Court Cases
Segregation in the public schools is unconstitutional.
Brown Vs Board of Education
The right of voting.
Suffrage
Legal process through which immigrants become U.S. citizens.
Naturalization
Organization that promotes peaceful coexistence and worldwide cooperation.
Unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba in 1961 by U.S. sponsored troops.
Bay of Pigs
Ruled that a person's Fifth Amendment rights begin at the time of arrest.
Miranda Vs Arizona
A country's plan for dealing with other countries of the world.
Foreign Policy
The process to have a higher court review the result of a trial court or lower court.
Appellate Process
Judicial branch of the UN. Deals with disputes between countries and war crimes
World Court (International Court of Justice)
Protests by Massachusetts farmers over tax collections and judgments for debt. State militia crushed the rebels.
Shay's Rebellion
Court ruling forced President Nixon to turn over secret tapes of White House conversations.
United States Vs. Nixon
An attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting over any other.
Bias
Court order that requires the government to bring a prisoner to court and explain why he or she is being held.
Habeas Corpus
13 day confrontation over the Soviet Union building missile bases in Cuba. The United States decided on a military blockade - they would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. initially tried to remain neutral, but German submarines attacked U.S. merchant ships making this impossible.
WW 1
Establishes the Supreme Court's power of judicial review (deciding whether laws passed by Congress are constitutional).
Marbury Vs. Madison
The imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial.
Internment
Powers that are shared by a state and federal government.
Concurrent Powers
Security alliance to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org)
A diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981), after a group of Iranian students took over the US Embassy in Tehran.
Iran Hostage Crisis
Establishes that the 1st Amendment does not require schools to promote particular types of student speech (specifically about a school newspaper).
Hazelwood Vs. Kuhlmeier
Branch of the government, created by Article I in the Constitution, that makes the laws.
Legislative Branch
Powers granted to the states.
Reserved Powers
Designed to remove tariff barriers between the United States, Canada, and Mexico over a fifteen year time span.
North American Fair Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults.
In re Gault