Life in the North, South, and Court Cases

Question 1

What was the Marbury V. Madison court case about?

Answer 1

This case established the right of the Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of laws.

Question 2

Who gave themselves this power?

Answer 2

The Martial Court

Question 3

What was Martin V. Hunter’s Lessee court case about?

Answer 3

This case set the precedent for the supreme court to be the nation’s final appeal court.
The supreme court overruled the courts of the states.

Question 4

Fill in the Blank

The supreme court can review any state or court decision where the decision involves a _____

Answer 4

Federal Statue

Question 5

What was McCulloh v. Maryland court case about?

Answer 5

It established that congress had the power to incorporate the bank

Question 6

What could the Federal Government do to carry out its constitutional power?

Answer 6

What it had to

Question 7

How sponsored the new national bank legislation?

Answer 7

John C. Calhoun (SC), Henry Clay (KY), Daniel Webster (MA)

Question 8

What did the National bank do?

Answer 8

It issued federal banknotes and controlled state banks.

Question 9

What did most state banks do that the national bank would eliminate?

Answer 9

The issue of state money (couldn’t use NY money in PA)

Question 10

Where were the two first national banks?

Answer 10

Philadelphia

Question 11

What is the difference between a tariff and a tax?

Answer 11

Tariffs are taxes on imports and exports while taxes are taxes on normal things in states.

Question 12

What are revenue tariffs?

Answer 12

provided income for the federal government (purpose is just to make money)

Question 13

What are protective tariffs?

Answer 13

Tax on things from out of the country to make our products look good (purpose to protect US manufacturers)

Question 14

What court was the most influential court and shaped the constitution to what it is today?

Answer 14

Martial Court (1801-1835)

Question 15

What was the purpose was Gibbons V. Odgen?

Answer 15

Established federal law, controlled interstate commerce.

Court decided that the federal government has exclusive power over interstate commerce.

Question 16

True or False?

No state law is permitted to supersede federal trade law if commerce/trade is between states

Answer 16

True moo

Question 17

Which law overrides the other?

Federal law or state law?

Answer 17

Federal Law

Question 18

What was the purpose of the Monroe doctrine?

Answer 18

The USA didn’t want to be a British puppet

It warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs

Question 19

In the North who were sometimes educated?

Answer 19

Upper and middle-class men citizens

Question 20

What field were women educated in?

Answer 20

The domestic arts

Question 21

What was the primary economic activity in the north?

Answer 21

Agriculture

Question 22

Although the north wanted slavery abolished they were still very (what)?

Answer 22

Racist

Question 23

What was banned in 1808 that affected the slave market?

Answer 23

Foreign slave trade

Question 24

Approximately how many people were enslaved by 1850?

Answer 24

4 million

Question 25

What group of people dominated the southern economy and political systems?

Answer 25

The planter elite

Question 26

What was the bulk of the southern white population?

Answer 26

Yeoman Farmers

Question 27

What group finished out the social ladder?

Answer 27

White rural poor people

Question 28

Who was below white rural poor

Answer 28

Slaves

Question 29

What percentage of the southern population did slaves make up?

Answer 29

37 percent

Question 30

Children of slaves were allowed to be kids until when?

Answer 30

They were useful

Question 31

When was the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 31

1848

Question 32

What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo mark?

Answer 32

The end of the Mexican-American war

Question 33

What territory did the Americans claim from the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 33

Texas as well as Mexican territories of New Mexico as well as upper California

Question 34

Missouri was a

Answer 34

slave state

Question 35

Maine was a

Answer 35

Free state

Question 36

What was the dividing line between slave and free states?

Answer 36

36° 30° line