Supreme Court Decisions
This Supreme Court power gives the Judicial Branch the ability to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is Judicial Review?
This amendment grants equality to all people in the US, and ensures that people born in the US are automatically citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This conflict was fought between the Northern and Southern United States over the issues of slavery, sectionalism and states' rights.
What is the American Civil War?
This forced migration, created by Andrew Jackson, forced many indigenous Americans off their land and into the uninhabited western part of the country. Over 16,000 Indigenous Americans died during the migration.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This specific crop was the economic centerpiece of the American economy for the first half of US History.
What is Cotton?
This Supreme Court Decision created the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These laws, created by the Southern States following the Reconstruction period, saw the segregation of people of color and whites across the country.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This war led to the 3rd largest annexation of land in US history, including Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, among other states.
What is the Mexican American War?
The largest annexation of land in US History.
This was created by Alexander Hamilton to help pay off the national debt from the American Revolution.
What is the national bank?
This Supreme Court decision, often called the worst decision in the court's history, took away the right to citizenship for Black Americans, and legalized slavery everywhere in the US.
What is the Dred Scott Decision
OR
Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The movement to end slavery.
What is Abolition?
This extreme action taken by South Carolina was one of the main causes of the US going to war in 1861.
What is secession?
What is The Whiskey Rebellion?
This geographical region of the country represents the agricultural and food-producing heartland of the United States.
What are The Great Plains?
This Supreme Court decision authorized the use of Jim Crow Laws under the doctrine "Separate, but Equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This time period following the Civil War promised to reunite the country and grant equality to Black Americans.
What is Reconstruction?
This motto summarized the American colonists' anger towards the British during The American Revolution.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
This was the foreign policy most directly promoted by George Washington, especially in his Farewell Address.
What is Neutrality?
This is a federal action where the government bans trade with another country.
What is an embargo?
The Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland legitimized these powers to the federal government to take actions not granted to them in the Constitution.
What are Implied Powers?
This organization, created after the Civil War, was created to create jobs and opportunities for newly freed slaves.
What is The Freedman's Bureau?
This war was fought between Britain and the United States over the impressment of American sailors into the British navy and the American desire to invade Canada.
What is The War of 1812?
This moment of conflict occurred when Andrew Jackson threatened the use of force after the state of South Carolina attempted to undo federal tariffs and threatened to secede.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The economic system used during the Colonial Period by Britain to control the colonies.
What is Mercantilism?