Articles of Confederation to The U.S. Constitution
Key Supreme Court Cases
Civil War and Reconstruction
U.S. Emerges as a World Power
100
The British Victory of this war was expensive and nearly doubled Britain's national debt. As a result, in 1760, the British parliament asserted colonists should pay new taxes to help the empire.
What is The French and Indian War
100
The year in which the Articles of Confederation were adopted by 13 states. These Articles gave the majority of the rights to each state government. The federal government did not have the power to regulate trade/ commerce, levy taxes, make treaties, declare war or much else.
What is 1781
100
This Supreme Court Case of 1803 Declared an act of Congress unconstitutional and established the Judicial Review.
What is Marbury Vs. Madison
100
President Abraham Lincoln issued this in January of 1863 and it declared all slaves within any State or designated part of a State free.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation.
100
This man (1840 -1914) was responsible for urging American leaders to build a stronger navy and obtain naval bases in Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines. He also argued that the United States should build a canal across Central America so ships could move quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan
200
A tax on printed materials and legal documents implemented in 1765
What is The Stamp Act
200
The plan proposed by Robert Sherman that settled the differences between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans and created a bicameral legislature where the senate would represent small and large states equally, but the House of Representatives would take into account population.
What is The Great Compromise
200
This Supreme Court Case established that Separate but Equal was Constitutional.
What is Plessy Vs. Ferguson
200
The General and Commander of the Armies of the Southern Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
This Commodore convinced Japan to open trade with the United States in 1853.
Who is Matthew Perry
300
The acts of 1774 which were a British response to the Boston Tea Party and intended to punish Boston.
What is Coercive Acts
300
The person who created the Virginia Plan which sought to give more representation to larger states.
What is James Madison
300
This Supreme Court Case overturned a previous case establishing separate but equal facilities and led to the integration of schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
300
This Battle in July 1863 was where Union Troops destroyed 1/3 of the Confederate army and marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the north.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg
300
The Purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 was titled this because many thought Alaska to be a big block of ice. In reality it was rich in timber, gold, oil and other resources.
What is Seward's Folly
400
In 1775 where the first shots of the American REvolution were fired.
What is Lexington and Concord
400
In 1791 the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to guarantee citizens basic rights. This amendment provided Due process, double jeopardy and freedom from self incrimination.
What is the 5th amendment
400
The Charter of a Private Constitution is protected under the Constitution.
What is Dartmouth College vs. Woodward 1819
400
This agency was designated to aid freed slaves and relieve the South's immediate needs.
What is The Freedmans Bureau
400
This philposophy was in contrast to the Monroe Doctrine and established the United States as the "Police Force" of the Western Hemisphere.
What is Roosevelt's Corollary
500
In 1781 this fleet trapped the British army at Yorktown in Virginia where General George Washington completed the victory.
What is the French Fleet
500
After two terms in office, George Washington retired. Federalist John Adams was elected in 1796. A foreign policy crisis with France arose. Jay's treaty offended many French and they began seizing American Merchant Ships. These Acts were created in response.
What are The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
500
This Affirmed Federal Control of interstate Commerce Under Commerce clause of the Constitution.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824)
500
This amendment guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to any person born in the United States including African Americans.
What is the 14th amendment
500
This led the United States to abandon isolationism and join WWI. It established that Mexico and Germany would ally against the United States. However, it was intercepted before it reached the Mexican leader.