abolition study guide

Jim Crow laws

Laws that legalized racial segregation of blacks and white in southern states

Why was Marburg v Madison significant

Judicial review was decided. Supreme Court was the authority to renew acts of congress and determine whether they are unconstitutional and therefore void

What were some reasons for people to move west?

Land, protection, opportunity, go big!, manifest destiny, and riches

What group of people gained the right to vote during the era of Jacksonian democracy

White men without property as states dropped traditional landownership and tax-paying requirements

Explain John C Calhoun’s views on the states and federal laws

Thought that states had the right to veto or nullify a federal law they think is constitutional

What were the results of the second awakening

A revival of religious thought, many new Protestant churches were formed, led to reform movements, education, temperance(outlawing alcohol), women’s suffrage, abolition(banning slavery)

What was the Supreme Court ruling on the case of Dred Scott? What was the reaction of the North?

Slaves are not citizens, Missouri compromise and unconstitutional, you cannot take property from the owner, angered many northern supporters of abolition of slavery

As a result of the civil war, which government had the most power? Federal or states?

the federal gov increased their power over the states

13th amendment (1865)

Abolished slavery

14th amendment (1868)

Citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.

15th amendment (1870)

Voting rights for ALL men