The Presidents
5th. Last Founding Father to serve as President, reigned over the Era of Good Feelings.
Who is James Monroe?
First Southern State to succeed from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Name of the case that decided that black people could not be citizens whether they were slaves or free.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This revolt against new taxes under Alexander Hamilton's financial system proved the power of the new government under the Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The institution brought to and end by the 13th amendment.
What is slavery?
11th. Presided over the Mexican-American War, annexed the Mexican Cession, Oregon Territory, and Republic of Texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
He was considered to be racist even for the time and is one of 3 presidents to be impeached. Severely limited the original plan for reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This case cemented the constitutionality of the National Bank, supporting the power of the Federal government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The legal system by which the Spanish crown sought to define the status of indigenous people in the Colonies.
What is the Encomienda system?
First 10 amendments to the Constitution, and part of the compromise with anti-federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
15th. The only President to never marry and one of only two Presidents from Pennsylvania
Who is James Buchanan?
Well known black abolitionist and former slave. He encouraged Lincoln to enlist black men. Co-published the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star".
Frederick Douglass
The process for making new supreme court justices.
What is presidential appointment?
This 14th state declared itself an independent Republic in 1777, though its Green Mountain Boys did fight alongside the Colonies in the American Revolution.
What is Vermont?
All people "born or naturalized in the United States" are considered citizens and have equal protection under the law. The most important amendment since the Bill of Rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
9th. Of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" fame. Shortest presidency in American history
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The first African American senator, appointed by Mississippi in 1870.
Who is Hiram Revels?
One of the first major supreme Court cases and established the principle of judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
This final battle of the War of 1812 actually occurred after the Treaty of Ghent ended the war.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
The 15th amendment prohibited the ability to deny voting based on race, but it did not stop which tactics that prevented suffrage? (name 2)
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and property requirements.
13th. The final Whig President, who pushed Congress to pass the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
The effective military of the southern democrats who helped perpetuate the reign of terror. Had to be put down by the military.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
Supreme Justice who led the court in their ruling of the case that created judicial review.
Who was Chief Justice John Marshall?
This state notoriously blockaded change under the Articles of Confederation, blocking 2 otherwise unanimous votes
What is Rhode Island?
The amount of votes from state legislatures needed to ratify an amendment.
What are 3/4ths of the state legislatures?