to select two or three of the following topics. You will **not** write a complete essay. Instead, you will formulate a thesis statement and you will generate a list of clear and legible facts that would be used as evidence to support your position. **//As you will not know in advance which topics will be selected you must be prepared for all five.//**


 * POSSIBLE PROMPTS:**

1) Compare & contrast "loose" and "strict" constructionist views of the Constitution. To what extent did one interpretation better served the new nation?

2) Discuss whether the Missouri Compromise of 1820 resolved the conflict over slavery or if it actually served to increase sectionalist tensions in the United States.

3) Trace the evolution of the term "Era of Good Feelings" and discuss how aptly it described Monroe's administration.

4) Compare & Contrast the Monroe Doctrine to Washington's Farewell Address to determine whether it supported or negated Washington's preference for foreign policy?

5) Discuss the significant change brought about by the War of 1812.

**Example: This is what you will be asked to do:**

 * Step 1:** Read and select the prompts you are most comfortable with.


 * PROMPT:** Discuss how the Alien & Sedition Acts was labeled by some as the "Federalist Witch Hunt"


 * Step 2:** **THESIS:** Formulate a thesis statement as if you are going to write a complete essay.

//Although the Federalists would deny it, The Alien & Sedition Acts was clearly an attempt to silence the critics of the Federalist Party.//


 * //Step 3://** Create a list of historical evidence that you would use to support the thesis.


 * LIST OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE:**

1. Under these laws it became more difficult to become a citizen. The Federalists wanted this because most naturalized citizens voted for Democratic-Republican candidates.

2. The Alien Act gave the president the authority to deport any immigrant he considered dangerous. Immigrants feared the law and some chose to leave rather than risk deportation.

3. The Sedition Act was the most obvious attempt to silence the critics of the Federalist Party as it became illegal to speak or print "false, scandalous and malicious" statements against Congress or the President.

4. Critics of the laws alleged that they were a direct violation to the Bill of Rights.

5. The Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions demonstrated that the Democratic Republicans were not going to permit that kind of a witch hunt. Although never passed, they would have given the states the right to nullify a federal law.