This meeting occurring in 1848 is often thought of as the formal beginning of the Women's Suffrage movement.
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What are the Jim Crow Laws?
This is the name of a series of racist and discriminatory laws adopted in the South after the Civil War and in contradiction to the Reconstruction Amendments. They discriminated against African Americans and prevented them from voting.
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What is the right to trial by jury?
The right to be judged guilty or innocent by a group of other citizens.
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What is the 1st amendment?
This amendment contains the freedom of speech, press and assembly, among others
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What is hate speech?
words that attack, threaten, or insult a group; usually based on origin, race, color, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.
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The 19th amendment gave women the gave women the right to vote. What was the 19th amendment originally called?
The 19th amendment was originally called the Susan B. Anthony amendment.
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What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
This clause from one of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution was ratified in 1868 and states that the government must treat all people in the same way.
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What is protection against cruel and unusual punishment?
This protection, laid out in the 8th amendment, protects people from torture or coercion.
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What is the 3rd amendment?
This amendment prohibits the government from forcing citizens to keep soldiers in their homes.
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What is the obscenity test?
This restriction on vulgar speech has historically been hard to enforce because everyone's definition of this is a little different.
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Daughters of Liberty?
This orginization supported the boycott of British goods. They urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce other goods that were previously available only from Britain. They believed that way, the American colonies would become economically independent.
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What are Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes?
These two discriminatory voting practices prevented African American's from voting by placing obstacles between them and the ballot box.
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What is the 5th Amendment?
This amendment protects people from being required to give incriminating evidence against themselves. Often referred to as, "I plead the ________."
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What is the 4th amendment?
This amendment protects the people themselves, their houses, and their documents from "unreasonable search or seizure."
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What is the Slander test?
This limit on free speech prohibits speech about a person or group that is known to be false and could damage an otherwise good reputation.
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What is the 19th Amendment?
After being voted down multiple times this Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.
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What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This Supreme Court case from 1896 established the separate but equal doctrine that wasn't overturned until 1954 in the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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What is double jeopardy?
This term is not a game but refers to the protection in the 5th Amendment against be re-tried for the same offense.
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What is the 15th amendment?
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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What is symbolic speech?
This type of protected 'speech' is actually an act - usually a public action meant to demonstrate a political viewpoint. Examples include burning flags or draft cards.
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What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
This amendment to the constitution would have forced the government to treat women the same as men. It was proposed many times starting in 1923 but was ultimately defeated in 1972 when it failed to get enough states to ratify.
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What is non-violent protest?
This is the practice championed by Martin Luther King Jr. whereby demonstrations, marches, and civil disobedience illustrated the brutality of segregation and claimed the moral high ground for Civil Rights.
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What is the writ of Habeas Corpus?
Known as the "Great Writ" this is an old legal principle requiring the government to produce the 'body' of a person held in detention into a court of law to justify his or her captivity.
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What were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
These three Civil War amendments gave freedom, citizenship and suffrage to African Americans
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This restriction on free speech is issued by a court to prevent information about a trial from becoming public.