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a court case in which the state of Maryland imposed a tax of $15,000 on notes issued by the Baltimore branch office of the Second Bank in order to preserve the independence and competitive position of the state banks. Happened in 1819 |
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a court case in which the Yazoo land company contested the retrieval of their land by the Georgian legislature; they won and it changed the way people viewed state land. It happened in 1810 |
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Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
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a case in 1816 where the New Hampshire tried to convert the private Dartmouth College to a public University, but they contested it and won. |
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a credit crisis sparked by a sharp drop in the world agricultural prices |
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selling products to faraway places and not just locally, it started after the Panic of 1819 |
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often included a grant of limited liability that made it easier to attract investors; in the event the business failed, the personal assets of the shareholders could not be seized to pay the corporation’s debts. |
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Charles River Bridge Case
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a case in which Roger Taney deemed the Charles River Bridge Company not a monopoly and the state of Massachusetts could create a competing bridge company. |
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a case that resulted in the upheld rights of workers to form unions and enforce a closed shop in 1842 |
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a physical sensuous appreciation of God, nature, and other human beings. |
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March 22, 1765;
Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set.
In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. |
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committees of correspondence
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| something that Samuel Adams started in November 1772. It was a group of patriots getting together in Boston, writing patriots in other towns "to state the Rights of the Colonists of this Province." |
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1) a port bill closed the Boston harbor until the East India Company recieved payment for the destroyed tea.
2) A gov't act annulled the Mass. charter and prohibited most local town meetings.
3) a new quartering act required the colony to build barracks or accomodate soldiers in private homes.
4) to protect royal officials from patriot-dominated juries in Mass., a justice act allowed the transfer of the trials for capital crimes to other colonies or to Britain.
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| that your actions and choices should be made with the best interests of the Republic at heart. |
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| eliminating slavery, but slowly so as not to throw the country into an "economic crisis" |
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| established a grid surveying system and required that the lands be survey before settlement. |
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| Articles of confederation |
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| written in November 1777, it was essentially the prequel to the Constitution. It made laws regarding states' rights and other such things. |
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| In 1786 residents of central and western counties called extralegal meetings to protest the taxes and property seizures, and bands of angry farmers closed the courts by force. |
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| Hamilton's Report on Public Credit |
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| asked Congress to buy (redeem) at face value the millions of dollars in securities issued by the Confederation, a redemption plan that would bolster the gov'ts credit but also provide windfall profits to speculators. |
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| In 1803 Marbury wanted to be the Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia, but James Madison refused him and he took it to Supreme court. The supreme court there inacted the first judicial review, which is why it is significant. |
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| 1795; a treaty in which the main intent was to manipulate the Native Americans into needing the European Americans. They did this by pressuring the Indians to give up their lands in return for money and goods. But they didn't have land, so it wasn't good. |
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| the practice of trying to coerce the Native Americans to be like European-Americans, by making them blend with Euro-American culture. The Indians disliked this policy very much, as would any one. |
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| prohibited American ships from leaving their home ports until Britain and France repealed their restrictions on U.S. trade. |
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| In 1814, Federalists in the Massachusetts legislature called for a convention " to lay the foundation for a radical reform in the National Compact," and in December New England federalists met in Hartford, Connecticut to discuss strategy for the War of 1812. |
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| early 1790s; an American plan for Mercantilism. Similar to the Navigation Acts by British Parliament. reasoning for it is to stimulate the economy. |
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