APUSH Marshall Court Cases

Gibbons v. Ogden

• This case established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review—the power to determine whether or not a law or other government action is constitutional.

• This case is designed to make sure that those accused of a crime know their rights before they are interrogated by police.

• The court decided that the federal government only (not the states) had the right to control interstate commerce.

• This case gave the legal green light to “separate but equal” public facilities for blacks and whites. It legitimized the Jim Crow segregation laws that would characterize racial policy for the next half-century.

Marbury v. Madison

• This case established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review—the power to determine whether or not a law or other government action is constitutional.

• The court decided that the federal government only (not the states) had the right to control interstate commerce.

• The Supreme Court ruled that interning Japanese-Americans during World War II, even those who were citizens born in the U.S., was legal.

• This decision expanded the guarantees of the Bill of Rights by ruling that the 6th Amendment right to an attorney regardless of ability to pay applies to state cases as well as federal ones.

What court case says the states cannot tax the federal government?

• McCullough v Maryland

• Gibbons v Ogden

• Fletcher v Peck

• Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Which case upheld the sanctity of contracts?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dartmouth College v. Woodward

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

Which case established the idea that native tribes could not sell their land to private U.S. citizens, but only the federal government?

• Johnson v. M'Intosh

• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Fletcher v. Peck

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia?

• Georgia laws do NOT apply in the Cherokee Nation

• Cherokee must cede their lands to the Georgians

• all white missionaries must leave the Cherokee Nation

• Georgia has the right to distribute Cherokee lands using a lottery system

This case established that native tribes did not constitute "foreign nations" under Article 3 of the Constitution (the case was dismissed by SCOTUS)

• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Fletcher v. Peck

• Johnson v. M'Intosh

Which ruling upheld a land contract that was made before a Georgia law was repealed?

• Fletcher v Peck

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Worcester v Georgia

• Cohens v Virginia

Which court case stated that the Supreme Court could make a ruling on state laws?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Darmouth College v. Woodward

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Cohens v. Virginia

In this Supreme Court case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights limited only the actions of the Federal government and not those of the states.

• Gitlow v. New York

• Barron v. Baltimore

• Near v. Minnesota

• Palko v. Connecticut