Appointed by John Adams, he was the Chief Justice whose rulings helped empower the federal government over the states
Who is John Marshall?
100
Living in the South and Southeast in settled agricultural communities, the Chrerokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole were known collectively by this name.
What is "The Five Civilized Tribes"?
100
His tough leadership during Jamestown's first year, is credited with saving that colony from starvation.
Who is John Smith?
100
This claimed that states had the right to nullify unconstitutional laws passed by Congress.
What is the Kentucky Resolution of the Virginia Resolution?
100
They provided critical help in 1778, and during the 1790s harassed us in the Atlantic and insulted our commissioners in Paris.
Who are the French?
200
In this 1803 case involving President John Adams' midnight appointments, the Court for the first time declared an Congressional law to be unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v Madison?
200
This powerful alliance of individual northeastern tribes sided with Britain in the French and Indian War, and officially remained neutral in the American Revolutionary War.
What is The Iroquois Confederacy?
200
Maybe the most important founding father who never became president, he was the ideological opponent of Thomas Jefferson.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.." With these words, Thomas Jefferson ensured his place in history.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
They are the people of mixed Europeans and African descent.
Who are creoles?
300
Following its decisions in Cherokee Nation v Georgia and Worcester v Georgia, he openly defied the Court, refusing to enforce its rulings.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
This rebellion began in response to Spanish intolerance of Indian religious practices and customs, and ended in the form of a compromise between the two warring sides.
What is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
300
As the author of Common Sense, he helped push the Americans to ask not for greater rights within the empire, but for independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
This established the first version of the United States, one that wasn't very united.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
They were adventurous traders and fur trappers who lived and worked alongside, and intermarried with, Native peoples in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.
Who are Coureurs de Bois?
400
Appointed by Andrew Jackson in 1835, this Chief Justice began to chip away at his predecessor's rulings favoring the federal government over the states and commercial interests over those of the less well to do.
Who is Roger Taney?
400
The leader of this mid-Atlantic colony, like Roger Williams in Rhode Island, paid Native Americans for their land and treated them with respect.
What is Pennsylvania?
400
Before becoming president, he was a successful secretary of state - aggressively engineering Spain's surrender of all of Florida to the United States.
What is John Quincy Adams
400
In 1787,this established rules for for how territories in the area north of the Ohio River would become states, including a feature that would prohibit slavery in those new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
Not only did they respect Indians' land rights, they were pacifists, and gave women authority in the church equal to that of men.
Who are the Society of Friends, or Quakers?
500
This 1819 case determined that the Bank of the US was constitutional, thus establishing the principle of implied powers for the federal government.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
500
This, the bloodiest war between colonists and Native Americans during the 17th century, ended the Wampanoag resistance to New England colonial settlement.
What is King Philip's War?
500
His "American System" called for tariffs, the Bank of the US and internal improvements to help develop the national economy
Who is Henry Clay?
500
In this, Alexander Hamilton laid out his plan for stimulating the growth of industry in the United States through a national bank, taking over state debts and imposing tariffs and excise taxes.
What is the "Report on Manufactures" of 1791
500
They were the subject of the events both at Stono in 1739 and in Missouri in 1820.