Test 2--Content

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Was an amendment to a bill appropriating money to pay for territory that might be acquired in the end of the war?

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Wilmot Proviso

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What stipulated that any territory given from Mexico would be 'free soil'?>

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Wilmot Proviso

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The majority of the justices agreed that the slave was not a citizen of Missouri and could not bring a case in federal court as a citizen of one state suing a citizen of another

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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What is expressly delegated powers to declare war, regulate the armed forces, guarantee republican forms of government to the states, and suspend the privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus?

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War Powers

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This law established notes or 'greenbacks' issued under government authority as legal currency

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Legal Tender Acts

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Gave each state a federal land grant to help pay for colleges

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Morrill Act

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People who wanted to abolish slavery

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Radical Republicans

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The Supreme Court rebuffed the idea that the rebellion was merely an insurrection by individuals, ruling that the states and all their inhabitants could be treated as belligerents?

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The Prize Cases

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Began to urge for a ceasefire, to be followed, they hoped, by negotiations for a restoration of the Union?

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Peace Democrats or Copperheads

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Enabled the government to hold suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial?

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Suspension of habeas corpus

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The provision for suspending the privilege of the writ located in article 1 of the Constitution and points out that suspension was a congressional rather than presidential power?

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Ex parte Merryman

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Who resided over Ex parte Merryman?

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Taney

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Denied that the president had any general authority to suppress resistance to federal laws. The President's duty was merely to aid the courts if they were unable to enforce their orders.

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Ex Parte Merryman

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A bare majority of the justices held that although Congress could authorize the suspension of the privilege of habeas corpus, neither it nor the president could suspend the writ, declare martial law, and authorize military commission to try civilians where the civil courts were open

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Ex Parete milligan

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required the taker to swear that he had never provided aid or comfort to the rebellion or had not don so since a certain date

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test oaths

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Issued stated that all slaves behind enemy lines as free?

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Claimed inherent presidential power to advance the public welfare by assuming quasi-legislative power on some occasions and ignoring legal restraints on others?

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prerogative presidency

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Provided that while the Senate was in session, the President could not remove government officers only upon the confirmation of their successors while Congress was adjourned he could only suspend them temporarily

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Tenure of Office Act

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The Court held that state citizenship and national citizenship entailed different rights. The Fourteenth amendment protected on the rights associated with national citizenship. These national rights were limited in scope and did not include the ordinary day-to-day rights that people possessed by virtue of their state citizenship.

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The Slaughterhouse cases

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Defined the privileges of American citizenship narrowly

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The slaughterhouse cases

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The Supreme Court confirmed the implication of the Civil Rights Cases. It held that states did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment by requiring segregation of the races in facilities serving the public

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Court established the Separate but Equal doctrine: As long as the separate facilities provided for each race were generally equal, segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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The conviction that government only stunted prosperity when it tried to interfere with the natural laws that governed economic life.

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Lassez-faire

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laws that benefited particular groups instead of the community as a whole?

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class legislation

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the number of workers available compared to the number of jobs that employers needed to fill?

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supply and demand

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making it illegal to advocate resistance to lawful authority. Courts agreed that individuals could be punished for membership in organizations that encouraged resistance to law, or for giving speeches and publishing language that tended to encourage such resistance, even if they did not directly advocate it or engage in it?

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antisyndicalism laws

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where a labor rally exploded in violence, the meeting's organizers and speakers were sentenced to death on the argument that they must have known that their actions might lead to bloodshed?

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Haymarket Riot

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Was part of a general movement towards censorship and intolerance in the late nineteenth century?

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Bad Tendency Test

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A drive to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages gained momentum

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Prohibition

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Jailed Mormons protested that the anti-polgamy law violated their right to exercise their religious beliefs. But the Supreme Court drew a distinction between belief and behavior that remains a key element of the First Amendment?

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Reynolds v United States

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barring the use of public money to support sectarian education. It aimed to prevent government financial support for Catholic schools

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Blaine Amendment

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Established railroad commissions to regulate the charges and practices of shipping companies and grain-storage facilities

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Patrons of Husbandry

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Supported calls for nationwide reform. This group grew stronger in the Democratic party

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Populists

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Who ran on a platform of free coinage of silver as a Populist and Democrat splitting the vote and giving it to the ____?

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William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley

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Limited the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court in essence had rejected a claim that the Louisiana law requiring butchers to use a single slaughterhouse was class legislation that deprived them of their privileges as American citizens

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The Slaughterhouse Cases

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A five to four majority ruled the new federal income tax unconstitutional for violating the Constitution's vague prohibition on 'direct' taxes. In the same year, it sustained the use of labor injunctions by federal judges in strikes involving interstate commerce, although congress had passed no law authorizing them

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Income Tax Cases

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The majority of the justices concluded that a law limiting the working hours of bakers could not possibly be related to health and safety and was therefore arbitrary, unconstitutional interference with liberty of contract?

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Lochner v. New York

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regulate railroads and steamship lines/

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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Supplemented state monopoly laws making it illegal to conspire to monopolize interstate commerce

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Made the distinction between production and commerce

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US v EC Knight Co

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Production was in state jurisdiction and therefore the national government could not use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up a company that gained control?

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US v EC Knight Co

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Warned that those who wanted to get special benefits would seek to gain control of government to accomplish their nefarious end

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William Graham Sumner

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Ruled that the federal anti-contract labor law, which barred any person or organization from paying the cost of transporting an employee to the US, could not have been intended to cover religious organization?

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Holy Trinity Church v US

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making it illegal to import, transport, or mail pornography or any 'article of indecent or immoral nature, or any article of medicine . . . for causing abortion.'

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Comstock Law

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An idea had to be tested against reality to see if it were true?

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pragmatism

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Who advocated pragmatism?

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Dewey

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required US senators to be elected directly by the people?

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Seventeenth Amendment

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Regulated banking

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The Federal Reserve Act

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called for an end to prudery and for the promotion of sex education and birth control. Went on to found the Birth Control League which later became known as Planned Parenthood

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Margaret Sanger

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Banned Alcohol

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Eighteenth Amendment

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Organized in 1911 to combat social problems among African Americans immigrating to the North, was another manifestation of the progressive impulse

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Gave women the right to vote?

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Nineteenth Amendment

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Theodore Roosevelt developed this theory. The President represented all the people, while Congress represented only local constituencies, he said, the president had a special responsibility to protect their welfare?

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The Stewardship Theory

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Overturned New York's maximum hour law for bakery workers?

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Lochner v. New York

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The Court ruled that the stockyards and meat-packing houses, where animals were collected and slaughtered for shipment to the rest of the county, were part of a 'stream of commerce'' and therefore subjected to federal regulation?

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Swift and Company v US

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Clear and Present Danger test

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Schenk v US

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First attempt to restore confidence in the economy and especially in the banking system, which was on the brink of collapse.

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bank holiday

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to regulate the stock market

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Securities Exchange Commission

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Created codes for many industries

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National Recovery Act

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Created the National Labor Relations Board to prevent unfair labor practices that obstructed union organization

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Wagner Act

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Congress passed any law the president wanted to fight the Depression

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The One Hundred Days

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dismissed the importance of legalistic arguments about constitutional authority

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legal realism

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The court ruled the national Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional. All the justices agreed that the law delegated too much authority to the president and the National Recovery Administration, violating the separation of powers ordained by the Constitution

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Schechtner Poultry Corp v US

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Repudiated the laissez-faire constitutionalism doctrines of 'liberty of contract' and 'substantive due process of law'

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West Coast Hotel Co v. Parrish

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repudiated the concept of 'state rights' or
'dual federalism

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US v. Darby

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The Court upheld wheat production limits applied to an Ohio dairy farmer under the second Agricultural Adjustment Act.

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Wickard v. Filburn