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- True or False - Under Chief Justice Marshall, the Supreme Court issued decisions that weekend the national government
- True or False - In the 1812 court case Gibbons vs Ogden the Supreme Court declared interstate monopolies constitutional and very good for U.S. businesses
- True or False - In 1816 the Supreme Court decided in Martin v. Hunter Lessee, that it had the authority to hear all the authority to hear all appeals from state court decisions in cases involving federal statutes and treaties
- True or False - The phrase "Era of Good Feelings" was used to describe the James Monroe presidency
- In 1823, President Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in which he declared that the American continents were "henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power"
- Between 1816 and 1824, the Supreme Court issued rulings that established the dominance of the states over the Nation
- What general led the Confederates into deadly Union rifle and cannon fire?
- True or False - In the 1819 court case Brown vs Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas) the Supreme Court ruled that a state could not tax a national bank. "Taxing the nation bank was a form of interference and, therefore, unconsititutional
- This supreme court case of 1803, the Supreme Court asserted the power of Judicial Review - the power to decide whether laws passed by congress are constitutional and to strike down those that were not
- True or False - Congress passed the bill of Rights which was designed to protect American manufactures by taxing imports to drive up their prices
- Term used for when political opponents criticize each other's personalities and morals
- At the top of Southern society was this type of person who owned the larger plantations
- True or False - In the Adams - Onis Treaty of 1819, Spain ceded all of Florida to the United States
- True or False - Many Native American groups (Creek) united with runaway slaves to Spanish controlled Florida. These people took a new name for themselves meaning "run away"
- Sectional disputes over slavery and its westward spread eroded our country's spirit that swept the nation after the war of 1812. This was the spirit of what?
- What was created to help the North pay for the war
- At the height of public anger towards France, the Federalists pushed 4 laws through Congress. These laws became known as certain types of Acts. What were they?
- This method of production began in the Northeast, where many steams and rivers could provide mills with water power
- System in which enslaved people were organized into work gangs that labored from sunup to sundown
- This man rose from slavery to become perhaps the most prominent leader of antislavery movement