*Note* I arrived slightly late to this session, so I don't have entirely complete notes */Note*
Democrats
Post 1812
Andrew Jackson
Strong Executive branch
Whigs
Calhoun, Webster, Clay
Federalists transformed into Whigs
Non Sectional
Anti-Jackson
Pre-Civil War
Democrats
Hadn't taken a stance on slavery
Pro states rights, leads to weak regional candidates
Civil War to WWI
Republicans
Support big business
Support international imperialism
Gained black voters (republicans emancipated the slaves)
Democrats
Immigrants, small farmers, laborers, working class
South and the West
Depression to today
Republicans
Concerned with national security
Pro big business
Democrats
Loose coalition of labor unions
Farmers
Government subsidies
Populist Party
Farmer initiated
Largest third party
Grange movement
Never have elected a president, but Democrats copy many political ideals
Tarriffs
Tax on trade
Raises revenue
Controls foreign competition
Begun by Hamilton
Uses tariffs to pay off Am. Rev. debt
Most important
Tariff of 1816
Era of Good Feelings
Designed to create manufacturing independence
Away from Britain
1828, Tariff of Abominations
Jackson Administration
South hates tariff on cotton and goods from the South
Nullification Crisis
Leads to sectional divides and the Civil War
McKinley Tariff, 1890
Tariff on sugar
1909 Payne Aldrich Tariff
Splits the Republican Party
1913 Underwood Tariff
Creates the graduated income tax
1930 Hawley Smoot Tariff
Puts a higher tariff on European goods
One of the causes of WW2
Causes a world depression
Domino effect as other nations enact similar tariffs
Supreme Court Cases
Marshall Court
Marbury vs. Madison
Midnight appointments
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Constitutionality of banking
Right of the state to tax a Federal bank
Gibbens vs. Ogden
Affirms the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce
Johnson vs. Macintosh
Native tribes have rights to tribal lands
Cherokee vs. Geogia
Native tribes are the wards of the U.S., protection must be provided by the Federal Gov.
Georgia does not have jurisdiction over Cherokee Nation
Worcester vs. Georgia
Tribes are sovereign nation, not subject to the authority of state governments
Post Marshall
Commonwealth vs. Hunt
Unions and strikes are legal
Dredd Scott vs. Sanford
Slaves cannot sue
Escaped slaves are property
Not citizens
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Seperate but equal racial facilities are tolerated
Brown vs. Board of Education
Overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson
Education facilities are separate and unequal
Munn vs. Illinois
Upholds the Granger laws to regulate the railroads
Federally mandated prices and timetables for RR's
Overturns Wabash case
States the Railroads are business and can dictate prices and timetables at will
Miranda vs. Arizona
Miranda Rights
Police must read an arrested suspect their rights
Expands criminal rights
Roe vs. Wade
Women have the right to have an early term abortion
Stems from state laws
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