SAQs for APUSH Topic 4.2 — The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson:
2 min readApr 16, 2021
Two short answer questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to the rise, during the time of America’s third president, of the very thing that George Washington believed “agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another and foments occasionally riot and insurrection.”
- In 1800, the United States began to develop a modern democracy. In a modern democracy, political parties debate, the “common man” gets to vote, the courts have the power of judicial review, and the president has a cabinet (aka advisors). What is meant by the term “common man?” Name a president who was elected between 1800–1848 and after having received a large number of votes from the common man? What is the power of judicial review? What US Supreme Court case decided between 1800–1848 granted the judicial branch the power of judicial review. Name one argument in favor of and one argument in opposition to judicial review.
- Between 1800–1848, the nation transformed to a more participatory democracy, this accompanied by the growth of political parties. The first two political parties consisted of the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party or the Anti-Federalists. Which of these two supported the ratification of the Constitution? Which opposed the powerful central government that the Constitution established when it took effect in 1789. The Democratic-Republicans supported something called “strict construction as opposed “loose construction”? What’s meant by the phrase “a strict construction of the constitution? Which of the two parties favored planters and farmers? Appealed to the elites as opposed to the common man?
