Court Cases
Landmark Supreme Court decision in 1803 establishing the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
3rd President of the United States, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Legislative package including five laws concerning the presence and expansion of slavery and the United States, largely proposed by Henry Clay.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Conflict between the US and Mexico over territorial disputes and Texas annexation from 1846 to 1848.
What was the Mexican-American War?
Famous civil rights activists, an educated Black man, social reformer, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Supreme Court case declaring that Congress holds the power to create a national bank and states cannot tax the federal government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Seventh President, military hero from multiple US-Native American conflicts, advocate for the "common man", his political philosophies influenced the Democratic Party.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Legislation prohibiting American ships from trading with any international sources, passed in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Embargo Act?
Conflict between the US and Great Britain about Native American support, impressment of sailors, and trade disagreements.
What is the War of 1812?
Famous civil rights and women's rights activist, author of well-known anti-slavery novel that helped convince some of America of the gravity of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Supreme Court decision declaring that US citizenship granted by the Constitution is not extended to African Americans, meaning African Americans cannot enjoy the same citizenship benefits of America.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Eleventh President, known for massive territorial expansions, reducing tariffs, establishing a national treasury, committing to Manifest Destiny, and acquiring Texas and California.
Who is James K. Polk?
Legislation declaring slavery or involuntary servitude to be illegal, except if it was slavery as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
First major battle of the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory that emphasized that the Civil War would not be an easy victory for the Union.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Outspoken women's rights and suffrage activist, leader in the Seneca Falls Convention, and abolitionist.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
What is Dartmouth College v. Woodward?
5th President, last member of the Virginia Dynasty, known for Doctrine warning against European powers interfering with the Western Hemisphere, involved in the annexation of Florida and westward expansion.
Who is James Monroe?
Part of the Missouri Compromise, this act required slaves to be returned to their owners (even if they were found in a free state), also made the government responsible for aiding in finding/capturing escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Series of three military conflicts between the US and a specific Native American tribe over land, trade, and slavery from 1817 to 1858.
What are the Seminole Wars?
Widely-known abolitionist, journalist, social reformer, women's rights activist, and creator of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator".
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
1824 Supreme Court case establishing that the Supreme Court's power to regulate interstate commerce included the power to regulate navigation, arising from shipping monopolies in New York.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
6th President of the United States, known for vocal opposition of slavery and any expansion along with the annexation of Texas.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Legislation proposed by Stephen Douglas that would repeal the Missouri Compromise, create the Kansas and Nebraska territories, establish the principle of popular sovereignty, and led to the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Conflict between the US and a certain Native American tribe, involved Andrew Jackson, ended in a US victory that forced the tribe to sucede multiple plots of land to the US.
What is the Creek War?
First African American to address the US House of Representatives, civil rights activist, abolitionist, and minister.
Who is Henry Highland Garnet?