establishes the right to Judicial Review by the Supreme Court; right to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking; moved from IL to UT. Believed that Americans were descendants of Hebrew peoples who migrated here and became ancestors of the Native Americans.
What are Mormons?
100
It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
As president he opposed the Bank of US, did not allow individual states to nullify federal laws, was responsible for the Indian Removal Act, the "Trail of Tears". Created Spoils System
Who was Andrew Jackson?
100
Connected the Western frontier to the other cities in the US; influenced trade, and stimulated the mining of coal for fuel and manufacturing of iron for materials to build trains.
What are railroads?
200
Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
200
Settlers who claimed unoccupied lands and created farms for themselves.
What were squatters?
200
Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
200
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit a message via a wire; use of Morse Code (a series of dots and dashes representing letters of the alphabet). Allowed people to communicate ideas and the price of goods across the country.
What is the telegraph?
300
1819 New Hampshire had attempted to take over Dartmouth College by revising its colonial charter. The Court ruled that the charter was protected under the contract clause of the U. S. Constitution; upholds the sanctity of contracts.
What is Dartmouth College v. Woodward?
300
Unmarried women from New England cities who went to work in mills where they lived in boarding houses and were supervised very closely.
What were Mill Girls?
300
Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
A Shawnee chief who, along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, a religious leader known as The Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes.
Who was Tecumseh?
300
Boats that could easily paddle upstream, became vital part of America's transportation system.
What is the steamboat?
400
Supreme Court refused to hear a suit filed by the Cherokee Nation against a Georgia law abolishing tribal legislature. Court said Indians were not foreign nations, and U.S. had broad powers over tribes but a responsibility for their welfare.
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
400
This was the group of people who persuaded Madison to ask Congress for a declaration of war.
What were War Hawks?
400
This law was intended to protect American ships from the impressment of foreign forces, but ended up simply decimating the economies of port cities and reminded many Americans of the British Navigation Acts.
What is the Embargo Act?
400
American slave leader, he claimed that divine inspiration had led him to end the slavery system.
Who was Nat Turner?
400
Parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. These parts helped with the creation of advanced weapons, agricultural machinery, and were extremely crucial to the famous assembly line.
What is interchangeable parts?
500
Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law-"THE POWER TO TAX IS THE POWER TO DESTROY".
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
500
Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign.
What was the Know Nothing Party?
500
Allowed Americans to carry on trade with all nations except Britain and France.
What is the Nonintercourse Act?
500
"Father of the Factory System" in America; escaped Britain with the memorized plans for the textile machinery; put into operation the first spinning cotton thread in 1791.
Who was Samuel Slater?
500
Created on highways built by private companies to generate profit but were heavily avoided by Americans.