The Founders would not help to get the Constitution passed without it being added.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
when a government only supports one official religion
What is an established religion?
100
first African American justice of the Supreme Court
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
100
Some states required this to prove that a person could read and right...kept many African Americans from being allowed to vote.
What was the literacy test?
100
gave women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
200
Speech, press, assembly and petition are all a part of this.
What is freedom of expression?
200
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments
What are the Civil War Amendments?
200
refused to give her seat on the bus to a white person
Who was Rosa Parks?
200
said that a person had the right to vote if his ancester had the right to vote
What was the grandfather clause?
200
gave citizens 18 years of age or older the right to vote in all elections
What is 26th Amendment?
300
supports our democracy, helps us grow as individuals, advances knowledge, and makes peaceful change in society possible
What are the benefits of freedom of expression?
300
stops state governments from unfairly discriminating against African Americans
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
famous civil rights leader who marched in Washington, D.C. in 1963
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
did away with the poll tax
What is the 24th amendment?
300
gave Africans Americans the right to vote
What is 15th Amendment?
400
the first words of the Bill of Rights protect this
What is freedom of religion?
400
means that state governments must not treat people differently unless there is a good and fair reason for doing so
What is meaning of equal protection of the laws?
400
only people in 1776 who were allowed to vote
Who were white men who owned property?
400
forced the states obey the Constitution in that the right to vote couldn't be denied because of a person's color or race
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
right to vote in a national election shall not be denied because a person fails to pay a poll tax, or any other tax.
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
500
The government may not unfairly or unreasonably limit your right to practice any religious beliefs you wish.
What is the free exercise clause?
500
case in which the parents of a little girl claimed that the school system treated their daughter unfairly...her right to equal protection of the laws was violated
What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
500
national fight to gain the right to vote for women was at convention in this state