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Midterm APUSH SC cas
Review of Supreme Court Cases for Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1819 case that upheld the power of Congress to charter a national bank; said a state could not tax a federal agency; justified Hamilton's interpretation of the elastic clause | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| 1837 Supreme Court ruling that a state can not grant a charter to a company that would be to the public's disadvantage; reverses earlier rulings about the sanctity of contracts | Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co. |
| 1819 decision that declared that private corporation charters were contracts and immune from the state's legislative action | Dartmouth College v. Woodward |
| 1810 case which involved the first state law declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; involved a state interfering with a man's legal purchase of land that the owner had obtained through corruption | Fletcher v. Peck |
| The Court in 1832 ruled that a state could not abrogate a treaty made with an Indian tribe; Jackson refused to enforce the treaty and it was basically ignored as Indians were forced to move to the Oklahoma territory | Worcester v. Georgia |
| 1843 Massachusetts case which ruled that it was constitutional for unions to strike and conspiracy laws could not be used to put down a strike | Commonwealth v. Hunt |
| 1824 case in which the Court ruled that only the federal government had authority over interstate commerce | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| 1857 infamous decision that ruled that blacks were not citizens and so could not sue in federal court; stated that Congress did not have the right to keep slavery out of the territories and thus the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
| Established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review in 1803; the case arose over the Jefferson administration's attempt to avoid hiring a federalist leftover | Marbury v. Madison |
| The Court ruled it was unconstitutional for bounty hunters or anyone but the owner of an escaped slave to apprehend the slave; ruling weakened the fugitive slave laws | Prigg v. Pennsylvania |
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