Discuss the role of the Supreme Court in American history from 1800-1865 under Chief Justice John Marshall and Roger Taney.
Pretend you are basically writing an “open book, open note” essay in class. Write it in your own words.
.Essay Choices (Choose ONE):
1) Discuss the role of the Supreme Court in American history from 1800-1865 under Chief Justice John Marshall and Roger Taney. Be sure to discuss the major issues each court dealt with, how they ruled on those decisions, and the political impact of those decisions. (Be sure also to name specific cases/rulings).
2) Discuss the development of the American two-party system from the Washington administration through the Lincoln Administration. Be sure to discuss the development and supporters of the Federalist and Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican parties and the divisions within the Democratic-Republicans that led to the National Republican, Whig, and Jacksonian Democratic parties and, ultimately, the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln. What were some “third-party” movements that developed, and why did they not survive (except for Lincoln’s Republicans)?
3) What were the origins of the big reform movements that arose during the Age of Reform? What ideas about America helped to bring about these movements? What issues did these reform movements focus on (be sure to specifically name what areas of American society they were trying to reform and who the major reform advocates were)? What tactics did each movement choose to bring about its proposed reform? How and why did many of these movements coalesce around abolitionism by the 1850s
The post Discuss the role of the Supreme Court in American history from 1800-1865 under Chief Justice John Marshall and Roger Taney. appeared first on Custom University Papers.