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Supreme Court

100

This case involved the establishment of Judicial Review of Congress' laws

Marbury v. Madison

200

This case helped to establish that interstate commerce was regulated by Congress, NOT individual states

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Gibbons v. Ogden

300

The Bank of the United States was upheld in McCulloch v. Maryland as an example of Congress' ability to make laws that are this, as long as they are constitutional.

Necessary and proper

400

The principle that contracts are binding and cannot be interfered with by states under the constitution was established by these cases.

Fletcher v. Peck, Dartmouth College v. Woodward

500

The decisions in Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, Fletcher v. Peck, and Dartmouth College v. Woodward all promote this principle, due to their emphasis on the supremacy of Congress and the Constitution.

Federalism

Jefferson

100

Jefferson contrasted with Federalists in supporting this view of government.

Anti-Federalism: that states should uphold their rights, the Federal government should be small, taxes should be low, and that the Constitution should be followed strictly.

200

This was the first war that the United States fought in a foreign land, rather than on its own soil.

The Barbary Pirate War

300

Jefferson believed that, rather than relying on banks and government regulation, the future of American economic success should be based on the private ownership of land. This event helped to put his plan into action.

The Louisiana Purchase

400

The Embargo Act was intended to do this. It had the opposite effect, and resulted in the temporary collapse of the U.S. economy.

End impressment and the war between Britain and France by refusing to sell either side goods until the  war ended.

500

This principle, believed in by Jefferson, represented a belief that businesses would work best if they were taxed minimally and left alone by the government to make their own decisions regarding workers' pay and the prices of their goods.

"Laissez Faire"

War of 1812

100

The war was promoted by this group of American congressmen, who wanted the US to adopt an aggressive foreign policy against their enemies.

"War Hawks"

200

One of the main causes of the war, this action by the British angered many Americans.

Impressment of sailors.

300

These Native American leaders sought to unify tribes against US settlers on the frontier.

Tecumseh and "The Prophet".

400

The construction of an American naval fleet during this war allowed the US, a few years later, to enforce a doctrine preventing Europeans from interfering in the independence of nations in North and South America.

The Monroe Doctrine

500

The War began in this year.

1812