APUSH Week 7 IDs

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Tallmadge Amendment

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An attempt to have no more slaves brought to Missouri and provided gradual emancipation of the children of slaves. Seen by the South as a threat to the sectional balance between North and South.

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory.

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Monroe Doctrine (1823)

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US foreign policy stating that European efforts to colonize or interfere in the Americas would be seen as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

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Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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Established the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review.

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Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

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Established the precedent that the Supreme Court could rule a state law unconstitutional.

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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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Upheld the power of the national government and denied the right of a state to tax the federal bank, using the Constitution's supremacy clause.

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Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819)

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Upheld the original charter of the college against New Hampshire's attempt to alter the board of trustees; set precedent of support of contracts against state interference.

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Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

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Upheld broad congressional power to regulate interstate commerce, interpreting the Constitution's commerce clause broadly.

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Cotton Gin, 1793

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A machine invented by Eli Whitney that revolutionized cotton production by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.

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Lowell Mills

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Textile mills in Massachusetts employing mostly women known as Lowell Mill Girls, significant for early labor reform activities.