Important Events
Made slavery illegal.
What is the Abolishment of Slavery?
Right to vote
What is suffrage?
Court case that made the Supreme Court more powerful and able to review laws.
What is the Marbury v. Madison case?
A method of keeping African Americans working on farms for a portion of the crops.
This kept many in debt or at kept them with nothing.
What is Sharecropping?
The event that caused fighting in Nebraska and Kansas. It led to the name "Bleeding Kansas"
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The movement to end slavery
What is Abolition?
This case ruled that the federal government is more powerful than the state government.
What is the McCulloch v. Maryland case?
Laws that kept Colored and White people in separate facilities.
What is Jim Crow laws?
The event that led to the Civil war.
What is Lincoln's election?
Invention that helped cotton production
What is the Cotton Gin?
The case that ruled that as long as the spaces were equal, people could be segregated.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A government agency that supported and helped newly freed African Americans.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
The Union won the war in 1865 after 4 long years.
Belief that the U.S. has the right to expand across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
The case that decided Tribes (Cherokee Nation) are considered "domestic dependent nations". This status made them unable to sue.
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
An Amendment added that gave birthright citizenship.
What is 14th Amendment?
Event that made free and enslaved African Americans unable to sue in court
What is the Dred Scott desicion?
Forced resettlement of Native Tribes westward.
What is the Trail of Tears?
A case that ruled that Georgia's law restricting white people from living on Cherokee land without state permission is unconstitutional. However, President Andrew Jackson did not enforce this, which leads to the Trail of Tears.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Laws that limited African Americans' rights and what they could do shortly after the Civil War ended.
What is Black Codes?