Civil Rights Acts
Court Case that determined that slaves are property and do not have rights
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
Any kind of addition to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
Restrictions the government has put on Gerrymandering
What is Pack and Crack?
This part of the constitution lists out the civil liberties for citizens of the U.S
What is the Bill of Rights?
They claimed independence from this country
What is Britain?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
Powers only given to the states
What are reserved powers?
This person draws the districts for the state
Who is the state governor?
This right guarantees that people can freely say and think what they want
What is the freedom of speech?
The declaration of independence led to this war
What is the revolutionary war?
Court case that ruled separate but equal is constitutional
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Both national and state government powers
What are concurrent powers?
Every 10 years, the government does this to determine the amount of representatives per state
What is the census?
This group pushed for a Bill of Rights in the constitution
Who were the anti-federalists?
This was the current king that the colonists ran from
Who is King George III
Court case that says schools that are separate but equal are unconstitutional
What is Brown v Board?
They needed 9 out of 13 states to agree to do this to the constitution
What is ratification?
Gerrymandering affects this part of the government
What is the Legislative Branch?
This is the first documents that listed out all the civil liberties for its citizens
What is the Magna Carta?
This part of the declaration of independence highlighted what their beliefs of what a government should look like
What is the statement of rights?
Two very influential leaders of the civil rights movement
Who are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X?
Includes a House of Representatives and a Senate
What is the Legislative Branch?
Purposefully drawing districts to favor a political party
What is Gerrymandering?
December 15, 1791
When was the Bill of Rights ratified?
This group of people wrote the declaration of independence
Who were the founding fathers?