Colonial Founders
American Revolution
Early Republic
Constitution
Supreme Court
100
Pennsylvania
William Penn
100
Turning point of the war
Battle of Saratoga
100
This was the Western border of the United States
Mississippi River
100
Who is known as the father of the Constitution for the notes he kept at the convention
James Madison
100
Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
200
Plymouth
William Bradford
200
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
200
This president agonized over the consitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
200
This ensured that the people would not have direct election of the President of the United States
Electoral College
200
Federal Government controls interstate commerce
Gibbons v. Ogden
300
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
300
The Boston Tea Party caused this set of Acts to be passed by England
Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts
300
Act that made illegal the criticism of the national government or its leaders
Sedition Acts
300
This is the principal that ensures that states retain powers and share powers with the national government
Federalism
300
Power of contract is binding
Woodward v. Dartmouth
400
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
400
The war ended here
Yorktowne
400
Written by Madison and Jefferson, these stated that a state had the right to nullify a law it found to be unconstitutional
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
400
This ensured that slaves would be counted towards population for representation purposes in the House of Representatives
3/5ths Compromise
400
Slaves are not citizens and Nullifies the Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scot
500
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
500
Thomas Paine wrote what pamplet to influence independence?
Common Sense
500
Through the creation of a national bank and assumption of state war debts, this secretary of the treasury set up the nation's credit
Alexander Hamilton
500
The failure of this meeting led to the Constitutional Convention
Annapolis Convention
500
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
John Jay
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