New Nation Notes

Multiple Choice

Supreme Court case that sets up the power of judicial review.

• Marbury v Madison

• Brown v Board of Education

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Plessy v Ferguson

Multiple Choice

Staying out of a conflict by not taking a side

• Precedent

• Judicial Review

• Neutrality

• Cabinet

Multiple Choice

Where two major political parties dominate decision making

• Marbury v Madison

• Two-Party System

• Alien & Sedition Acts

• Multi-Party System

Multiple Choice

Series of laws that set out to limit criticism of the government

• Black Codes

• Alien & Sedition Act

• Monroe Doctrine

• Judicial Review

Multiple Choice

A group of advisors

• Cabinet

• Conference

• Judicial Review

• Precedent

Multiple Choice

The power to determine if a law is unconstitutional

• Precedent

• Monroe Doctrine

• Marbury v Madison

• Judicial Review

Multiple Choice

An earlier event that is used as a guide for future similar events

• Cabinet

• Neutrality

• Precedent

• Judicial Review

Open Ended

How did the precedents set by George Washington shape the role and expectations of future presidents?

Open Ended

How does this political cartoon relate to the Monroe Doctrine, as we described it in class?

How is it different?

Draw

Illustrate the term cabinet as we discussed in class today.

Multiple Choice

What was the primary purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts?

• To strengthen the United States military

• To protect the United States from foreign threats

• To suppress opposition to the federal government

• To encourage immigration to the United States

Multiple Choice

In Marbury vs. Madison, the Supreme Court established a principle that would eventually be used by all courts to-

• strike down any law that the court deems unconstitutional

• decide the outcome of contested election results

• overturn any impeachment that the court deems unsupported by evidence

• mediate disputes related to commerce between states

Draw

Illustrate the term neutrality as we described it in class.

Open Ended

You are the leader of a brand new country. After fighting for 8 years, loosing as many as 25,000 soldiers, and creating a debt as large as $75 million, what issues will you have to face as the new leader?

Draw

Illustrate the term precedent as we talked about it in class today.