Units 6 and 7 SS

chief justice of the United States Supreme Court for more than three decades, during which time he helped increase the power and prestige of the Federal court system.

• John Marshall
• Andrew Jackson

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Smith

the idea of spreading political power to the people and ensuring majority rule as well as supporting the "common man"

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Jacksonian Democracy

• McCulloch v. Maryland

the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears
• Dred Scott Decision

• Indian Removal Act

• Nullification Crisis

Congress imposed a tariff. South Carolina did not like it and, under Senator Calhoun, attempted to nullify it. Andrew Jackson threatened to send the troops in so South Carolina backed down

• Nullification Crisis

• Trail of Tears

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Georgia

the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. It was widely believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State

• Corrupt Bargain
• Election of 1850

• Nullification Crisis

• Jackson's Bank War

signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.

• Trail of Tears

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Worcester v. Ogden

• Indian Removal Act

Supreme Court case that defined the scope of the federal legislative power and the federal government's relationship with state governmental authority.

• Nullification Crisis

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• McCulloch v. Maryland

A case in which the Court decided that the federal government has exclusive power over interstate commerce.

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Nullification Crisis

• Jackson Bank Wars

repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Nullification Crisis

• John Marshall

• Corrupt Bargain

The idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America

• Indian Removal Act

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Manifest Destiny

• John Marshall