The Supremes
The Supreme Court ruled that Native Children should stay within the tribe if possible, upholding this legislation.
ICWA: Indian Child Welfare Act 1978
This man was a young person during the sit-ins and the march over the bridge for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, then he went on to become a Congressperson from Georgia who lead that way on voting rights.
John Lewis
This is the year that the Voting Rights Act was passed.
1965
This term is used to describe efforts to limit the number of votes cast in a variety of ways.
VOTER SUPPRESSION
This was the commonly used name for the set of laws that mandated segregation based on race from the 1870s to the mid-1900s.
JIM CROW LAWS
In this case, the Supreme Court asked parties to address the question of whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was constitutional
Louisiana v. Callais (2025)
These two Supreme Court Justices voted with the liberals in the case of Allen v. Mulligan in which the Supreme Court said that Alabama had to have two majority-minority districts.
JOHN ROBERTS & BRETT KAVANAUGH
Under Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, states that had a history of discrimination (those that are red on the map below), had to seek this from the federal government before enacting new laws related to voting.
PRECLEARANCE (which came from the U.S. Attorney General or a 3-judge federal Court in Washington, D.C.)
The SAVE ACT is being criticized by some for its project impact that would hinder some in certain groups from voting
- Married women
- young and elderly people
- low-income people
- trans people
- people with disabilities
The U.S. Constitution gives this entity the right to make laws controlling the time, place, and manner of voting.
STATES (And Congress is allowed to regulate)
This 1954 case ended segregation in schools.
Brown v Board of Education
This Alaska woman refused to sit on the White side ofthe theater, helping to end segregation
Alberta Schenck 1944
This law, passed in 1945 in Alaska, was the first of its kind to pass in the U.S.
Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945
In 1925, Alaska Natives were denied their voting rights due to this legal requirement in order to vote.
Literacy tests (in English)
This is the term for segregation that is mandated by law.
DE JURE SEGREGATION
Which of the following is NOT true about the case of Students for a Fair Admission v. Harvard College?
a)The plaintiffs were Asian American students who were denied admission to Harvard.
b)The holding said that Harvard violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
c)The Court said Harvard could not have a check box for race.
d)The case was decided in 2023.
e)The case overturned Brown v. Bd. of Education
e)The case overturned Brown v. Bd. of Education
Which of the following is NOT true about William Paul? He was:
a)the first Alaska Native person to become an attorney
b) the first Alaska Native person to serve in the AK state legislature
c) Created “cut-outs” to be placed over ballots to allow illiterate Alaska Native people to vote.
d) Was effective at turning out Alaska Native people to vote in South East Alaska.
e) He lived in Nome.
e) He lived in Nome.
This U.S. Supreme Court case held that the map used in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was outdated resulting in no states being subjected to preclearance because there was no longer a map to determine which states were subjected to preclearance.
Shelby County v. Holder (2013) 5-4
This is the approximate number of restrictive Voting laws that were put into place in the 10 years after Shelby County v. Holder.
a) 25
b) 50
c) 75
d) 100
e) 300
d) 100
These words describe the process by which Congress determined what states would be red on the map that required preclearance.
COVERAGE FORMULA (which included states that either 1) had a test or device as a prerequisite to voting on Nov. 1, 1964; or 2) had less than 50% voting registration during the 1964 presidential election.
This is the case in which the Supreme Court held that Congress was allowed to have a law banning segregation by a hotel as part of the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. U.S.
Where did Elizabeth Petrovitch make this statement and why?
"I would not have expected that I, who am barely out of savagery, would have to remind gentlemen with 5,000 years of recorded civilization behind us of our rights".
February 5, 1945, before the Alaska Territorial Senate in Juneau, Alaska
This is the section of the VRA that is at issue in the case we did oral arguments about, Louisiana v. Callais; Louisiana v. Robinson.
SECTION 2
Which of the following was NOT one of the means of barring African Americans from voting during the Jim Crow era?
*Literacy tests
*Poll tax
*Photo ID requirement
*Property ownership requirement
*Photo ID requirement
This is the adjective to describe what had happened in Allan v. Milligan when what could have been one majority-minority district was instead split into two.
CRACKED