Court Cases
Legalized segregation (separate but equal)
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton,
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
These acts closed Boston Harbor, reduced the power of the Massachusetts legislature, allowed royal officials to be tried in Great Britain and enabled troops to be quartered in private homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
These people opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
What are Anti-Federalists?
The 1st political parties were the.....
What are the Democrat-Republicans and the Federalists?
Separate but equal was unequal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
What is Laissez-Faire?
This ruling after the French and Indian War (7 years war) prohibited colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These changes to the constitution strengthened individual rights and were written to persuade states to ratify it.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These acts were made by the Federalists to punish the Democrat-Republicans. They authorized the President to deport individuals and made it illegal for newspaper editors to criticize the President.
The case that established the precedent of judicial review in the United States.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
A religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s that was a reaction to the Enlightenment.
What is the Great Awakening?
Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
What is the Declaratory Act?
One of the greatest weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation is that Congress did not.....
What is Congress did not have the power to...
South Carolina got the idea for nullification from these two states that opposed and wanted to nullify(disobey) the Alien and Sedition Acts
What are Kentucky and Virginia (the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions)?
Established the right of a defendant to remain silent to protect himself against self incrimination (5th amendment). Occurred in 1966.
What is Miranda vs State of Arizona?
An economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
What is mercantilism?
A secret society that tarred and feathered colonial tax collectors.
What are the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
In 1786, farmers led by this Massachusetts war veteran stopped the collection of taxes, closed debtors courts and attempted to seize weapons from the Springfield Armory.
Who is Shays? (Daniel Shays)
The peaceful transition of power from the Federalists to the Democrat-Republicans was called ..
What is the Revolution of 1800?
Stated that slaves were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott vs Sandford?
A Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What are the Townshend Acts?
3 compromises that were made to get the Constitution ratified were.....
What is the
1. the Great Compromise,
2.the Three-Fifths Compromise and importation ban of slave
3. the Electoral College.
Three of the warnings of Washington in his Farewell Address were....
What is ?
1. not to get involved in European affairs
2. not to make "permanent alliances"
3. not to form political parties
4. not to fall into sectionalism