Supreme Court Cases
This Supreme Court case ruled that capital punishment is unconstitutional for juveniles under 18.
What is Roper v. Simmons?
This amendment abolished slavery and comes before the 14th amendment
What is the 13th amendment?
The film that summarized the tensions of increased migrations in the 1950’s
What is West Side Story?
This Supreme Court case affirmed that children born in the U.S. to immigrant parents are citizens.
What is United States v. Wong Kim Ark?
The final step in the naturalization process
What is taking the oath of allegiance?
In this case, the Court ruled that excluding women from Virginia Military Institute violated the Equal Protection Clause.
What is United States v. Virginia?
The 14th amendment defines this group as citizens of the United States
Who are all person born or naturalized in the United States?
The forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s to lands west of the Mississippi is known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This act of 1924 severely limited immigration from Asia.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This process involves an immigrant applying to become a citizen of the United States.
What is naturalization?
This case upheld the Boy Scouts’ right to exclude members based on sexual orientation, citing freedom of association.
What is Boy Scouts of America v. Dale?
This landmark supreme court case used the 14th amendment to end racial segregation in public schools
What is Brown v Board of Education?
During this period, millions of African Americans moved from the rural South to the urban North.
What is the Great Migration?
This case ruled that Japanese individuals were ineligible for U.S. citizenship under naturalization laws.
What is Ozawa v. United States?
An immigrant must pass this test to demonstrate knowledge of U.S. history and government to become a citizen.
What is the citizenship test?
This landmark decision established that the government cannot regulate a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy during the first trimester.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This clause in the 14th amendment prevents states from denying fundamental rights to their citizens
What is the equal protection clause?
Many women in Puerto Rico were forced to complete this action by the US department of Health
What is sterilization?
This case ruled that people of Indian descent were not considered "white" under U.S. naturalization laws.
What is Thind v. United States?
The first step to becoming a U.S. citizen involves obtaining this type of legal status.
What is lawful permanent residency (green card)?
In this case, the Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant to search a cell phone seized during an arrest.
What is Riley v. California?
The 14th amendment was ratified in this year, two years after the end of the civil war.
What is 1868?
This term refers to the flow of people from Latin America to the U.S. for better economic opportunities in recent decades.
What is modern migration?
This act of 1882 significantly restricted immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
To be eligible for U.S. citizenship, an applicant must have continuously lived in the United States for this minimum number of years as a permanent resident (in most cases)
What is five years?