Amendments
Legislation
Cases
Discrimination
Other
100
Actions that express a point of view
What is symbolic speech?
100
Legislation that ended "Jim Crow"
What is Civil Rights Act 1964?
100
THE case about school desegration
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Sometimes called "reverse discrimination"
What is affirmative action?
100
the three clauses in the 14th amendment
What are equal protection, due process and privileges and immunities?
200
Where you'd find a right to counsel
What is 6th Amendment?
200
One obstacle states used to undermine the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is poll tax, literacy tests, etc.
200
The difference between the right granted in Roe v. Wade and the one in Planned Parenthood v. Casey
What is the difference between strict scrutiny and undue burden?
200
Title IX
What is legislation promoting equality for women?
200
Wall of Separation
What is the goal in the Establishment Clause of keeping church and state separate?
300
Latin terms that mean "in reality" and "by law"
What are de facto and de jure?
300
The first case in which the Court finds a constitutional right to privacy
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
300
Jim Crow Laws
What the system of government-sanctioned racial discrimination?
300
The significance of the grandfather clause in US political history
What is use as a way to prevent African Americans from voting?
400
The number of years between the passage of African-Amercian suffrage and women's suffrage.
What is 50?
400
This legislation guaranteed equal educational opportunities for women.
What is Title 9 of the Education Reform Act?
400
The first case in which the Supreme Court upheld a case of gender discrimination
What is Reed v. Reed? (Challenged an 1864 law that males were preferred as administrators of a child's estate.)
400
Gideon v Wainwright
What is the case that gives a right to counsel if you can't afford one?
400
The exclusionary rule
What is the consequence for an illegal search under the 4th Amendment (or illegal interrogation under the 5th)?
500
The amendment most central to this class
What is the 10th?
500
Wrote The Feminine Mystique, re-establishing the feminist movement
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
Shaw v. Reno
What is the case that says congressional districting should not be based on racial composition?
500
Quota
What is an illegal form of implementing affirmative action? What is a set number requirement?
500
Case that says separate and equal is OK
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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