Founding Documents
This document served as the first governing framework of the United States but was replaced due to its weaknesses.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This first political party supported a strong central government and was led by Alexander Hamilton.
What is the Federalist Party?
This case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These laws, passed under John Adams, were criticized as attempts to suppress opposition to Federalists.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. and was purchased from this country.
What is France?
Ratification debates over the Constitution led to the creation of these essays.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison founded this party in opposition to Federalist policies.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
McCulloch v. Maryland vindicated Alexander Hamilton by upholding the implied powers of this Constitutional phrase.
What is the "necessary and proper" clause?
This law, passed under President Jefferson, aimed to prevent war by halting all American exports but devastated the economy.
What is the Embargo Act?
This conflict, known as “Mr. Madison’s War,” was fought against Britain over trade restrictions and impressment.
What is the War of 1812?
The addition of this to the Constitution helped convince Anti-Federalists to support ratification.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This faction of the Democratic-Republican party adopted much of the ideas of the original Federalist party.
Who were the National Republics?
Gibbons v. Ogden gave Congress sole authority over this area the U.S. economy.
What is interstate commerce?
The so-called "Corrupt Bargain" led to this person becoming president in 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This president declared that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to future European colonization.
Who is James Monroe?
The Declaration of Independence drew heavily on this philosopher’s ideas about natural rights and the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
This quote aligns most closely with this faction:
But rulers have the same habits as other men; they are as likely to use the power with which they are vested, for private purposes, and to the injury and oppression of those over whom they are placed, as individuals in a state of nature are to injure and oppress one another. It is therefore as proper that bounds should be set to their authority, as that government should have at first been instituted to restrain private injuries . . .
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Chief Justice John Marshall belong to this political party.
Who are the Federalists?
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and this state as a free state.
What is Maine?
This treaty with Britain averted war in the 1790s but was unpopular due to perceived concessions on U.S. neutrality rights.
What is Jay’s Treaty?
This provision of the Articles of Confederation is considered one of its few successes for its prohibition of slavery and expansion of education in certain places.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
-Implied Constitutional powers
-Congress can create a national bank
-Bill of Rights not necessary
The ideas above align with this view of the Constitution?
What is loose interpretation?
The decision in this case ruled that state courts did not have jurisdiction over Cherokee lands (Hint: It's not Cherokee Nation v. Georgia)
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Andrew Jackson fell out with his current vice president John C. Calhoun over this domestic dispute. (Multiple answers can be correct)
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
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What is the nullification crisis?
James Monroe's Secretary of State secured Florida from the Spanish through this 1819 treaty.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?