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AMERICAN PATHWAYS ACTIVITY
Creating a Thematic Study Guide
Below is a time table of the key events in the history of the Supreme Court. Using
your textbook, write a brief description or summary of each of the events up to
1850 on the lines provided. As you read further in your textbook, return to the
time table to fill in information about later events.
GOVERNMENT: THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
The Formation and Preservation of the Union, 1789–1865
Judiciary Act of 1789 ________________________________________________________________
Judiciary Act of 1801 ________________________________________________________________
Marbury v. Madison, 1803 __________________________________________________________
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 ________________________________________________________
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819 _______________________________________________
Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 ____________________________________________________________
Worcester v. Georgia, 1832 __________________________________________________________
Scott v. Sandford, 1857 ______________________________________________________________
Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South, 1865–1896
Texas v. White, 1869 ________________________________________________________________
Civil Rights Act of 1875, overturned, 1883 ______________________________________________
Industrial Expansion and Progressive Reforms, 1877–1920
Munn v. Illinois, 1877 ______________________________________________________________
The Wabash case, 1886 ______________________________________________________________
The Northern Securities case, 1904 ____________________________________________________
Lochner v. New York, 1905 __________________________________________________________
Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ______________________________________________________________
Brandeis joins Court, 1916 __________________________________________________________
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 ____________________________________________________________
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The New Deal, 1933–1941
NIRA declared unconstitutional, 1935 ________________________________________________
AAA declared unconstitutional, 1936 __________________________________________________
FDR’s court-packing plan, 1937 ______________________________________________________
Expansion and Protection of Americans’ Rights, 1944–present
Korematsu v. United States, 1944 ____________________________________________________
Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice, 1953 ______________________________________________
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954____________________________________________________
Boynton v. Virginia, 1960 ____________________________________________________________
Mapp v. Ohio, 1961 ________________________________________________________________
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963__________________________________________________________
Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964 ____________________________________________________________
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966 ____________________________________________________________
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 1971 ____________________________
Roe v. Wade, 1973 __________________________________________________________________
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978 __________________________________
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