Court Cases
This court decision established the principle of Judicial Review and expanded the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive actions as unconstitutional, otherwise known as judicial review.
Marbury v Madison (1803)
This is the reason why most tribes in the Americas are unique in language, culture and society. Tribes may have been similar, but _______________ created their unique environment.
Geography
Economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country and use those resources for one-sided trade
Mercantilism
Law aimed at preventing hostilities between colonists and Natives, it was mostly ignored.
Proclamation Line of 1763
Statement to warn Americans against the danger of political parties, to remain neutral in foreign conflicts
This court ruling overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal" and stated that schools should integrate with all deliberate speed.
Brown v Board of Education (1954)
Most natives in the Americas perished from diseases as a result of this event.
Columbian Exchange
Delaware, New York, and New Jersey, were founded as trade centers, while Pennsylvania was founded as a safe haven for Quakers. The Middle colonies were also called the _____________________ because of their fertile soil, ideal for farming.
Breadbasket
Document written in response to the Stamp Act in which a colony claimed that in accordance with long established British law, the colony was subject to taxation only by a parliamentary assembly to which colonists themselves elected representatives.
Virginia Resolves
A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787 that was a leading cause for the need to pass a new constitution.
Shay's Rebellion
President Nixon refused to turn over the recordings during the Watergate investigation, asserting executive privilege. The Supreme Court ruled that the defendants' right to potentially exculpating evidence outweighed the President's right to executive privilege if national security was not compromised.
U.S. v Nixon
Location of tribes like the Lakota Sioux, Apache and Comanche. They were known for their horse-warrior culture and hunted buffalo in this area.
Great Plains
The unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade
Salutary Neglect
Writing in clear and persuasive prose, this pamphlet collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
Passed to ease concerns about an overly powerful federal government.
Bill of Rights
Supreme Court ruled that wearing anti-war armband by students is protected by the First Amendment.
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Wampanoag leader who led an native-American uprising against colonizers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island for 13 years. This event was known as King Phillip's War.
Metacom
Armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by an indentured servant against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.
Bacon's Rebellion
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts / Coercive Acts
Document that established a new government of the United States that helped to create a national identity but failed because it could not enforce taxation and had no executive or legislative branches.
Articles of Confederation
Gideon was accused of committing a felony. Being indigent, he petitioned the judge to provide him with an attorney free of charge. The judge denied his request. The Supreme Court ruled for Gideon, saying that the Sixth Amendment requires indigent criminal defendants to be provided an attorney free of charge.
Gideon v Wainwright (1963)
Final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between tribes in the Northwestern Confederacy and the British, against the United States for control of the Northwest Territory in 1794.
Battle of Fallen Timbers
This event influenced how people thought about seditious libel and freedom of the press and led, many decades later, to the protections embodied in the Unites States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Sedition Act of 1798.
Peter Zenger Trial
The last of a series of conflicts between England in France for dominion over North America beginning in 1754.
French and Indian War
Women were seen as essential to civic life but still excluded from political activity.
Republican Motherhood