American History 1 Review: Supreme Court Cases KEY
Directions: Cut out the explanations of the court cases and glue them with their case.
Marbury v. Madison
Gibbons v. Ogden
This case started out as a dispute over a job and ended up with
the Supreme Court declaring an action of Congress
unconstitutional for the first time in history and solidifying
their power of judicial review.
This case was over a license to operate a steamboat service on
various stretches of rivers between states. The Supreme Court
ruled only the federal government has the power to regulate
interstate commerce, not states.
McCulloch v. Maryland
US v. Reese
This case concerned a branch of the Bank of the United States
that was in the state of Maryland. Maryland decided that it
should tax the branch of the US Bank. The Supreme Court
ruled that Maryland did not have the right to tax the Bank as it
interfered with authority of Congress.
Ruled the Fifteenth Amendment did not give the right to vote
to anyone just the conditions in which the states could not
deny suffrage so it did nothing to punish officials that had
prevented African-Americans from voting
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Worcester v. Georgia
In this case the state of New Hampshire wanted to change a
college from being private to public. The King of England
originally established the school with its trustees. The
Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot pass laws that
interfere with an existing contract.
In this case the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee were a
distinct nation and as such Georgia could not regulate them
nor could Georgia take their land. This ruling had little impact
and in 1838 20,000 Cherokee were forcibly removed in what is
known as the Trail of Tears.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
This case involved a slave trying to gain his freedom after living
in a free state. The Supreme Court ruled that because the
person was a slave they had no right to have their case heard
in court. This case basically okayed the institution of slavery.
In this case Native Americans appealed to the Supreme Court
to allow them to keep Cherokee land. The Supreme Court said
they could not hear the case because the Cherokee were not a
foreign nation or a state but were a “domestic dependent
nation.”
Slaughterhouse Cases
US v. Cruikshank
The Fourteenth Amendment only protected rights given by the
federal government not rights obtained through citizenship in
a state.
The Fourteenth Amendment did not give the federal
government the right to punish whites that violated the rights
of blacks.
American History 1 Review: Supreme Court Cases
Directions: Cut out the explanations of the court cases and glue them with their case.
Marbury v. Madison
Gibbons v. Ogden
McCulloch v. Maryland
US v. Reese
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Worcester v. Georgia
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Slaughterhouse Cases
US v. Cruikshank
The Fourteenth Amendment only protected rights
given by the federal government not rights
obtained through citizenship in a state.
In this case the Supreme Court ruled that the
Cherokee were a distinct nation and as such
Georgia could not regulate them nor could
Georgia take their land. This ruling had little
impact and in 1838 20,000 Cherokee were forcibly
removed in what is known as the Trail of Tears.
The Fourteenth Amendment did not give the
federal government the right to punish whites
that violated the rights of blacks.
This case involved a slave trying to gain his
freedom after living in a free state. The Supreme
Court ruled that because the person was a slave
they had no right to have their case heard in
court. This case basically okayed the institution of
slavery.
This case started out as a dispute over a job and
ended up with the Supreme Court declaring an
action of Congress unconstitutional for the first
time in history and solidifying their power of
judicial review.
In this case the state of New Hampshire wanted
to change a college from being private to public.
The King of England originally established the
school with its trustees. The Supreme Court ruled
that a state cannot pass laws that interfere with
an existing contract.
In this case Native Americans appealed to the
Supreme Court to allow them to keep Cherokee
land. The Supreme Court said they could not hear
the case because the Cherokee were not a foreign
nation or a state but were a “domestic dependent
nation.”
This case was over a license to operate a
steamboat service on various stretches of rivers
between states. The Supreme Court ruled only the
federal government has the power to regulate
interstate commerce, not states.
Ruled the Fifteenth Amendment did not give the
right to vote to anyone just the conditions in
which the states could not deny suffrage so it did
nothing to punish officials that had prevented
African-Americans from voting.
This case concerned a branch of the Bank of the
United States that was in the state of Maryland.
Maryland decided that it should tax the branch of
the US Bank. The Supreme Court ruled that
Maryland did not have the right to tax the Bank as
it interfered with authority of Congress.