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Supreme Court Cases
Events Leading to War
The American Civil War
Reconstruction
Misc.
100
Established the precedence of judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This man led the Union forces at the end of the war and later served as President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
These amendments were added to the Constitution as a result of Reconstruction.
What is the 13-15 amendment?
100
This is the practice of awarding political supporters with jobs in the government.
What is the Spoils System?
200
Dealt with interstate commerce and the federal governments ability to regulate it.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
200
The election of this man led to the immediate secession of South Carolina and several other states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This man was the military leader of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
Both Lincoln and Johnson's plans for Reconstruction wanted to do this to the Southern states.
What is readmit with little restriction?
200
The Indian Removal Act resulted in this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
Dealt with the supremacy of the national bank.
What is McCulloch vs. Mayland?
300
The raid of John Brown was in this location.
What is Harper's Ferry?
300
The most northern battle field in the American Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
300
These were laws made in order to suppress the rights of free African Americans.
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
This book was part of the negative view of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Ruled that segregation was legal, as long as it was "separate but equal."
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
The primary goal of Abraham Lincoln.
What is preserve the Union?
400
Burned Atlanta to the ground and promised to make "Georgia Howl."
Who is William T. Sherman?
400
This man was impeached for political reasons - not for committing an actual crime.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
The reason the North developed factories and the South relied heavily on slavery and the plantation system.
What are geographic conditions?
500
Ruled that African Americans were not, and cannot be citizens.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
500
This concept was present in the Kansas-Nebraska act - this is why so many people moved there.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The single bloodiest day in the American Civil War.
What is Antietam?
500
The poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause were all used to do this.
What is suppress the voting rights of African Americans? What is limit the effectiveness of the 14th and 15th amendments?
500
The election of this man helped to end Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?