Supreme court cases, acts and terms for STAAR

Case in which the supreme court first asserted th power of Judicial review in finding that the congressional statue expanding the Court's original jurisdiction was unconstitutional

• Marbury vs madison

• gibbons vs ogden

• worchester vs georgia

• mccullough vs maryland

Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it

• marbury vs madison

• gibbons vs ogden

• worchester vs georgia

• mcullough vs maryland

(1819) case that said federal law trumps state law. Also said states could not sue the national government

• marbury vs madison

• gibbons vs ogden

• worchestor vs georgia

• mccullough vs maryland

Regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government

• marbury vs madison

• gibbons vs odgen

• worchester vs georgia

• mccullough vs maryland

The case that said slaves were property and had no rights

• plessy vs ferguson

• marbury vs madison

• dredd scott vs sanford

• tyson vs jake paul

a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed

• the great compromise

• the 3/5ths compromise

• the northwest ordinance

• the proclamation of 1763

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

• Missouri compromise

• maine compromise

• the great compromise

• the 3/5ths compromise

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

• the great compromise

• the missouri compromise

• the compromise of 1850

• the kansas / nebraksa act

(1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges.

• the morril act

• the kansas / nebraska act

• the homestead act

• the tea act

(1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges.

• the morril act

• the dawes act

• the stamp act

• the tea act