Presidential Action
Case Law
The Articles
Civil War/Reconstruction
Compact Theory
100

In this speech, Lincoln claims the war is God's judgement on the North and South for the sin of slavery.

Second Inaugural 

100

What specific right was Korematsu arguing was stripped from him?

Due Process

100

Another name for the Necessary and Proper Clause

The Elastic Clause
100

How Lincoln defended the Emancipation Proclamation

Commander-in-Chief Clause

100

What amendment did the Sedition Acts arguably violate?

1st Amendment

200

Give an example of an act of Statesmanship

Many...

200

The ruling in McCulloch VS Maryland defined the meaning of a specific Constitutional clause.

Necessary and Proper Clause

200

Which branch correlates to which article?

Article 1: Legislative

Article 2: Executive

Article 3: Judicial


200

These got rid of existing governments in the South and established military zones.

Reconstruction Acts

200

Jefferson's response to the Alien and Sedition Acts

Kentucky Resolution

300

Jefferson justified the Louisiana Purchase with this

Laws of Necessity

300

This case cemented federal supremacy

McCulloch vs Maryland

300

This institution's power is limited through its Vesting Clause

Legislative

300

The 14th Amendment undid which court case?

Dred Scott v Sandford

300

What major federal action/event prompted South Carolina to secede?

The election of Lincoln.

400

Why did Helvidius oppose the Neutrality Proclamation?

Power to declare war (and neutrality) lies with Congress.

400

What did the Dred Scott v Sandford ruling effectively overturn?

The MO Compromise

400

The name for the first 10 amendments

Bill of Rights

400

The "Knell of the Union".

Missouri Compromise

400

Place secession, compact theory, and nullification in chronological order of their historical emergence as political arguments. 

Compact Theory -> Nullification -> Secession

500

Here, secession is called anarchy

Lincoln's First Inaugural 

500

Explain the two-part ruling of McCulloch v. Maryland regarding both the national bank and the state tax.

The Federal Government had the power to create a National Bank to do what is "necessary and proper"

States could not tax Federal institution (supremacy clause)

500

Article 5 outlines...

The Amendment Process

500

Why did Lincoln give the rebelling states 100 days notice in the Emancipation?

To give them a chance to return to the Union.

500

Why is it disingenuous for the South to claim they are the protectors of the rights of the people?

Rights of which people?