Court Cases
Georgia legislation repealing a land grant was unconstitutional because it revered rights previously made by the contract
What is Fletcher v. Peck
Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky
Who is Henry Clay
Painter who invented the steamboat
Who Robert Fulton
A law passed by the first Congress to establish the federal court system.
What is the Judiciary Act
agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories
What is the Missouri Compromise
Supreme Court ruling (1819) confirming the supremacy of national over state government
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
(1807) a law that prohibited American merchants from trading with other countries
What is the embargo act
Invented the cotton gin
who is Eli Whitney
Derogatory Republican term for Federalist judges appointed at the last minute by President Adams
What are the "midnight Judges"
Treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain
What is the Adams-onis Treaty
1819 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that states could not interfere with private contracts
What is Dartmouth College v. Woodward
South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification
who is John C. Calhoun
canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River
What is the Erie Canal
Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws
What is Judicial review
limited naval armaments on the Great Lakes
Rush-bagot Agreement
Supreme Court has right to review the decisions of all state supreme courts.
What is Cohens v. Virginia
Democratic-republican congressmen who pressed James Madison to declare war on Britain
What are War Hawks
the use of waterpowered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s
What is the Lowell system
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adams
Who is John Marshall
Treaty that ended the War of 1812 and maintained prewar conditions
What is the Treaty of Ghent
Regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government
What is Gibbons v. Ogden
Jefferson's Vice President; killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
Who is Aaron Burr
an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers
What is the Monroe Doctrine
This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison
A protective tariff designed to help American industries
What is the Tariff of 1816