<p>Lets do like a chain thread going on listing the different acts... Here's how i want to play this game</p>
<p>I will say something that has to do with a date, treaty, w/e:
For example, When did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?</p>
<p>And the next person will answer by saying 1492 (hopefully) and ask another question for another person to answer! WHOOOOOOOOT!! okay here we go!</p>
<p>Which Supreme Court case established a judicial review which gave the supreme court the decision of allowing if a certain thing is constitutional or unconstitutional?</p>
<p>Good idea, and I have no idea for that last question. I'll be ready to answer others though! Let's try and make them actual test questions, as in don't ask obscure stuff that we don't really need to know.</p>
<p>I can answer a few parts of that...it dealt with teaching evolution in public schools during the early 1900s...Williams Jenning Bryan was the prosecutor...the verdict was kinda inconsequential because the proceedings got ridiculous and wound up discrediting both sides. No idea where it took place though, I would guess somewhere in the South.</p>
<p>Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of that stuff</p>
<p>Which colony was referred to as a "city on a hill", and who coined the term?</p>
<p>the massachusetts bay colony (puritans)...cant remember the guys name...john winthrop <em>i think</em>
just to answer more than is asked for: it meant the colony should be a role model of righteous civilization for the rest of the world to see</p>
<p>and the Scopes trial was either tennessee or kentucky, i think tennessee</p>
<p>i dont think Bryan was a prosecutor, he was just the prosecutions star witness, he testified about the bible; Clarence Darrow (already famous lawyer for the defendants, not sure about his name either) tricked Bryan into contradicting himself on the stand, and Bryan, thoroughly embarrassed, died of a stroke a few days later (not really important, but kind of interesting)</p>
<p>ps. the prosecution was attacking a teacher for teaching evolution instead of creation, the defendants believed evolution should be taught</p>
<p>the case is important because it has to deal with the seperation of church and state, although it didnt really have much of an impact</p>
<p>and my question: Who was Peggy Eaton, and why was she important?</p>
<p>Short story (meaning, I don't remember everything exactly :p): Calhoun's wife led the Washington women socialits in ostracizing this Peggy Eaton, who had an unsavory reputation because of her beauty and lowly birth. Jackson took it upon himself to help Eaton out, supposedly because he still remembered the attacks on his wife during the election of 1828. Anyway, what happened was that Van Buren somehow got on Jackson's good side, while Calhoun, who was the vice-president at the time, wasn't doing so well in Jackson's mind. In the next election, Van Buren was on Jackson's ticket as vp. Thus, the Peggy Eaton affair sort of caused Van Buren to become president.</p>
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<p>Question:</p>
<p>We all know what the Monroe Doctrine is, but when it was institued, it was ridiculous. However, in retrospect, many argue that it is a prime example of the author's brilliance.</p>
<p>During what president was the Doctrine made, what did it really say, who was the author, why was it ridiculous at the time, and why was it brilliant?</p>
<p>edit: I guess since we're doing mc questions, just do the non-subjective questions.</p>
<p>It was during Monroe's presidency, written by John Quincy Adams, said that the western hemisphere was closed to further colonization by European powers....</p>
<p>...and the rest? Fill me in. :D </p>
<p>My turn! Question: What Supreme Court case did Brown v. Board of Education directly reverse?</p>
<p>James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine after the War of 1812. No one really won this war, so America was feeling bolder as they didn't lose. It was a statement saying that no European countries could colonize America's Latin American colonies. At the time, no other country really reacted to the Monroe Doctrine. America didn't know that this doctrine would later solve possible future wars (Britain/Venezuela), and give America an "extra hand" when fighting in its own wars. </p>
<p>Oh dear..I hope that's a decent answer. </p>
<p>Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's administration because it _______ ?</p>
<p>**Edit: Emmery's answer is Plessy v. Ferguson. :)</p>
<p>Supreme Court said that seperate is inherently unequal. I think that's verbatim, actually, or very close.</p>
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<p>The Monroe Doctrine was ridiculous because America did not have the power to keep European powers our of the Western Hemisphere! However, supposedly, Adams realized that it was in Britain's best interest for the Eurpoean powers to stay out. The idea is said to be that Adams was thinking in advance, when America did have the power to keep people out. So what happens is that European powers stay out initially because of Britain, yet it seems like it was due to the Monroe Doctrine</p>
<p>Yeah. And your answer is because Spain recognized U.S. borders at the Mississippi and, ummm, allowed the U.S. to ship goods via New Orleans, which helped western farmers.</p>
<p>I think... </p>
<p>XD Here's another one: </p>
<p>Why did Khrushchev (the Soviet president) cancel the summit meeting with Eisenhower in 1960?</p>