Supreme Court
Constitutional Principles
Treaties and Doctrines
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100

This Supreme Court power was established in the Marbury V Madison Case.

What is judicial review?

100

This is the constitutional principle that the US has a system where power is divided and shared between a central (federal) government and regional (state) governments, with each level having its own sphere of authority under a written constitution. 

What is Federalism?

100

This is the identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment (harm) of the interests of other nations. 

Nationalism

100

This term means to withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. 

What is secede?

100

This is the term for rewarding campaign supporters with government positions.

What is the Spoils System

200

This Supreme Court case expanded the scope of federal powers by ruling that implied powers were constitutional.

What is McCulloch V Madison?

200
This is the constitutional principle that divides the power of governing into three separate branches so that one does not gain too much power and become tyrannical. 

What is Separation of Powers?

200

This isolationist doctrine claims the Western Hemisphere is under the sphere of influence of the United States.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

200

The first time Andrew Jackson ran for president he won the popular vote, but with no majority in the electoral college the decision went to the House of Representatives. When Henry Clay supported JQ Adams, Jackson and his supporters called the election of JQA this.

What is the "Corrupt Bargain?

200

State-chartered banks favored by President Andrew Jackson during the 1830s to receive federal funds after the withdrawal from the Bank of the United States (BUS).

Pet Banks

300

This is the nickname of the "Necessary and Proper Clause.

What is the Elastic Clause

300

This constitutional principle is reflected in the Marbury V Madison case in which one branch of government limits the power of the other branches.

What is Checks and Balances?

300

This treaty ended the war of 1812 with borders at pre-war boundaries.

What is the Treaty of Ghent?

300

JQA and Henry Clay had a very similar vision for the economic growth of the United States.  This was the name of Clay's plan of 1. Protective Tariffs 2. Internal infrastructure improvements 3. Support for a National Bank of the US.

What is The American System? (aka Clay's American System)
300

The forced westward removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes",  especially the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the 1830s and 1840s. The U.S. government forcibly marched tens of thousands of Native Americans, resulting in the deaths of thousands from disease, starvation, and exposure.

What is the Trail of Tears?

400

This Supreme Court decision would expand the federal government's authority in regulating trade.

What is Gibbons V Ogden?

400

This enlightenment philosopher advocated separating the powers of governing between three branches in order to protect against tyranny.

Who is Montesquieu?

400

The belief in this doctrine lead to South Carolina to threaten to withdraw from the United States over the Tariff of Abominations (the Tariff of 1828) and the subsequent Tariff of 1832 stating its belief that the tariff was designed to protect Northern manufacturing to the detriment of SC's economy.

What is the Nullification Doctrine?

400

This was a 1833 Congressional act authorizing President Andrew Jackson to use military force to compel South Carolina to comply with federal tariff laws, which the state had declared null and void during the Nullification Crisis.

What is the Force Bill?

400

In this Supreme Court Case, the court struck down Georgia's extension laws. In the majority opinion Marshall wrote that the Indian nations were “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights” and that the United States had acknowledged as much in several treaties with the Cherokees.

What is Worcester V Georgia?

500

This constitutional statement was used to settle the dispute between Gibbons V Ogden reinforcing and expanding the federal government's authority in regulating interstate trade to include traveling between the states.

What is the Commerce Clause?

500

This is the constitutional principle that restricts a government's power and authority, ensuring it can only exercise powers delegated to it by a constitution or by the people themselves.

What is Limited Government?

500

This 1819 treaty was an agreement between the United States and Spain that ceded East and West Florida to the U.S. and resolved disputes over the western boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, establishing a boundary line that reached the Pacific Ocean. 

What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?

500

This is the term meaning to become part of a different group or culture by adopting its customs, attitudes, and language.

What is assimilate?

500

A derisive nickname given to an informal group of close friends and political advisors who counseled President Andrew Jackson in the first years of his presidency.

What is the Kitchen Cabinet?

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