Colony Creation
founded in 1607 in hope of gold and riches. Many died due to disease and native conflicts.
What is Jamestown?
This required colonists to provide housing and provisions for British troops stationed in America
What is the Quartering Act? (1765)
This European country created military and economic alliances with natives around the St. Lawrence River. They had a more positive relationship with natives
What is France?
This court case established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This creator of the American System promoted internal improvements, increased trade within the nation, and tariffs.
Who is Henry Clay?
James Oglethorpe's penal colony
What is Georgia?
Made it illegal for newspaper editors to criticize the president or Congress. Passed under John Adams' presidency.
What is the Sedition Act?
In the Spanish casta system, this group is at the top. They were Spaniards born in Spain.
What are Peninsulares?
This court case said the Supreme Court could review a state court's decision involving any power of the federal government.
What is Cohens v. Virginia?
Thomas Jefferson took this action to reduce the size of the federal government and national debt by repealing these type of taxes.
What are excise taxes?
Established by George Calvert as a proprietary colony providing a safe haven for Catholics
What is Maryland?
General licenses to search anywhere
What are writs of assistance?
This nation had rights to lands west of the Line of Demarcation according to the Treaty of Tordesillas
What is Spain?
The ruling in Dartmouth College v. Woodward was that a contract for a private corporation could not be altered by this
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Hartford Convention, and the Nullification Theory all promoted these rights.
What are states' rights?
Founded in 1636 due to the banishment of Roger Williams and need for a colony that promoted religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
These placed taxes on tea, glass, and paper. They also suspended colonial assemblies.
What are the Townshend Acts? (1767)
Bartolome de Las Casas promoted for better treatment of Natives in these debates.
What are the Valladolid Debates?
McCulloch v. Maryland was a case saying that the state could not tax a federal institution. Marshall said the Constitution gave the federal government this type of power.
What is implied power?
This statement declared that European powers should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
The colonists here advocated for egalitarianism, non-violence, and objected to military service. Often faced persecution for beliefs such as opposition to slavery.
What is Pennsylvania?
This act was put into effect after the repeal of the Stamp Act stating the Parliament had the right to tax the colonies
What is the Declaratory Act? (1766)
Pinckney's Treaty with Spain was significant because it allowed the U.S. to use this
What is the port of New Orleans? (Mississippi River)
This case said that the federal government has control over interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden (1821)?
A major consequence of the Tariff of Abominations in 1828 was the ideology of this theory that states can cancel federal laws is deemed unconstitutional.
What is the Nullification Theory?