Civil Liberties
Protections against government action.
What are Civil Liberties?
Positive acts of the government to guarantee equal protection for everyone.
What are civil rights?
Principle that the government must act equally, fairly, and according to established laws.
What is Due Process?
Guaranteed the vote to any race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Law that outlawed voting discrimination.
Voting rights act of 1965?
Guarantees the rights to speech, press, and religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Addition to the constitution that guarantees due process from the federal government.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Guaranteed the vote to women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Law that gave American Indians the right to vote.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
Guarantees the right to have weapons.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The legal principle used to justify racial segregation.
What is separate but equal?
Addition to the constitution that guarantees due process from the state governments?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Allowed residents of Washington D.C. to vote for president.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
The document that gives the federal government it's power.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Addition to the Constitution to protect the basic rights held by Americans.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Supreme Court case that made racial segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Process of Supreme Court cases that connected the the 14th Amendment to each liberty in the Bill of Rights so that the states would be limited by them.
What is incorporation?
In 1964 it banned poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
The limiting of government by separating power into different branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
Person most responsible for getting the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
Who is Thomas Jeferson?
Congressional act that outlawed discrimination.
Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Liberty that no one should be tried for the same crime twice?
What is Double Jeopardy?
In 1971 it gave 18 year olds the right to vote.
What is the 26th amendment?
The year the last state dropped property requirements to vote.
What is 1880?