Legal Terms and Judicial Decisions
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100
The Supreme Court decision that found that the Cherokees in Georgia were a “distinct community, occupying its own territory.”
What is "Worcester v. Georgia"?
100
This gave the United States the area of Texas above the Rio Grande as well as New Mexico and California.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
100
According to historians, this class was distinct from farmers in that they owned at least twenty slaves.
What is the planter class?
100
Political party that arose in response to the powerful Democratic Party that was organized around the charismatic leadership of Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
100
Finished in 1825, this crossed 350 miles between Albany and Buffalo and linked the port of New York City with the entire Great Lakes region.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
This Supreme Court ruling proved to be one of the darkest moments in American history for African Americans.
What is the "Dred Scott" decision?
200
This agreement angered Tecumseh because William Henry Harrison negotiated with several Native American chiefs who had no legitimate claims to the land they ceded to the U.S. government.
What is the Treaty of Fort Wayne?
200
Small southern farmers who owned their own land.
What are yeomen farmers?
200
So named for the secret agreement between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay that allowed Adams to be president and Clay to be Secretary of State.
What is the "corrupt bargain?"
200
Meeting of women and their male supporters in 1848 that advocated for equal rights and suffrage for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
Doctrine advanced by John C. Calhoun which would allow states to ignore acts of Congress when Congress overstepped its constitutional powers.
What is nullification?
300
This officially ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
300
Slave whose role it was to force other slaves to work harder in the fields.
What is a slave driver?
300
Spawned by anti-immigrant sentiment in the mid-1850s, the members of this new political party considered themselves to be the real Americans.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
300
A Civil War law that exempted from military service one white male on every plantation with twenty or more slaves.
What is the twenty-Negro law?
400
This ruling was used by Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall to implement the principle of judicial review.
What is "Marbury v. Madison"?
400
The 30,000 square miles of Mexican territory in present-day Arizona and New Mexico that cost the United States $15 million.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
400
This group was like slaves in that their husbands demanded that they be subordinate.
What is a plantation mistress?
400
Organized in the heat of the presidential election of 1860, this political party basically offered a nonplatform advising Americans to calm down and obey the law.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
400
Founded by Lyman Beecher in 1826, this organization sought to encourage voluntary moderation of alcohol consumption.
What is the American Temperance Union?
500
This legal doctrine held that a wife’s civil life was completely subsumed by her husband.
What is "feme covert"?
500
This agreement secured Florida from Spain.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
500
Although this class of person was free, he or she had to pay special taxes, was prohibited from interstate travel, was denied the right to have schools and to participate in politics, and was forced to carry "freedom papers."
What are Southern free blacks?
500
Meeting of the Federalist Party in 1814 that spoke out against the War of 1812 and sought to protect their rights as a political minority.
What is the Hartford Convention?
500
This fraudulently obtained proslavery document threatened to turn Kansas into a slave state in 1857.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
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