Major Court Cases
Write a summary of each court case. Why was the ruling on each case important?
Each summary is worth 5 points Total of (90 points)
1. 1803 Marbury v. Madison[judicial review]
2. 1810 Fletcher v. Peck [contracts & state laws]
3. 1816 Martin v. Hunters Lessee [federal appellate over state courts]
4. 1816, Dartmouth College v. Woodward [contracts]
5. 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland [national bank, the elastic clause, & federal-state
relations]
6. 1824 Cohens v. Virginia federal juristiction over state cases involving federal rights]
7. 1824 Gibbons v. Ogden [monopolies & federal control of interstate commerce]
8. 1837 Charles River Bridge v. Warren [contracts & community rights]
9. 1842 Commonwealth v. Hunt [labor unions & right to organize]
10. 1850 Ableman v. Booth [fugitive slave laws]
11. 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford Dred [slavery]
12. 1861 Ex Parte Merryman [writ of habeas corpus, executive war powers civilian due
process]
13. 1870 Hepburn v. Griswold
14. 1871 Knox v. Lee
15. 1871 Parker v. Davis
[legal federal monetary powers]
16. 1873 Slaughterhouse cases [privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment]
17. 1875 Minor v. Happensett [suffrage for women]
18. 1877 Munn v. Illinois [state regulation of business]
Study the following Essay questions. These are DBQ’s that will be posted online. You will be
able to download the DBQ packets to answer the questions. Each essay will be worth 100pts
each.
Possible Essay Question (Part I) Essay number one will be posted Monday
December 17th early in the morning. You will have until Dec. 18th (Midnight) to
answer the question and email to me. Anything late will be deducted 30% for
first day and then 50% the next after that it will be considered missing.
1. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Certainly he
saw himself as a hero, and many others saw him that way also. How do you
see him and his impact on the United States?
2. America's war with Mexico has been labeled, both then and since, an
unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression and territorial
aggrandizement. Using the documents as well as your knowledge of the
diplomatic history of the years from 1836 to 1846, evaluate this assertion.
3. To what extent did the “Era of Good Feelings” (1816-1824) mark the
appearance of issues that transformed the nature of American politics in the
next thirty years."
4. "What factors led to the women's rights movement in this era and what goals
were women seeking?"
5. To what extent was the decision of the Jackson administration to remove the
Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830's was
more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the
1790's than a change in that policy?
6. Using your knowledge of the time period 1820-1850, assess the validity of the
following statement. Although the Great Triumvirate worked for years to hold
the Union together, their actions and political ideas lead to the downfall of the
Union.
Possible essay questions (Part II) December 27th Due the 28th by midnight.
1. What were the economic, social, and political motives for the creation and
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maintenance of slavery in America? Discuss these issues at some significant length
and be sure to touch upon all facets of slavery-racial, gender, and child slavery.
In what ways are the issues that led to the Civil War similar to those that led to the
American War for Independence?
Discuss the elements of causation for the American Civil War from 1820-1861?
What were the key factors that convinced the South that it could not obtain justice
within the American Union?
Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has acted as a partisan political body,
rather than a neutral arbiter of constitutional principles. Assess the validity of this
generalization for the period 1810-1860.
The Civil War was not inevitable; it was the result of extremism and failures of
leadership on both sides." Assess this statement, using the following documents and
your knowledge of the period from 1830 to 1860.
For the Following Presidents, you need to write five (5) important facts that
occurred during (10pts) each total = 160 pts
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George Washington (1789-1797)
John Adams (1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
James Madison (1809-1817)
ames Monroe (1817-1825)
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
William H. Harrison (1841)
John Tyler (1841-1845)
James K. Polk (1841-1849)
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
CHAPTER 18: RENEWING THE SECTIONAL STRUGGLE
1. What did national parties often do to maintain national unity in regards to the slavery issue?
2. What was the impact of the Mexican War on the slavery issue?
3. What were the beliefs of the Free Soil Party?
4. What event brought turmoil to the presidency of Zachary Taylor?
5. What type of people went to California?
6. Why did the Free Soilers condemn slavery?
7. Who was Harriet Tubman? What did she do?
8. What was Calhoun's plan to protect the South?
9. What was Webster's "Seventh of March" speech? Impact?
10. What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850? Reaction from the North and the South?
11. What happened in Nicaragua in the 1850s?
12. What Caribbean island did many Southerners want to acquire? Why?
13. What was the Ostend Manifesto?
14. How was slavery impacted by the push for a transcontinental railroad?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Free-Soil Party
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Compromise 1850
Ostend manifesto
Henry Clay
Zachary Taylor
John C. Calhoun
Winfield Scott
Matthew C. Perry
Lewis Cass
Stephen Douglas
Franklin Pierce
CHAPTER 19: DRIFTING TOWARDS DISUNION, 1854-1861
1. What was described in Uncle Tom's Cabin? Impact domestically? Impact abroad?
2. What was bleeding Kansas? Why did this occur? What were the major events of "Bleeding
Kansas?"
3. What was the Lecompton Constitution?
4. What did Buchanan decide in regards to the Lecompton Constitution?
5. What was the main platform idea of the Know-Nothings?
6. Why did the Republicans lose the election in 1856?
7. What caused the Panic of 1857? Impact?
8. What were the major points of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
9. What was the goal of Harper's raid on Harper's Ferry? What was the South's reaction to
Harper's Ferry?
10. What was the Crittenden Compromise?
11. Why did the Southern states secede from the Union?
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Freeport Doctrine
Harper's Ferry Raid
Constitutional Union Party
American Know Nothing Party
Panic of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debate 1858
The Impending Crisis of the South
Bleeding Kansas
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Roger Taney
John Breckinridge
John Bell
Abraham Lincoln
John Crittenden
Hinton Helper 1875
John Brown
Charles Sumner
Dred Scott
Possible Essay Topics for Chapters 14 to 19:
1. Analyze the ways in which supporters of slavery in the nineteenth century used legal,
religious, and economic arguments to defend the institution of slavery.
2. Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of
slavery in the context of TWO of the following:
 Missouri Compromise
 Mexican War
 Compromise of 1850
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
3. Discuss the impact of territorial expansion on national unity between 1800 and
1850.
4. In what ways did transportation bring about economic and social change in the US in the
period 1820 to 1860.
1. Analyze the effectiveness of political compromise in reducing sectional tensions in the
period 1820 to 1861.
6. Evaluate three of the following events and the role they played in the period before the
Civil War
 Missouri Compromise of 1820
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Dred Scott Case
 John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry
7. Assess how Manifest Destiny in Combination with the slavery issue contributed to
session and the Civil War
8. Some historians argue that slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War. Explain to
what extent you agree with this. (time period: 1846-1860)
9. The role and place of women in American society changed markedly between 1800 and
1860. Analyze the extent to which social, economic and political opportunities opened for
women in the antebellum era.
10. Identify and evaluate the impact upon American society of any two reform movements
which emerged from the ferment of the Second Great Awakening
CHAPTER 20: GIRDING FOR WAR: THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, 1861-1865
1. Why did European powers favor war in America?
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How did Lincoln approach the Ft. Sumter crisis? What action did he finally take?
What action did Lincoln take to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union?
What was the original goal in the war as stated by Lincoln?
What side did the Indians tend to side with?
What advantages did the South possess? Disadvantages? What advantages did the North
possess? Disadvantages?
7. Why did the British refuse to break the Union blockade?
8. What event nearly pushed the Union and the British to war?
9. What actions did France take during the Civil War?
10. How did the concept of states' rights impact the Southern war effort?
11. How did the different presidents run their nations during the war?
12. How did the North get their troops? South?
13. What was the impact of the war on the Northern economy? Southern economy?
14. How did the North and the South pay for the Civil War?
Key Terms (12 pts)
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1. William Seward
2. Edwin M. Stanton
3. Trent Affair
4. Robert E. Lee
5. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
6. Ulysses Simpson Grant
7. Jefferson Davis
8. George B. McClellan
9. William Tecumseh Sherman
10. Merrimack –
11. Monitor
12. Thirteenth Amendment
CHAPTER 21: THE FURNACE OF CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
1. What was the impact of the Peninsula campaign? How did it change Union goals?
2. What was the Anaconda Plan?
3. What were the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation? Was it constitutional?
4. What legally abolished slavery in the United States?
5. What was the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on the war effort?
6. Did blacks served in the war effort? To what extent?
7. Why did Lee attempt to invade the North? Impact of Gettysburg?
8. What was the importance of Vicksburg? Sherman's style of warfare?
9. Who were the Copperheads? What was the Union party in 1864?
10. Who was the Democratic candidate in 1864? Republican/Union Party? Who won and why?
11. What was Grant's strategy to end the war?
12. What were the terms to end the war? What was the impact of the war?
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Charles Frances Adams
Clement L. Vallandigham –
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes Booth
C.S.S. Alabama
Fenians
National Banking Act
Union Party
CHAPTER 22: THE ORDEAL OF RECONSTRUCTION
1. What was the fate of the Confederate leaders after the Civil War?
2. What was the state of the postwar economy in the South?
3. What did emancipation mean to Southern blacks?
4. What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
5. What was the Freedman's Bureau? Accomplishments?
6. Why was Andrew Johnson included on the Republican ticket in 1864?
7. What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
8. What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
9. What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
10. What were the black codes? Purpose?
11. How did the North view the black codes?
12. Why did many Republicans have a problem with the South regaining full rights?
13. What was Congressional Reconstruction?
14. What was the Fourteenth Amendment?
15. What was the basis of the battle between Johnson and Congress?
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Who were scalawags and carpetbaggers?
What were the accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction state governments?
What was the Ku Klux Klan? What did they do?
Why was Johnson impeached?
What did Seward buy in 1867?
Why was Johnson acquitted in his impeachment trial?
Was Reconstruction effective?
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Oliver O. Howard
Andrew Johnson
Alexander Stephens
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
William Seward
Freedman's Bureau
10% Plan
Moderate vs. Radical Republicans
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Civil Rights Act
Fourteenth Amendment
Military Reconstruction Act
Fifteenth Amendment
Amendment.
Scalawags.
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts
Tenure of Office
Grades for EVERYTHING:
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Court Cases:
DBQ Essays:
President Summaries
Chapter 18
a. Notes b. Key Terms
c. Questions
Chapter 19
a. Notesb. Key Termsc. Questions
Chapter 20
a. Notes
b. Key Terms
c. Questions
Chapter 21
a. Notes
b. Key Terms
c. Questions
Chapter 22
a. Notes
b. Key Terms
c. Questions
Total
90pts
200pts
160pts
25pts
14pts
28pts
25pts
17pts
22pts.
25pts
12pts
28pts
25pts
8pts
24pts
25pts
21pts
46pts
795pts