SCOTUS Cases
This court case was not an official SCOTUS case as the case is dated back in 1734, however the court case influenced the 1st Amendment. The person in question was tried for libel for accusing the governor of the colony of wrongdoing, the person was found not guilty as the accusations were true.
Who is the John Peter Zenger Trial?
This person’s election in 1860 was the main cause of the Civil War, this person was elected president of the United States without a vote and support from southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Before the start of the Civil War this side was the favorite to win, due to the overwhelming amount of resources(EX: rail tracks, population, etc.) that was available to them.
Who is the North?
This system where the landlords allowed a tenant (former slave) to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop, this was a way for southern landowners to have a cheap labor source.
What is sharecropping?
This president set up the unwritten constitution rule of setting up a cabinet of advisors
Who is George Washington?
In the Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison, Marbury was appointed as a judge by President John Adams at the last minute before leaving office. When the new President, Thomas Jefferson, took office, he told his Secretary of State, James Madison, not to deliver Marbury's appointment notice. Marbury asked the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to force Madison to deliver it. This was the first case that established and used…
What is Judicial Review?
The term that’s used to describe the nation and their differences on the topic of slavery; Loyalty or support of a particular region or section of the nation, rather than the United States as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
In this SCOTUS case it was debated whether a slave had citizenship and rights if they were to cross state lines into free territories and states. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves are still considered property even if they crossed state lines into free territories and states and therefore have no rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The name of this US War Department initiative to help freed slaves with obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and an education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This president believed in a strict interpretation of the US Constitution but changed this belief after the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This amendment was created because of the Gideon v. Wainwright SCOTUS case, it was ruled that any person that is accused of a crime is eligible to have legal counsel no matter if they are poor or rich.
What is the 6th Amendment?
The term used in the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) that allowed people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the ability to vote whether they are a free or slave state, the act also repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This address was delivered after a major battle; the address was a dedication of a national cemetery where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War occurred. Lincoln, who wrote the speech, spoke about human equality and a desire for a new era of freedom and liberty and to preserve the values of the Union.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
After the passage of the 14th Amendment granting citizenship and equal rights and protections under the law, white southerners created these laws that enforced racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
This president is known for his dislike for the National Bank and being known as the Champion of the Common Man
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Supreme Court case discussed your rights in school; Students wanted to protest the US’s involvement in the Vietnam war by wearing black armbands. The school administration told students to remove armbands, students refused and were suspended. SCOTUS ruled in favor of students saying the students still have a right to freedom of speech and protest in school buildings as long as they do not disrupt the school function/day.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines
A series of violent insurrections about the legality of slavery especially in the territories such as Kansas and Nebraska. John Brown, an abolitionist, raided the armory at Harpers Ferry to arm slaves to help them revolt against their masters, the raid was not successful due to slaves being too afraid to help out John Brown.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A proclamation issued by Lincoln that freed the slaves in the rebellious states. This proclamation gave former slaves the ability to join the Union military as a way to help with the war effort
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This SCOTUS case challenged a Louisiana law regarding segregation on railcars, the person is 1/8th black and was arrested for sitting in the white only railcar when refusing to leave. The Supreme Court later reviewed the case and deemed the law went against 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This president established our foreign policy that was named after him, the foreign policy stated that no European power should not interfere with the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and if they did they would be met with immediate action from the US.
Who is James Monroe?
This Supreme Court case not only gave the federal government more power when it came to interstate commerce but it also struck down a monopoly dealing with a steamboat company operating out of NY.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
The following compromise was negotiated and agreed upon by both the North and the South. The North received California being admitted as a free state and the slave trade prohibited in Washington DC; The South was able to negotiate the continuation of slavery in Washington DC and the passage of the Fugative Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This book showed the public the true horrors of slavery; the book showed the daily life of slaves and how they were treated by slave owners, how slaves were bought and sold in slave markets and how slaves and their families were ripped apart.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This person’s plan of Reconstruction gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. Because of this person's plan it allowed southern states to pass laws to restrict freed slaves becoming equal to whites.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This House of Representative member who was also the Speaker of the House earned the nickname the Great Compromiser because of his work with the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?