Compromises
Crises
People
SCOTUS
Big Deals
100

This was the compromise that permitted the creation of the First Bank of the U.S.

Washington D.C. would be built in the south.

100

This 1794 tax revolt established federal power t enforce federal laws within states.

Whiskey Rebellion

100

The Alien and Sedition Acts were during his presidency.

John Adams

100

The Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison affirmed this principle.

The Court may find an act of Congress unconstitutional.

100

This doubled the size of the U.S.

The Louisiana Purchase

200

This compromise admitted Maine into the Union as a free state.

Missouri Compromise

200

This was the reason why the U.S. decided to stay out of the French Revolution.

The U.S. was too weak militarily and economically to participate.

200

He became an American hero after the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

Andrew Jackson

200

He was the Chief Justice whose decisions in Marbury, Gibbons and McCulloch affirmed nationalism.

John Marshall

200

This treaty acquired Florida for the U.S.

Adams-Onis Treaty

300

The compromise by which America agreed to keep its hands off Florida in return for being allowed to navigate the Mississippi became the terms of this 1795 treaty.

Pinckney Treaty

300

"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." This became a slogan in America because of this crisis.

The XYZ Affair

300

He negotiated the Missouri Compromise.

Henry Clay

300

Andrew Jackson expressed contempt for checks and balances by refusing to enforce this Supreme Court case.

Worcester v. GA

300

This was the greatest scientific expedition of the 19th century. 

Lewis and Clark Expedition

400

British supplying Indians with weapons to use against Americans resulted finally in this 1794 treaty.

Jay Treaty 

400

The VA and KY Resolutions were a part of a crisis arising over these laws.

The Alien and Sedition Acts

400

His invention extended and entrenched slavery.

Eli Whitney

400

According to the Constitution, presidential elections are decided here if no candidate has a majority in the Electoral College.

House of Representatives

400

This created a waterway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Erie Canal

500

Maintaining an equal number of free and slave states was an objective of this compromise.

Missouri Compromise

500

This 1807 act caused the worst economic crisis in U.S. history up to that point.

Embargo Act

500

He was the president who initiated the Spoils System.

Andrew Jackson

500

The case of Worcester for GA arose in response to this act of the Jackson administration.

Indian Removal Act

500

This policy kept Europeans from colonizing anywhere in the western hemisphere.

Monroe Doctrine

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