SCOTUS rules!
Civil Rights Law
Civil Rights Movement
Foreign Concerns
State Department
100

In this case, based on Amendment 1, SCOTUS ruled that teachers and students have First Amendment rights in school.

Tinker v. Des Moines

100

This SCOTUS case resulted in the legal end of school segregation based on Amendment 14, Section 1.

Brown v. Board of Education

100

"Equal protection of the law" and "due process" may be found in Section one of this amendment.

Amendment 14

100

The republic of Ukraine is currently at war with this country that invaded it.

Russia

100

This is the title of an official in charge of an embassy.

Ambassador

200

In this case, the court ruled that the 6th Amendment right to an attorney extends to those accused of a felony who cannot afford one.

Gideon v. Wainwright

200

This Act of Congress, signed by President Johnson in 1964, resulted in the enforcement of Amendment 14 to end state segregation laws.

Civil Rights Act of 1964.

200

The Kennedy Administration provided protection for this man as he became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi.

James Meredith

200

While at war with Hamas, Israel has also been bombed by this country.

Iran

200

This is the branch office of an embassy.

consulate

300

In this case, the court ruled that the 5th Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination and the 6th Amendment right to an attorney extend to providing an attorney during police questioning.

Escebedo v. IL

Daily Double

300

The SCOTUS ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 established the precedent that this type of state law was constitutional.

Jim Crow or Segregation laws

300

This young lady, a Fisk student, led sit-ins in Nashville and coordinated the Freedom Rides from Birmingham to Jackson.

Diane Nash

300

China claims that this small country is actually part of China.

Taiwan

300

This is the standard identification required for anyone travelling outside their own country.

passport

400

In this 7th Amendment case, SCOTUS ruled that the end manufacturer is liable for a faulty product.

McPherson v. Buick

400

The murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson led to the Selma to Montgomery March, which eventually pushed the passage of this important civil rights legislation which enforced the 15th Amendment.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Daily Double

400

This racist Public Safety Commissioner in Birmingham often ordered the beatings and arrests of Civil Rights protestors.

Bull Connor

400

Japan has come under threat by this dictatorship because of Japanese support for republics. 

North Korea

400

This is an official letter granting permission for an individual to travel to a particular foreign country.

Visa

500

In this early SCOTUS case, "judicial review" was determined to exist, based on Article III of the U. S. Constitution.

Marbury v. Madison

500

In this 1946 case SCOTUS ruled that segregation of interstate buses was unconstitutional.

Morgan v. VA

Daily Double

500

This was the name given to the massive effort to register Black voters in Mississippi in 1964.

Freedom Summer

500

This is the acronym for the treaty organization that includes the United States, Canada and most of western and central Europe.

NATO

500

This is the title given to a high level diplomat assigned by the president to accomplish a particular negotiation with a foreign country.

Special Envoy