Civil Rights Act
Constitution
Gerrymadering
Civil Liberties
Declaration of Independence
100
Who signed the civil rights act?
Lyndon B. Johnson
100
What amendment guarantees that "no soldier shall, in times of peace be quartered, without consent of the owner."
The Third Amendment
100
The main branch benefited by gerrymandering.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
Written statement that defames a person's character.
What is libel
100
The first continental congress met because of these.
What were the coercive acts?
200
When was Plessy vs Ferguson signed?
May 18, 1896.
200
The document that governed the U.S after the Revolutionary war?
The Articles of Confederation
200
The process of redistributing representatives in the House based on population numbers.
What is re-apportionment?
200
The first clause of the First amendment; it directs the national government not to sanction an official religion.
What is the establishment clause
200
This happened when the colonists starting expanding westward and the French didn't want them on their land.
What is the french and Indian War?
300
Who is the man in the picture?
Thurgood Marshall
300
What amendment guarantees the "right to bear arms".
2nd Amendment
300
The body that draws congressional districts for each state.
What is the state legislature?
300
The government-protected rights of individuals against discriminatory treatment (freedom against)
What is civil rights
300
These acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists after the tea party. The colonists called them the intolerable acts.
What are the coercive acts?
400
What was the name of the famous speech MLK gave?
"I Have a Dream"
400
Under the first amendment we have freedom of religion.
Which of the two case would effect the first amendment?
1. Mormons hold a meeting in the park
2. Government closed down a religious school in Dallas.
Mormons meeting in the park
400
Population numbers come from this, it is taken every 10 years.
What is the census?
400
Three-part test created by the Court for examining the constitutionality of religious establishment issues.
What is the Lemon Test
400
What were the 3 unalienable rights that Thomas Jefferson said are "endowed by their Creator"?
What kind of rights are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
500
What was the case Plessy vs Ferguson?
This was the case that started "Separate But Equal" in the north.
500
A tax placed on imported items from other countries.
A Tarriff
500
Drawing districts in order to favor a specific political party.
What is partisan gerrymandering?
500
Judicial doctrine through which most of the Bill of Rights are mad to applicable to the states via the 14th amendment
What is judicial review
500
Thomas Jefferson said in the declaration of independence that the role of the government was this.
What is to secure our inalienable rights.