First Amendment Cases
Tinker v. Des Moines said that public school students have this type of speech at school.
What is symbolic speech?
In Gideon v. Wainwright, Gideon did not have this when he went to court so he took his case to the SCOTUS.
What is a lawyer?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was the person trying to change the discrimination laws and was assassinated in 1968 trying to fight for Civil Rights.
Who is Martin Luther King?
This is the term for separating a group of people based on their race, gender, religion, age or ability.
What is segregation?
Wisconsin v. Yoder stated that this group of people had the right to freely exercise their religion and opt out of school after 8th grade.
What are the Amish?
In McDonald v. the City of Chicago, McDonald was allowed to own this because of the second amendment.
What is a firearm/gun?
In Obergefell v. Hodges, gay marriage was allowed due to the Equal Protection Clause of this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in this places.
What are public places and facilities?
This is the term for uniting groups of people and desegregating them.
What is integration?
In Engel v. Vitale, this is clause that stated prayer could not be forced upon students and staff at public schools.
In Mapp v. Ohio, Dollree Mapp felt like what rights were violated when police searched her home without a warrant.
What are her 4th Amendment rights?
This is the term for being prejudicial or showing hatred against the Jewish people.
What is anti-Semitism?
This is what was outlawed in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to voting?
This the term for breaking the law on purpose to show it is a bad law by doing things like sit-ins, marches and boycotts. Martin Luther King's group- the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)- used this tactic.
What is civil disobedience?
This SCOTUS case allowed for the freedom of the press, even if it will make a president or country look bad.
What is the New York Times v. the US?
This was the result of the Miranda v. Arizona SCOTUS case.
What is our 5th Amendment rights need to be read when are arrested?
This is the name for the law that gives people with disabilities rights.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This is the subject of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
What is housing (no discrimination in renting or buying houses)?
This is the group of people who fought in court to obtain civil rights for African-Americans. They helped bring the case of Brown v. the Board of Education to the Supreme Court.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Schenck was accused of breaking this law when he passed out pamphlets during WWI to avoid the draft in the case of Schenck v. the US.
What is the Espionage Act?
Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia were cases about this topic.
What is the death penalty or the 8th Amendment?
This is where the group AIM took over in order to protest for Native American rights.
What is Alcatraz?
This is the person who signed all of the Civil Rights Acts into law. Be specific.
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)?
This is the term where African-Americans can be more independent and not having to rely on whites to provide for them. The Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam advocated for this.
What is self-determination?