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Dual Federalism
National and state government work equally together within their own confinment, people like John Marshall help to improve the power of the national government. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
the McCulloch v. Maryland trial was held at the time John Marshall was cheif justice of the supreme court. This court case involved Maryland trying to tax the bank but Marshall agued that Maryland couold nt do it "The power to tax involves the power to desrtroy." Marshall won by saying it violented the Supremese clause of the constitution. -
Doctorine of Nullification
Southern state politicians believed that the states where able to cancel,nullify, and or set aside certain national laws if they went against a state's interests. -
Reconstruction Amendments
The reconstruction amendments are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution. These amendments abolished slavery, defined citizenship, and extended voting rights to the African American men. They set a national standard that all states had to follow. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Congress passed the Interstate Commerce act to help the Railroad industry. This was passed because railroad companies were gaining too much power, because people had realized it was the most effective means of travel companies started charging more and more. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to stop monopolies. It was also made to envoy rage fair competition in all industries. This act was used to break up a large number of monopolies in the early 1900s. This included the American Tobacco Company -
U.S. vs. E. C. Knight Company
In the Supreme Court case they ruled that a combination of sugar refining companies was not breaking the law of causing a monopoly. -
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Cooperative Federalaism
Cooperative federalism was based on the idea that all threee branches of government should work toether to work through major problems and to work togther -
The New Deal
When President Franklin Roosevelt responded to the stock market crash he can back strong with his new plan The New Deal. His new deal involved -
Develution
Delvolution is making national power smaller and state power bigger. The Contract with America pledged to reduce the size and power of the nationla government. some people hate devolution. -
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Creative Federealism
State and local projects were made by the national governmnet and had goals to stop poverty and welfare loss -
The Great Society
President Lyndon Johnson created a series of inivatives aimed at eliminating poverty and social inequality. Johnson called this approach to solving problems creative federalism. -
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New Federalism
Politicians such as Newt Gingrich said that the in order for the national government to have more power and to be more improved, they would need to give power to the states. -
The Reagan Years
President Ronald Reagan wanted to return power to the states. He wanted to change the American federal system. When President Reagan worked to make the size of the national government smaller and the states more independant.