Supreme Court Cases
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Guaranteed equal opportunity of trade and the sovereignty of the Chinese government.
Open Door Policy
What inspired the temperance movement to begin in the 1830s?
Domestic violence, increase in crime
Required colonists to provide food and housing for British troops.
Quartering Act
Coined the phrase "Gilded Age"
This case determined slaves were property and could be moved to any territory
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Adams-Onis Treaty
Organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Set the rules for achieving territorial status and then statehood. Outlawed slavery in the Old Northwest.
Northwest Ordinance
Founder of the Standard Oil Monopoly
John D. Rockefeller
Re-established the authority of the federal government to fight monopolies under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Northern Securities Co. v. U. S.
Jefferson forbade any American ship to leave port for any foreign nation. Hoped that British trade would be hurt so they would stop violating the neutral rights of the U.S.
Embargo Act
Methods used by William Lloyd Garrison to spread the antislavery message in the United States
The Liberator and the American Anti-Slavery Society
1828 - Increased the import tariff to levels deemed intolerable by the South, which relied on foreign trade.
Tariff of Abominations
1882 immigration act based on nativist sentiment
Chinese Exclusion Act
Extended to the defendant the right of counsel in all state and federal criminal trials, regardless of ability to pay.
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
The Spanish opened the Mississippi River to American traffic, including the right of deposit at the port city of New Orleans. Florida's northern boundary at 31° was established.
Pickney Treaty
Leader of the prison reform movement
Authorized land subsidies and money subsidies for the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
Sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Unanimously declared the New Deal program National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) unconstitutional
Schechter v. U. S.
Kennedy provided $20 million of aid to Latin America.
Alliance for Progress
How did the federal government attempt to hinder the efforts of abolitionists in the United States?
The Gag Rule, it forbade members of Congress from discussing anti-slavery petitions
Said that a majority of those who had been alive to vote in 1860 would have to swear an "ironclad" oath that they were loyal to the federal government, and had never been disloyal.
Wade-Davis Bill
Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.
Pendleton Civil Service Act