Civil Rights Acts
Prohibited discrimination in public places, allowed for integration of schools, and made employment discrimination illegal.
What are the Civil Rights Acts?
Introduction to the Constitution
What is the preamble?
Drawing of district boundaries to favor a certain party
What is gerrymandering?
Legal constitutional protection against government
What are Civil Liberties?
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Women were able to gain
What was equal pay and childcare?
Articles in the constitution
Seven
A count of the country's population every 10 years
What is the census?
First Amendment stating the government will not create or support an official state church
What is the establishment clause?
To declare independence from Britain
Why was it necessary?
Equal protection clause provides no state will make or enforce any law that denies any persons within its borders the equal protection of the laws
What was the 14th Amendment?
Elects president and vise-president
Who is the electoral college?
Area served by one of the members in the House of Representatives
What is the congressional district?
Government can't interfere with speech unless a clear and present danger is seen
What is the Clear and Present danger test?
Unalienable rights
What were rights that couldn't be taken away?
Strengthened voting rights (no poll taxes/ no literacy tests/ no white only primaries)
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
made it so the president could only serve 2 terms in office, no longer than 10 years
What was the 22 Amendment?
Unequal amount of representatives in a legislative position
What is malapportionment?
Segregation in schools that happens although it is not required by law.
what is De facto segregation?
Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence
Who was the Second Continental Congress?
Ordered all executive agencies to require federal contractors "to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated" without discrimination.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
Justices in the Supreme Court
Nine
Court may decide redistricting cases where lines are drawn illegally
What was Baker v. Carr?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded to abolish segregation and discrimination
What is the NAACP?
English philosopher that believed the three purposes of government were life, liberty and property
Who was John Locke?