APUSH court cases
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Marbury v. Madison (1803) | Midnight judge appointments; judicial review upheld |
| Fletcher v. Peck (1810) | Land fraud in Georgia; defense of individual contracts |
| Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819) | College charter; states couldn't overturn contracts |
| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | Bank of Maryland; national supremacy over states |
| Gibbons v. Ogden (1822) | Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce upheld |
| Worcester v. Georgia (1831) | Cherokee nation sovereign entity; Jackson ignored it |
| Charles River Bridge (1837) | Exclusive charter to span river; States could break contracts in public interest |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | Slaves were not citizens & had no legal standing; Slaves were property in north; Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional |
| Slaughterhouse Cases & Civil Rights Cases (1873,1883) | 14th Ammendment did not apply to states; reconstruction civil rights laws unconstitutional |
| Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886) | Corporations protected by 14th Ammendment; corporate personhood |
| U.S. v. E.C. Knight (1895) | "Sugar Trust case"; federal gov can't break up monopoly unless interstate commerce involved |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Established 'separate but equal' doctrine |
| Lochner v. New York (1905) | 10-hour workday law overturned; right to contract stronger than state interest |
| Schenck v. U.S. (1919) | WWI measure; free speech restricted when "clear and present danger" |
| Powell v. Alabama (1932) | Scottsboro Boys rape case; violation of due process; capital case must have attorney |
| Schechter v. U.S. (1935) | Poultry farmers violated NIRA; NIRA ruled unconstitutional b/c invalid use of Congress' power under commerce clause |
| NRLB v. Jones (1937) | Wagner Act ruled constitutional |
| West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) | Minimum wage declared constitutional; effectively overturns Lochner |
| Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) | Upheld relocation of American citizens of Japanese descent |
| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | School integration case; overturned 'separate but equal' doctrine of Plessy |
| Baker v. Carr (1962) | Transfer of power from rural America to cities with reapportionment; "One man, one vote" |
| Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | Right to a court-appointed lawyer to defend yourself; extension of Scottsboro boys case |
| Heart of Atlanta Hotel (1964) | Civil Rights Act of 1964 upheld |
| Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | Police have to inform suspects of rights |
| Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) | State of Connecticut can't ban sale of contraceptives; right to privacy defended |
| New York Times v. U.S. (1971) | Freedom of press allows for publication of Pentagon Papers |
| Roe v. Wade (1973) | Legalization of abortion |
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