Civil Rights Acts
What are civil rights ?
What is the basic rights guaranteed by the government ?
When was the Constitution ratified ?
What is 1787 ?
What is the Pack and Crack method ?
What is the number of people must in each district must be equal and no splitting of cities or areas ?
What are civil liberties ?
What is individual laws protected by law ?
When was the Declaration of Independence ratified ?
What is July 4, 1776 ?
Who was Martin Luther King Jr. ?
What is a civil rights leader who worked to eliminate discrimination ?
How often are members of the House chosen ?
What is every 2 years ?
What is gerrymandering ?
What is the act of purposely drawing voting district boundaries to favor one political party (rigging an election) ?
What are the Bill of Rights ?
What are the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution ?
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence ?
What is to ensure that the people knew the freedoms and liberties they had ?
What was the goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ?
What is to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, origin, age, gender, religion ?
Explain the veto power.
What is a veto means that a bill will not be passed into law and will be sent back to where it came from ?
Why is gerrymandering unfair ?
What is because it turns the vote into one direction and allows a certain candidate to win over another ?
What is due process ?
What is to ensure fair procedures when the government passes laws restricting certain individuals ?
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence ?
Who is John Hancock ?
Who was Malcolm X ?
What is someone who supported black pride and separatism and agreed with the use of violence for self protection ?
What is the elastic clause ?
What is the clause that gives Congress the power to put into action any laws that are necessary ?
Why has gerrymandering not changed ?
What is because the people who do it almost always get reelected so no change is made ?
What is the lemon test ?
What is a test a law must pass in order for it to be declared constitutional ?
What are the 5 major components of the Declaration of Independence ?
What is the intro, the statement of rights, the list of grievances, the reproach to ¨British brethren¨, and the resolution of independence ?
What was the NAACP ?
What is an organization founded in 1909 that worked for racial equality ?
What can the President do to possibly get him impeached ?
What is committing high crimes, misdemeanors, treason, and bribery ?
the case where the Supreme Court decided the courts would decide redistricting cases where lines are drawn illegally.
What is Baker v. Carr ?
the case where formal prayer had been banned in schools, and then the government was told they could not make any religion an ´official´ religion
What is Engel v. Vitale ?
Who were the authors of the Declaration of Independence ?
What is Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston ?