APUSH Big Ideas

Marshall declared no and national law trumps state law whenever they contradict so this further shows expansion of federal power

• Lochner v. NY

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Ruled that slaves were not considered U.S. citizens, meaning that they couldn't sue in courts and were bound to the laws of the state their masters lived in, as well as declaring that Congress could not pass laws to ban slavery in western territories.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Brown v. BOE

• Bush v. Gore

• Roe v. Wade

This power became known as judicial review and significantly increased the power of the SCOTUS

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. GA and Cherokee Nation v. GA

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

an 1875 Supreme Court case that arose from the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana and centered on the constitutionality of the Enforcement Act of 1870. The Enforcement Act had granted the federal government power over enforcing the right to vote, with military action if necessary.

• Slaughterhouse Cases

• United States vs. Cruikshank

• Insular Cases

• Buck v. Bell

resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873, ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," as protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and did not include many rights given by the individual states.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• University of California Regents v. Bakke

• Slaughterhouse Cases

• Obergefell v. Hodges

Ruled that because the Cherokee Nation was a separate political entity that could not be regulated by the state, Georgia's license law was unconstitutional and Worcester's conviction should be overturned.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Worcester v. GA and Cherokee Nation v. GA

• Brown v. BOE

• University of California Regents v. Bakke

the Court concluded, the right to contract one’s labor was a “liberty of the individual” protected by the Constitution.

• Lochner v. NY

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Obergefell v. Hodges

was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger refused to sit in a car for Black people.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Roe v. Wade

• Insular Cases

• Bush v. Gore

a series of opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1901 about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War.

• Brown v. BOE

• Korematsu v. US

• Roe v. Wade

• Insular Cases

A case in which the Court ruled that the Virginia statute authorizing sterilization of inmates of institutions did not violate inmates' rights

• Worcester v. GA and Cherokee Nation v. GA

• Marbury v. Madison

• Buck v. Bell

• Bush v. Gore