Congressional Acts
This Act of Congress relocated Native Americans to Oklahoma and led to the Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
This court case decided that black people are not citizens and can’t sue in federal courts
Dred Scott Case
It is our god given right to expand sea to shining sea
Manifest Destiny
Declared "that all persons held as slaves" ...within the rebellious states... "are, and henceforward shall be free."
The Emancipation Proclamation
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This Act of Congress proposed popular sovereignty to determine slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Established the principle of Judicial Review (Supreme Court had the final authority to determine constitutionality.)
Marbury vs. Madison
Doubled the size of the US for $15million
Louisiana Purchase
Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
The best selling book of all time
The Bible (5-7 Billion copies sold worldwide)
This Act of Congress separated the country along the 36*30' line, with free states north of the line and slave states south of the line
The Missouri Compromise
This Act of Congress created 16 new federal judgeships, ensuring a Federalist hold on the judiciary.
The Judiciary Act
This war added California, New Mexico, and Arizona to the United States
Mexican-American War
Gave the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
This soft drink once contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients
Coca-Cola
This Act of Congress required all northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners in the south
The Fugitive Slave Act(s)
Defends loose construction of Constitution & implied powers of government
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Fueled a massive influx of people to the West, leading to rapid population growth and development.
California Gold Rush
All persons born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S.
14th Amendment
Taylor Swift's first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100
"Tim McGraw"
This Act of Congress admitted California as a free state, strengthened the fugitive slave law, allowed the federal assumption of Texas' debt, allowed popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico, and ended the slave trade in D.C.
The Compromise of 1850
This court case decided that private property can be taken to any territory and legally held there.
Dred Scott case
Sparked a war with Mexico, adding a vast territory to the United States and fueling westward expansion.
Annexation of Texas
Major Union victories at Antietam and Gettysburg, & the Emancipation Proclamation
Turning points of the Civil War
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