Cases Supreme
What court case established the power of Judicial Review, the Supreme Court’s greatest power?
Marbury v . Madison
This compromise called for enslaved in the South to be counted as a fraction of a person in terms of a state’s population. They would probably wanted to have counted for less…
The 3/5ths Compromise
After this form of protest on December 16, 1773, Britain passed increasingly tough Intolerable Acts as punishment against the rebelling colonists.
Boston Tea Party
Loyalists, wanted to remain loyal to the British crown, while these colonists wanted to make war against the crown and win back their liberties.
Patriots
The United States had an advantage in this over the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War.
Industry
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Jackson defied the Supreme Court when they sided in favor of the Native Americans in this 1832 Supreme Court case involving Native American Removal.
Worcester v. Georgia
This compromise had the Framers in agreement about how the states should be represented in Congress, in BOTH of the houses…
The Great Compromise
Both the British and French committed this crime against American sailors before the War of 1812.
Impressment
Jefferson (and others) were not sure if the Constitution allowed him to make this groundbreaking, or ground-adding, decision.
The enslaved populations living in rebelling territories were officially freed when Lincoln issued this.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Supreme Court decided that all African Americans, free or not, were not American citizens. And that Congress could not make any law regulating slavery because they were Americans’ property. .. in this case.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine entered as a free state, and a compromise line was used to dictate whether future states would be free or slave in this compromise.
Missouri Compromise
After the French and Indian War, King George said his British colonists could not move westward of the Appalachian Mountains when he passed this law.
The Proclamation of 1763
Federalists and Anti-Federalists disagreed over whether including this in the Constitution was necessary.
The Bill of Rights
Using a naval blockade, controlling the Mississippi River and holding the border states were all a part of this plan for the United States in the Civil War.
The Supreme Court’s decision in this case held that Lincoln could not suspend habeas corpus because it went against the Constitution.
Ex Parte Merryman
This compromise:
Admitted California as a "free state,"
Provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico
Established a boundary between Texas and the United States
Called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC
Amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
King George and Britain passed laws like this after they won the French and Indian War, enraging the colonists.
Any tax / law that the British passed after the French and Indian War
- WITH description.
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The Tariff of Abominations led to this event in which South Carolina threatened to leave the United States.
The Nullification Crisis
The Confederacy wanting to enlist aid from the French and the British to help them win the War of Northern Aggression is referred to as…
King Cotton Diplomacy
In this case the Supreme Court decided that the federal government also had all powers that were “necessary and proper” to carry out their regular duties.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
The Compromise of 1877 primarily did these two things.
Appointed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to President.
Called for Southern Democrats to handle race relations on their own without the federal troops.
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This agreement called for popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in two new states.
This war ended and the United States was so patriotic that it was thrust into an
“Era of Good Feelings”
The War of 1812
Fiercely against immigrants in the United States, these Americans were called this.
Nativists
These laws in the South following the end of Reconstruction discriminated against black Americans, often relegating them to a lower class of citizen.
Black Codes
OR
Jim Crow Laws