Civil Rights
Case that established the principle of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What are civil liberties?
Case that dealt with free speech that allowed students to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
Grants freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and to pretition.
What is the first amendment?
Used to limit the rights of states.
What is incorporation?
Law that mandated racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Clause that prevents the national government from sanctioning an official religion.
What is the establishment clause?
The Supreme Court found it unconstitutional to require school children to pray.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the eighth amendment?
Used to incorporate the Bill of Rights into state law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Guaranteed to former slaves by the Fourteenth Amendment.
What are citizenship rights?
Required to search an individual's person, home or vehicle.
What is due process?
An indigent defendant in a criminal trial is provided an attorney.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Women's right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Supreme Court decides incorporation on a case-by-case basis.
What is selective incorporation?
Guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Clause that prohibits the federal government from interfering with the right to hold religious beliefs.
What is the free exercise clause?
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press or fundamental liberties protected by the 14th Amendment.
What is Gitlow v. NY?
Gave power to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Case nationalizing the Bill of Rights.
What is Barron v. Baltimore?
The clause that defines our understanding of civil rights.
What is the equal protection clause?
A bill passed by Congress that applies to only one individual.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
Exercised prior restraint.
What is NYT v. US?
Guarantees the right to due process.
What is either the 5th or 14th Amendments?
These Bill of Rights have been incorporated.
What are the 1st through 8th amendments?