Supreme Court Cases
Antebellum Period
___ 1. Marbury vs. Madison – 1803
___ 2. Fletcher vs. Peck – 1810
___ 3. McCulloch vs. Maryland – 1819
___ 4. Dartmouth vs. Woodward – 1819
___ 5. Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia – 1833
___ 6. Charles River Bridge Case – 1837
___ 7. Dred Scott case – 1857
A. Missouri Comp. unconstitutional/Congre
cannot legislate slavery
B. Indian removal case
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C. 1 decision to declare a law
unconstitutional
D. Contracts are valid – States cannot void
E. “power to tax is the power to destroy”
F. state laws cannot impair contracts even if
They were created through bribery
G. Government can create a company to
compete with private companies if it is in the
interest of the community
Industrialization Period – World War II
___ 8. Ex Parte Milligan -1866
___ 9. Munn vs. Illinois – 1877
___ 9ª. Wabash case – 1886
___ 10. Slaughterhouse cases
___ 10. in re Debs – 1895
___ 11. US vs. E.C. Knight - 1895
___ 11a. Charles River Bridge
A. States can regulate train rates
B. Court injunctions can be used to stop
strikes
C. Louisiana’s monopoly of butchering
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was constitutional/not violating 14 amend.
D. Granger laws are unconstitutional –
Congress controls interstate trade
E. Sugar manufacturing co. (98% of sugar
industry) did not violate Sherman anti-trust
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F. Military courts cannot be used when civilian courts are open violates 14
G. State can make a company that competes with private businesses when it is in
The community’s interest.
___ 12. Plessey v. Ferguson – 1896
A.Invalidated a state law est. a 10hour
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___ 13. Lochner vs. NY – 1905
work day for Bakers (violates cos 14 )
___ 14. Muller vs. Oregon – 1908
B. Women can receive special protection
___ 15. Hammer vs. Daggenhart – 1918
in working environments (paternalistic)
___ 16. Schenck case – 1919
C. Now that women have vote, no need
___ 17. Adkins vs. Children’s Hospital for special work protection
___ 18. Schechter vs. US – 1935
D. separate but equal constitutional
___ 19 Korematsu vs. US – 1944
E. AAA (parts are unconstitutional) –
Legislature cannot give power to executive
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F. 1 amendment – freedom of speech can be
revoked if “clear and present” danger
G. Japanese internment in WWII was
constitutional – communal good exceeds
individual rights.
H. Keating-Owens Child Labor law is
unconstitutional
Post-World War I
Warren Court – “judicial activism”
___ 20. Brown vs. Board – 1954 ___ 21. Mapp vs. US – 1961
___ 22. Engel vs. Vitale ___ 23. Escobido Case – 1964
___ 24. Miranda vs. Arizona – 1966
___ 25. Bakke Case – 1978
A. reverse discrimination case
B. mandatory school prayer is not valid
C. Accused must have rights read to them
D. Established “ inadmissible evidence”
concept.
E. right to have a lawyer even if cannot afford one
F. separate but equal is inherently unequal
Amendments –
Reconstruction Amendments (1865-1870)
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___ 13 Amendment - ___________________________________________
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___ 14 Amendment - ___________________________________________
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___ 15 Amenment - ____________________________________________
Progressive Amendments:
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___ 16 Amendment - ____________________________________________
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___ 17 Amendment - ____________________________________________
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___ 18 Amendment - ____________________________________________
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___ 19 Amendment - ____________________________________________
Presidents –
___ Washington
___ Adams
___ Jefferson
___ Madison
___ Monroe
A. Louisiana Purchase/Embargo Act
B. Quasi-War with France
C. Era of Good Feelings
D. War of 1812
E. Neutrality Proclamation/ Jays Treaty
___ JQ Adams
A. Whig – Log-Cabin/Hard Cider Campaign
___ Andrew Jackson
B. President without a Party (against Unspoken
___ Martin Van Buren Platform
___ Wm. Henry Harrison
C. Panic of 1837
___ John Tyler
D. Corrupt Bargain
E. “Representative” of the common man
___ James K. Polk
___ Zachary Taylor
A. signed Compromise of 1850
B. Must List
___ Millard Fillmore
___ James Pierce
___ James Buchanon
C. Supported Kansas slave Constitution/Divides
D. Famous general from Mexican – Am. War
E. Ostend Manifesto/ “slaveocracy”
___ Abraham Lincoln
A. Impeached
___ Andrew Johnson
B. Era of “Good Stealings”
___ Ulysses S. Grant
C. Imperialist
___ Rutherford B. Hayes
D. refused to annex Hawaii
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___ Grover Cleveland
E. 13 amendment passed because of him
___ William McKinley F. Compromise of 1877/ Munn Case
___ Teddy Roosevelt
___ William H. Taft
___ Woodrow Wilson
___ Warren Harding
___ Herbert Hoover
A. “Square Deal”/Hepburn Act
B. Teapot Dome Scandal
C. Fourteen Points
D. Dollar Diplomacy
E. Great Depression
Third Parties
High Federalists Essex Junto Liberty Party (1830’s) Anti-masonic party (1830’s) Free Soil Party (1848) –
Know Nothing Party (1850’s)
Greenback Labor Party –
Populist Party – (1892) Progressive Party – (1912)
Dixiecrats (1948) – states rights party, ex-Democrats, anti-Truman’s Fair Deal
American Independent Party – George Wallace – segregationists
Booweevils - moderate Democrats that vote Reagan in 1980
Manifest Destiny (1800-1850)
Issues of the 1850’s (sectionalism)
1865-1900
Reconstruction (1865-1877):
Presidential Plan
Congressional plan
Effect:
Effect:
“New South” after Reconstruction (1877-1900)
Labor Unions
Farmer Challenges/Success
Currency Issues
Civil Service Reform
Indian policies and issues
Gilded Age – Corruption
Social Movements of the Gilded Age
Progressive Movement (1900-1920)
World War I
1920’s
Great Depression and New Deal
World War II
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20 Century Presidents -
Teddy Roosevelt – (1901-1909)
Domestic
Foreign Affairs
Woodrow Wilson – (1913-1921)
Domestic
Foreign Affair
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
Domestic
Foreign policies
Harry Truman (1945-1953)
Domestic
Kennedy (see Venn Diagram)
Johnson (see Venn Diagram)
Nixon (see Venn Diagram)
Foreign policies
Carter – humanitarian president
Georgia Governor
Hyper Inflation (13%)
Iran Hostage Crisis
Carter General Amnesty
Oil Shocks
SALT II
Camp David Peace Accord
big deficits
Olympic boycott
Panama Canal Treaty
“moral quagmire” speech
Reagan – return of neo-conservatives)
New Right –issues/stances
Tax cuts/cuts in social spending SDI
Moral Majority
Supply Side Economics
Solidarity-Poland
“free market capitalism”
Deficit spending on military
Lebanon-marines
Anti-big government (“Gov’t is the problem”, smaller government)Glasnost/perestroika
Iran-Contra Affair
HUGE DEFICITS
Sandra Day OConnor
Bush –
“Read my lips” – No new taxes Americans With Disabilities Act
Tianamen Square
Clarence Thomas
Persian Gulf War
Deficits
Clinton
Election of 1992 – Ross Perot – took 20% of vote, Bush lost,
Clinton – “It’s the Economy, stupid” – campaign slogan
Health Care Reform failure
“Contract with America” – Newt Gingrich (Reps)
Reduction of deficits
Oslo Accords
Brady Bill
Yugoslavia – Milosevic/”ethnic cleansing” (UN)
NAFTA Whitewater scandal – Starr Investigation
Impeachment Trial – Monica Lewinsky