US History - Regents Review - President, Amendments, Court Cases

This was added to the Constitution to please the Anti-Federalists, who were concerned about the Government taking away our Civil Liberties.

• The Elastic Clause

• The Bill of Rights

• The Executive Branch

• The Unwritten Constitution

This President was known for: Establishing the 2-term presidency, Warning the US to stay out of the political affairs of others, and suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion

• Jefferson

• Madison

• Washington

• Adams

This President was known for: stating in the 1820s that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to European colonization.

• Washington

• Madison

• Monroe

• Jackson

This President was known for: Defying the Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia, sending the Native Americans on a "Trail of Tears", vetoing the National Bank, creating the Spoils System, and dealing with the Nullification Crisis of South Carolina

• Monroe

• Quincy Adams

• Jefferson

• Jackson

This President was known for: Buying the Louisiana Purchase and changing his interpretation of the Constitution from strict to loose; he also wrote the Declaration of Independence.

• Washington

• Franklin

• Madison

• Jefferson

This President was known for: suspending Habeas Corpus during the Civil War; Emancipating the slaves; and his 1860 election was the immediate cause of the Civil War

• Lincoln

• Grant

• Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

This President was known for: "With Malice Toward None"; a lenient Reconstruction Plan of 10%; being an anti-slavery Republican

• Andrew Johnson

• Grant

• Hayes

• Lincoln

This President is known for: being the 1st president to be impeached; disagreeing with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction

• Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Grant

• McKinley

This Presidents "Compromise of 1877" election led to the end of Reconstruction when he promised to withdraw all Federal troops from the South

• Lincoln

• McKinley

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• William Jennings Bryan

This President was known for: Getting the US involved in the Spanish-American War after the USS Maine exploded; Assassinated in 1901

• Theodore Roosevelt

• McKinley

• Wilson

• Taft