Supreme Court Cases and one vocab word
Marbury v. Madison established....
Judicial Review
Thomas Jefferson used a "loose interpretation" of the Constitution to justify this purchase.
Louisiana Purchase
Define "suffrage"
The right to vote in an election
Who was the enslaved man that ignited a rebellion in Virginia?
Nat Turner
What president was elected to office that led to the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Define "abolitionism"
Movement to end enslavement immediately and without compensation
Define "impressment"
Removing seamen from U.S. merchant vessels
The Women's Rights Movement developed from what other activist movement occurring in America?
Abolitionist Movement
What did the Missouri Compromise assert?
Missouri entered as an enslaved state, Maine as a free state, and enslavement would be banned North of the 36'30 latitude line in the Louisiana Purchase.
Name two advantages the Union had over the Confederacy during the Civil War.
1) More factories
2) More railroad tracks
3) More States on the Union's side
4) Bigger population
5) More telegraph lines
Define "precedent" in judicial terms
Court decision that is considered the prime example for deciding later cases involving identical or similar facts
The Monroe Doctrine stated what?
President Monroe declared American continents were not to be “subject to further colonization”
This women's rights activist is most notable for her "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
Sojourner Truth
Which compromise stated that California would join the U.S. as a free state and Utah and New Mexico would decide on enslavement based on popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed what?
That all enslaved people living in any rebelling states are free
Dred Scott decision
1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that Dred Scott and his family were not free from enslavement despite travelling in a state that banned enslavement and declared African Americans were not citizens
Federalist party ended
American nationalism rises
Andrew Jackson rises to prominence
Era of Good Feelings
America becomes a globally recognized nation
The Seneca Falls Convention produced this document....
Declaration of Sentiments
The Kansas-Nebraska Act....
repealed the Missouri Compromise, divided Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska and left new territories to decide the issue of enslavement using voting
What speech is the following quote from and who spoke it?
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure."
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
McCulloch v. Maryland established....
The "necessary and proper" clause and the federal government has power over state governments
What country did the United States want to expand into, which was one of the causes of the War of 1812?
Canada!!
Why was the "Ain't I a Woman" speech by Sojourner Truth rewritten twelve years later?
Civil War was going on and needed support for the Union
How did the cotton gin and manifest destiny contribute to the expansion of enslavement?
Cotton became more valuable with the invention of the cotton gin and industrialization in England, leading the demand for enslaved labor to increase in the South
Which two Union generals ended the war and how?
General Grant led troops to Lee’s troops in Virginia
General Sherman sent to invade Georgia and take Atlanta
Sherman developed the philosophy and tactics of hard war - treated civilians as combatants