Oklahoma State Standards

8.4 The student will examine the political and economic changes that occurred during the Early Federal Period.

8.5 The student will analyze the political and geographic changes that occurred during the Jeffersonian Era.

8.6 The student will examine the political, economic and social transformations during the “Era of Good Feelings”.

8.4.1 Analyze the impact of the Whiskey Rebellion and enforcement of the government’s right to tax.

8.4.2 Describe President Washington’s attempt to develop a cohesive Indian policy, which included

respectful interactions with American Indian leaders, treaties to delineate tribal lands, and precedent-setting

practices of assimilation.

8.4.3 Describe the advice in President Washington’s Farewell Address and its impact.

8.4.4 Evaluate the impact of the Alien and Sedition Acts on individual rights during the Adams

Administration, including the responses of the Democratic-Republicans in the Virginia and Kentucky

Resolutions.

8.5.1 Explain the impact of the peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another, as exhibited by

the presidential election of 1800.

8.5.2 Analyze the impact of the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief John Marshall and the Marbury

v. Madison decision which confirmed the principle of judicial review.

8.5.3 Analyze the acquisition of the Louisiana territory, the contributions of the Lewis and Clark Corps of

Discovery Expedition, and the eventual establishment of the Indian Territory.

8.6.1 Explain how the War of 1812 confirmed American independence and fueled a spirit of nationalism,

reflected in the lyrics of our national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key.

8.6.2 Examine the Monroe Doctrine as a policy of isolationism which was designed to protect American

interests in the Western Hemisphere.

8.6.3 Analyze the impact of McCulloch v. Maryland which established federal supremacy concerning taxation.

8.6.4 Examine the increased tension between Southern sectionalist and Northern nationalist perspectives.

8.6.5 Summarize the impact of the Missouri Compromise on the expansion of slavery into new western

territories.