Marbury v. Madison    Tariff Crisis 1816     Missouri Compromise    Election of 1824

 Indian Removal Act of 1830      Jackson's Bank War

Suggested Resources

Databases and eBooks:

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Gale in Context: U.S. History - A database of articles, reference books, and multimedia. Check out the nice case overview of Marbury v. Madison and the Event Overview article of the Missouri Compromise. Articles contain suggestions for further reading at the bottom.

Gale OneFile:  High School - A database of magazine and journal articles, books, news, and multimedia. A brief example journal article is Troubling Tariffs. Notice you can search for more information by visiting the related articles on the right, or searching new terms you find, like Nullification Crisis 1933,  in the articles you read. 

Gale in Context: High School - Similar to the one above, but includes different publications within it, Gale in Context: High School is a database of articles, primary sources, and reference books. An example reference article is the Indian Removal Act from the Gale Ency. of U.S. History. 

Britannica via KCLS - Click "Middle and High School Students > Databases > Scroll to Britannica Online. Login with your 417+student number and the last four digits of your student number.  There are entries for many of your crises, for example the Election of 1824


Reference eBooks - Search for your crisis in our collection of eBooks at https://go.gale.com/ps/dispBasicSearch.do?userGroupName=inglemoor&prodId=GVRL

Free Web Recommendations

Adding site:.edu or site:.gov to your search terms will provide only university and government/archives sites in your results list. Try that to get more scholarly results. Primary sources is how historians research history!


The Panic of 1873 and Its Aftermath: 1873-1876 by Northern Illinois University. (takes a bit to load).

Marbury v. Madison from our National Archives.

Election of 1824 documents and explanations by the Library of Congress. Use the links on the left to explore additional documents. 

Indian Removal Act primary source documents from the Library of Congress. Click on the navigation links on the left to many online resources and documents. 

Bank War by the History Channel - A great overview of the precursors and the aftermath.