Civil Rights
This Supreme Court Case decision gave the thumbs up to Jim Crow.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Supreme Court decided in the case Texas vs. Johnson, that this act was included in symbolic speech.
What is burning the US Flag?
What is the right to assemble?
This government in the new United States contained no executive branch.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The First Article of the Constitution covers this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This Supreme Court Case called school segregation unconstitutional.
What was Brown vs. the Board of Education?
In the Supreme Court Case Engle vs. Vitale, this was outlawed in schools as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
What is prayer?
These Amendments to the Constitution are known as the "Civil Rights Amendments".
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This groundbreaking document took power from the King of England by granting power to the nobility in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This is a power expressly given to Congress.
What is an express power?
This Amendment kept state governments from denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The right to privacy was at the center of this Supreme Court case, one of the most controversial in recent history.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
This Amendment helped to enfranchise Black Americans by outlawing poll taxes.
What is the 14th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation made protecting the American people difficult as it had to as states for soldiers. This event that very clear.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
The McCullough vs. Maryland decision allowed Congress to create a national bank. This was not a power specifically included in the Constitution, making it one of these powers instead.
What is an implied power?
This program was created to get black Americans registered to vote in the south.
What was Freedom Summer?
The decision in this Supreme Court Case compels law enforcement to inform people accused of a crime of their rights.
What is Miranda vs. Arizona?
Although, he believed it to be superfluous, this founding father introduced the Bill of Rights to assure the Constitution's ratification.
Who was James Madison?
This document created a Constitutional Monarchy in England. It was signed by King William and Queen Mary.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The Judicial Branch is discussed in Article III of the Constitution. A main power of the branch, Judicial Review was solidified by the decision in this Supreme Court Case.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
This law was nullified as a result of the decision in Dred Scott vs. Sandford.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Prior to Mapp vs. Ohio, these courts had been admitting evidence found in illegal searches.
What are state courts?
This Amendment moved the average voting age in the US from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This was the first document setting up self rule in the British colonies in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Article of the Constitution lays out the process to amend the Constitution.
What is the Article V?