Topic

Year

Cherokee Written Language

1821-1822

Adams Onis Treaty

1819

The Clermont

1807

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Missouri Compromise

1820

Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819

McCullough v. Maryland

1819

Significance to American
History
It gave the Cherokee a new means of
self-expression and a reinvigorated
sense of their identity.
Settled disputes between the United
States and Spain for territorial rights
within the New World, which included
several U.S. states. It also opened a path
for future American expansion.
It became a principal means of
passenger travel on the inland
waterways of the East. The steamboat
revolutionized western commerce.
It signified the rise of a new sense of
independence and self-confidence in
American attitudes toward the Old
World.
The Missouri Compromise solved the
problem by letting Maine in as a free
state to maintain the equality in
numbers of the free and slave states. It
also set out which parts of the
Louisiana Purchase would become
slave territory and which parts would be
free. This affair was ominous for the
future of North-South relations.
By interpreting the contract clause as a
way of protecting corporate charters
from state intervention, Marshall
established the Constitution as a
powerful tool for safeguarding property
rights and limiting state authority.
This case fulfilled the promise of
Marbury v. Madison. The decision in
this case gave Congress broad
discretionary power to implement the
enumerated powers, while
simultaneously repudiating the radical
states' rights arguments presented by
attorneys for Maryland.
The "Commerce Clause" provided the
basis for sweeping congressional power
over a multitude of national issues.
Additionally, the case set the stage for
future expansion of congressional
power over commercial activity and a
vast range of other activities once
thought to come within the jurisdiction
of the states. After Gibbons, Congress
had preemptive authority (take
precedent) over the states to regulate
any aspect of commerce crossing state

Sources

http://www.ushistory.org/us/23c.asp
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_mcculloch.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_gibbons.html
http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~walters/web%20232/232%20home.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/jd/16321.htm