2. What Happened???
• Gerald made an inappropriate phone call to
his neighbor who called the police and the
sheriff took Gerald away without telling his
parents and tried him without a lawyer are
witnesses.
3. The Supreme Courts Decision
• Guilty as an adult for violation of ARS.
Maximum prison time 2 months and a fine of
$5- $50
6. What Happened???
• The Colloch bank didn’t want to pay taxes and
Maryland tried to put a tax on the branch of
the bank of the US and they refused to they
took it to court.
11. What Happened???
• NY state law gave Robert Livingston and
Robert Fulton the right to operate steam
boats on waters within state jurisdiction.
Odgen had a license from the state of NY to
navigate between NY and New Jersey. Gibbons
and Odgen were in competition with each
other. Gibbons also had permission to use
waterways. NY denied Gibbons and he sued
Odgen.
12. The Supreme Court’s Decision
• Gibon’s lost the case and appealed to the
supreme court which reversed the decision.
13. The Impact on the Country
• Interstate commerces was freed from various
restrictions imposed by numerous state
governments.
Article
•Article 1 section 8
15. What happened???
• Dred Scott argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857. It
involved the then bitterly contested issue of the status of
slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred Scott, a
black slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S.
army surgeon, was taken by his master from Missouri, a
slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and thence to Fort
Snelling (now in Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where
slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise. There
he married before returning with Dr. Emerson to Missouri
in 1838. After Emerson's death, Scott sued Emerson's
widow for freedom for himself and his family (he had two
children) on the ground that residence in a free state and
then in a free territory had ended his bondage.
16. The Supreme Court’s Decision
• The court reflected the attitudes of the time
and in a 7-2 decision ruled against Scott. The
most important point in this case was that
blacks were not considered people but
property and since they were property they
could not petition for rights.
• Scott lost the case.
17. How the Country Changed
• Chief Justice Taney wrote that it was "too clear to
dispute, that the enslaved African race were not
intended by the men that signed the Declaration
of Independence in 1776 to be included as
citizens of the nation they sought to establish.”
The government stated that Africans were
property.
• The ruling, which helped to precipitate the Civil
War, has long been considered one of the court's
great "self-inflicted" wounds.
20. What Happened???
• Plessy joined a white only train car. He was
asked to leave because he was 1/8 black but
he was classified as black due to a law in
Louisiana in 1890. He refused to leave the car
and was arrested and sent to jail.
21. The Supreme Court’s
• The judge presiding over the case ruled that
Louisiana had that right.
22. Impact on the Country
• This case helped set the doctrine for separate
but equal, but it also made move states in the
South become segregated.
Amendment
•14, Black’s are citizens
