HOTA Adams/Marshall Court

When the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were created, what controversial idea was introduced for the first time?

• Secession

• Judicial Review

• Immigration Quotas

• Nullification

Alien and Sedition Acts

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

These pieces of legislation reflected the conflict between

• Congress and President

• states' rights and federal supremacy

• the military and the civilian government

• the US Supreme Court and state courts

Which action is an example of the unwritten Constitution?

• formation of the first cabinet by President George Washington

• admission of Vermont and Kentucky as states

• enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Acts by President John Adams

• declaration of war by Congress in 1812

The XYZ affair, when France asked for money from the US Diplomats, set the precedent that the

• US will expand to the Pacific Ocean

• the US will remain neutral

• Americans can travel on the Mississippi

• The US will not pay bribes

The establishment of judicial review in Marbury v Madison (1803) gave federal courts the authority to

• decide whether a law is constitutional

• create lower courts

• approve foreign treaties

• appoint judges to lifetime terms

What was a significant effect of Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Marshall (1801-1835)

• the powers of the federal government were increased

• the extension of slavery was limited

• the president's use of the veto power was restricted

• the states were given more control over interstate commerce

In Gibbons v Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court strengthened the federal government's role in the national economy by

• outlawing the triangular trade

• banning states from issuing money

• upholding the power of Congress to regulate interstate trade

• limiting the growth of corporations

The Supreme Court decisions in Marbury v Madison (1803), McCulloch v Maryland (1819), and Gibbons v Ogden (1824) are similar in that each resulted in the

• development of new political powers

• admission of new slave states

• strengthening of the power of the federal government

• expansion of the rights of corporations

In Marbury v Madison (1803), the Supreme Court established a precedent for

• judicial review

• the impeachment process for civil officers

• lifetime offices for justices

• treaty ratification procedures