supreme court cases
The U.S supreme court case that would establish the principle of judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
First president to serve with being elected into office, the tenth president of the united states
John Tyler
belief in the supposed inevitability of the United States expanding its borders westward across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean and beyond
manifest destiny
passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to make full citizens of and guarantee the rights of the freed slaves
Civil Rights Act of 1866 & 1875
The United States would accept nothing less from the British than all of the Oregon Country, as far north as the border of Alaska
"Fifty-Four or Fight!”
Court held that Congress had the power to incorporate the bank and that Maryland could not tax instruments of the national government employed in the execution of constitutional powers
McCulloch v. Maryland
Referred to as the “dark horse”, 11th president of the united states
James Polk
sham construction company chartered to build the Union Pacific Railroad by financing it with unmarketable bonds
Credit Mobilier
A bill that required states constitution’s to abolish slavery, no successions and Confederates couldn’t hold vote or hold a political position
Wade-Davis Act
a division of disputed territory, giving 7,015 square miles to the United States and 5,012 to Great Britain
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
court agreed with Dartmouth College that it was unconstitutional for New Hampshire to pass legislature to turn the college into a public university
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
African American politician, minister and college administrator and was able to vote before the Civil War in Ohio
Hiram Revels
Northern Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Removed the last restrictions held upon ex-Confederates except if they were top leaders in the Confederacy
Amnesty Act of 1872
The financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
Panic of 1873
established the principle that states cannot, by legislative enactment, interfere with the power of Congress to regulate commerce
Gibbons v. Ogden
“Father of American Cartoon”
Thoams Nast
southern Radical Republicans
Scalawags
gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land in the cotton kingdom east of the Mississippi for land to the west
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Informal and unwritten deal that helped settle the 1876 US Presidential election dispute and ended federal support from the South which ended the Reconstruction Era
Compromise of 1877
Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the common-law doctrine of criminal conspiracy did not apply to labour unions
Commonwealth v. Hunt
A person born into slavery and eventually became a politician that represented Mississippi in the US Senate
Blanche K. Bruce
Democrats who had political control in Louisiana in late 1800s and believed in states rights and white supremacy. They strongly disliked African Americans and wanted them to have less rights.
Redeemers
japan would protect stranded seamen and open two ports for refueling and provisioning American ships: Shimoda and Hakodate
Mathew C. Perry/Kanagawa Treaty
Rutherford B. Hayes won, but disputes arose since Tilden won in popular vote, but not by Electoral College
Election of 1876