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Brown V. Board - Answer- 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson,
declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public
schools desegregated.
McCulloch v. Maryland - Answer- 1819 Supreme Court case that established
Congress's "implied powers" that the Federal Gov't had the right and power to set up a
bank and states can't tax the Federal Gov't
Gibbons v. Ogden - Answer- Supreme Court ruling (1824) establishing national
authority over interstate business
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier - Answer- 1988 Supreme Court case holding that the school
newspaper written by students could be censored by the school administration. Student
speech can be censored if it interferes with the school's educational mission. This case
placed limits on first amendment speech.
Gideon v. Wainwright - Answer- 1963 ruling that a defendant in a felony trial must be
provided a lawyer free of charge if the defendant cannot afford one.
Plessy v. Ferguson - Answer- 1896 ruling that separate but equal facilities for different
races were not unconstitutional.
Schenck v. US - Answer- 1919; conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to
resist the draft during WW1. Justice Holmes declared that gov't can limit speech if the
speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils.
US v. Nixon - Answer- The 1974 case in which the Supreme Court unanimously held
that the doctrine of executive privilege was implicit in the Constitution but could not be
extended to protect documents relevant to criminal prosecutions.
District of Columbia v. Heller - Answer- 2008 Court held that the Second Amendment
protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia,
and to use that firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self- defense within the
home.
Roe v. Wade - Answer- The 1973 Supreme Court decision holding that a state ban on
all abortions was unconstitutional. The decision forbade state control over abortions
during the first trimester of pregnancy, permitted states to limit abortions to protect the
mother's health in the second trimester, and permitted states to protect the fetus during
the third trimester.
, Northwest Ordinance - Answer- Enacted in 1787, it established a system for setting up
governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an
equal footing with the original 13 states
Alien and Sedition Acts - Answer- Series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the
political power of recent immigrants
Judiciary Act of 1789 - Answer- legislation passed by Congress that created the federal
court system
Land Act of 1800, 1804 - Answer- established rules for purchasing land
Judiciary act of 1801 - Answer- a law that increased the number of federal judges,
allowing President John Adams to fill most of the new posts with Federalists
Indian removal act - Answer- Passed in 1830, authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate
land-exchange treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi. The treaties enacted
under this act's provisions paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—
emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West.
Missouri compromise - Answer- 1820 law passed by Congress balancing the admission
of Missouri as a slave state with the admission of Maine as a free state, and setting a
line across western territories at 36°30′ north latitude, dividing future free and slave
states
Kansas-Nebraska Act - Answer- 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and
gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through
popular sovereignty.
Compromise of 1850 - Answer- (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
Homestead act - Answer- 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live
on and cultivate it for five years
Civil rights act of 1866 - Answer- law that established federal guarantees of civil rights
for all citizens
Chinese exclusion act - Answer- 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese
laborers
Selective service act - Answer- act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of
men for military service