Civil Rights Acts
Policies designed to protect people from discriminatory treatment by government, business, or individuals
What are Civil Rights?
This document was ratified on September 17, 1787.
What is the United States Constitution?
a political group tries to change a voting district to create a result that helps them or hurts the group who is against them
What is Gerrymandering?
Who do civil liberties protect you from?
The government
Why was the Declaration written for?
What is to declare freedom from Britain.
Supreme Court rules that slaves are property and therefore do not have rights
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford?
How can the Constitution be changed?
Only by the amendments.
who is in charge of gerrymandering?
State Legislature.
What is the term used to describe the fact that the government cannot put you on trial for a crime that you have already been found not guilty of?
What is Double Jeopardy?
Why was July 4, 1776, declared "Independence Day?"
What is this was the day the colonies declared their independence/freedom from Britain
led no violent protests/marches in the south that quickly gained momentum across America
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
How long did it take to write the Constitution?
4 months
When voters who tend to vote for one political party are grouped into a small number of the state's districts is called...
What is "packing?"
What is the term used to describe when the government goes through a procedure (usually a trial) to see if a person is guilty of a crime?
What is Due Process?
Members of the _________________________ signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is 2nd Continental Congress
Black Power (advocated for a forceful resistance from integrating into white society)
What is Malcome X?
The Constitutional Convention took place to write a document to replace which existing document?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Court Case that had to do with gerrymandering. (1962)
the Court held that the failure of the legislature of Tennessee to reapportion state legislative districts to take into account significant changes in district populations had effectively reduced the weight of votes cast in more populous districts.
What is Baker vs. Carr?
List the three civil liberties that were in the U.S. Constitution before the Bill of Rights was added
the right to a writ of habeas corpus; the government cannot create ex post facto laws; the government cannot issue a bill of attainder
Why was the Declaration of Independence a dangerous idea?
if the Americans lost the Revolutionary War, the people who signed the Declaration of Independence would be accused of treason (working against their own country and killed.)
- Made racial discrimination illegal is most private and public places
- Forbids Employment discrimination based on race
- Strengthened voting rights (no poll taxes/no literacy tests/no white-only primaries)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What are the 3 parts of the Constitution?
What are the Preamble, the 7 Articles, and the 27 amendments
When voters are divided across multiple districts until they are outnumbered by a majority of voters who will vote in the opposite way is called...
What is "cracking"?
List three civil liberties that are found in the 8th Amendment.
the government can’t punish you in a cruel or unusual way; the government can’t make you pay an unfair amount of bail; the government can’t make you pay an unfairly high fine
Why was the Declaration of Independence necessary?
The colonists needed it to prove that they had the right to break away from Britain and form their own nation? Without it, the colonists wouldn't have been able to have liberty.