Civil rights Acts
What did the term "separate but equal" mean?
Laws in the South making African Americans drink from different water fountains, eat at different restaurants, and not be able to sit on the front of the bus.
Who was known as the father of the constitution?
James madison
Packing?
Putting a lot of voters all in the same district
What are civil liberties?
laws that protect people from the government; including freedom of speech
Was the Declaration of Independence intended to be a formal declaration of war?
No. The war started a year before the Declaration of Independence was written
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
leader of the civil rights movement. He gave his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington.
Checks and Balances?
each branch of government has the power to check or limit the power of the other branches
Cracking?
separating city into multiple other districts.
What is the establishment clause?
Congress can not make any laws that establish a specific religion for the United States
The Declaration of Independence refers to rights as being unalienable. What does "unalienable" mean?
cannot be surrendered
Voting Acts of 1965
The laws passed that said you didn't have to pay or pass a test to vote. 1.5 million African Americans were registered after this event.
The Illinois Constitution was adopted in what year?
1970
What needs to be taken every ten years to help with district lines?
The census
Probable cause?
The reason an officer has to arrest or search someone
Why were taxes an ongoing source of conflict for the American colonists?
They were taxed without having representation in Parliament.
Poll Tax
Making a tax on voting so people who couldn't afford it could not vote.
The constitution is?
The supreme law of the Unites States
congressional district?
The geographic area that is served by one member in the House of Representatives
exclusionary rule?
illegally obtained evidence can't be used in court
Which reason best explains why this grievance was included in the Declaration?
Trade focused on generating income for the Crown only
What are civil Rights?
Non-political basic rights of liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.
What bill is contained in the constitution?
The bill of rights
Incumbent?
A person already holding an elective office
"Clear-and-Present-Danger" test
Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1919, it held that Congress could punish only speech that created a "clear and present danger" of bring about the actions that Congress is authorized to prevent.
What describes a natural right?
the rights that cannot, or should not, be taken away