Court Cases & Early America

What court case established judicial review?

Marbury vs. Madison

What court case established the slaves were property, not citizens?

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

What court case established the doctrine of Implied powers?

Mculloh vs. Maryland

What court case ruled “separate but equal” to be constitutional?

Plessy vs. Ferguson

What court case ruled “separate but equal” to be unconstitutional?

Brown vs. Board of Education

What court case ruled in favor of interracial marriage?

Loving vs. Virginia

What did the 13th amendment do?

Ended slavery

What did the 14th amendment do?

Citizenship to all born in the USA and due process of law

What did the 15th amendment do?

Free man can vote

What religious group settled New England?

Puritans

Most individuals settling in VA were seeking what?

Economic opportunities

Which colony did the VIrginia Company of London establish in 1607?

Jamestown

The Virginia House of Burgesses was?

The first elected assembly

Differences between the poor and rich in the south

Rich- involved in gov, allegiance to C of E, and eastern coast

Poor- Inland, Scots-Irish, small farmers hunters and traders

German-speaking immigrants settled primarily in which region?

Middle Atlantic

The economy of the New England colonies was partially based on what

Hardwork and Thrift

The economy of the middle colonies was based primarily on what two major cities?

New York City

Philadelphia

The colony of Rhode Island was established as a result of?

Founded dissenters fleeing persecution of Puritans in Massachusetts

Which religious group usually settled in the middle colonies?

Quakers

Huguenots

Jews

Presbytarians

Which colonial region’s economy was based on ship building, lumbering, and small scale farming?

New England

What what the colonial religious movement that was a social foundation for the American revolution?

The Great Awakening

Why was slavery most predominant in the Southern colonies?

CHEAP LABOR on a LARGE SCALE

Plantations were larger which means more labor

Mayflower compact

an agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony.

House of burgesses

the first democratically elected legislative assembly in the American colonies

Triangle trade

a brutal, three-legged transatlantic system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas

Mercantilism

Aim to maxify wealth

Great awakening

social foundation for the American revolution