... . 1804- Jefferson tries to impeach one of the Supreme Court justices - Samuel Chase. Jefferson reduces the number of men in the militia to 25,000. The expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departs, moving up the Missouri River. Burr challenges Hamilton to a duel. Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in the duel at Weehawken, New Jersey. In the election ... in the Bay of Tripoli on their captured ship, the Philadelphia. The naval war with Tripoli ends shortly thereafter. 1805- On March 4 Jefferson is inaugurated as president for a second term. Lewis and Clark depart fro...

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... America. Zigzagging for several weeks, the ship eventually landed near the coast of Long Island. The Africans were jailed and charged with piracy and murder. A group of abolitionists, headed by Lewis Tappan, formed a defense committee. There was a major court case involving who the ship and slaves rightfully belong and where the slaves came from. Attorney Roger Baldwin was on the defense ... for the Africans. The case was taken to the United States Supreme Court, and with help from former President John Quincy Adams, the Africans were ruled free. Spielberg starts the film with the scene...

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... lead to the power of judicial review installing itself in the Supreme Court - they would now decide what laws were constitutional and which laws were not. This system still exists. John Marshall - The chief Supreme Court Justice who shaped nearly all of the Court's rulings. Presided over Marbury and Madison and made the judiciary branch coequal with the executive and legislative ... plunged the US into a temporary depression. People thought Jefferson was unconstitutional in approving of this act, and Madison was elected president the next time around. War Hawks - Henry Clay and John Cal...

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... the nation. The Brown decision was a pivotal advancement in the fight for equality; for many it represented the beginning of desegreagation. In 1896, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan ruled in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, that segregation of the races was legal under the 14th Amendment. This Supreme Court case determined blacks could legally be restricted ... around the decision. The Supreme Courts decision brought about major confrontations between the federal government and the states, and between the Black and White populations of several Southern cities. ...

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... action, although barely, followed the Constitution in the executive rights it grants, and helped to unify the nation by increasing territory, nationalism and the spread of democracy. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall instituted judicial review, which could override decisions brought about by Congress; he then used this power to institute supremacy of the federal government above the state governments, as in ... and existence of slavery. Thus, the Free-Soilers feared the slave conspiracy that they felt was advocated with the Fugitive Slave law of 1850(Doc.D), the Compromise of 1850(Doc...

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