Amendments
First Amendment Freedoms
What is freedom of speech/press/religion/association/etc.
Brown v. Board of Education result
What is desegregation of schools?
Plessy v. Ferguson result
What is segregation being legal?
Segregation that occurs without laws enforcing it.
What is de facto segregation?
Discrimination and unfair treatment based on race
What is racism?
Fifth Amendment Protection
What is no self incrimination?
(double jeopardy, grand jury, federal due process)
Texas v. Johnson issue
What is symbolic speech?
(flag burning is protected)
The Dred Scott decision
What denied African Americans citizenship?
Refusing to follow laws that one believes are unethical or wrong.
What is civil disobedience?
The Fifteenth Amendment
What are voting rights for African Americans?
Sixth Amendment guarantee
What is the right to a fair trial?
(speedy public trial with an impartial jury, government will supply a lawyer if needed)
Korematsu v. United States question
What is Japanese internment?
(essentially legalized racism)
Miranda v. Arizona result
What are Miranda rights?
(Police must read you your rights)
The part of the 14th Amendment that requires states to apply the law the same way for one person that they would for another person in the same circumstances
What is the equal protection clause?
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette issue
What is a mandatory Pledge of Allegiance recitation?
Fourteenth Amendment
What is the state due process clause?
(citizenship for African Americans)
Tinker v. Des Moines
What are student's rights?
(symbolic speech in school)
Engel v. Vitale decision
What is banning "official" prayer in schools?
Segregation laws aimed mainly at African Americans that were passed in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What are Jim Crow laws?
New Jersey v. T.L.O. issue
What are searches at school?
(student was searched by administration)
What is women's suffrage?
The Lemon test
(Lemon v. Kurtzman)
What requires that laws have a secular purpose, neither advance nor inhibit religion, and do not entangle the government in religion?
(name at least one)
Katz v. United States result
What is a right to privacy?
Following established and complete legal procedures.
What is due process?
The legal process of giving up one's citizenship
What is expatriation?