Unit 4 Learning Targets
- I can explain the major domestic and foreign issues of the Washington presidency.
- I can describe the precedents established by George Washington.
- I can summarize the plan Alexander Hamilton proposed to get the country out of debt in the 1790s.
- I can explain why political parties started in America.
- I can compare and contrast the differences between the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party.
- I can explain the major domestic and foreign issues of the Adams presidency.
- I can explain the major domestic and foreign issues of the Jefferson presidency.
- I can identify the significance of the year 1803.
- I can explain the major domestic and foreign issues of the Madison presidency.
- I can explain the causes, important events, and results of the War of 1812.
- I can explain the major domestic and foreign issues of the Monroe presidency.
- I can describe the importance of selected landmark Supreme Court cases, such as Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Gibbons v. Ogden.
- I can explain how Chief Justice John Marshall affected the American government.