These five rights are protected by this Amendment.
What are the rights to religion, speech, press, assembly and petition?
100
This constitutional amendment protects all rights of citizens that are NOT enumerated in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment.
100
This constitutional amendment provided all women with the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment.
100
Harsh segregation laws passed throughout the South after the end of Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws.
200
These types of speech enjoy strong constitutional protection
What is symbolic speech and political speech.
200
This constitutional amendment protects citizens from being deprived of their life, liberty or property without due process of law.
What is the 5th amendment.
200
This landmark Supreme Court case struck down segregation in public schools as unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
200
This landmark legislation finally ended racial segregation across the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
200
In this landmark court case, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action QUOTAS as unconstitutional.
What is the Bakke Case (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke).
300
These forms of speech do NOT enjoy constitutional protection (in other words, citizens may be prosecuted for engaging in this kind of speech).
What is defamation (slander/libel) and fighting words?
300
This constitutional amendment provides citizens with the right to a public jury trial, and to have the assistance of a lawyer.
What is 6th amendment.
300
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld segregation as constitutional as long as the facilities were "equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Passed after the Civil War, this constitutional amendment provides citizenship rights to all born or naturalized in the U.S., and prevents states from denying equal protection of the laws to citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment.
300
This type of equality refers to the idea that every individual must have the same chance to succeed in life.
What is equality of opportunity.
400
This "test" has been used by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine if speech (spoken, written, visual) is obscene.
What is the Miller Test.
400
This amendment protects the rights of citizens against police searches that do not have a warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment.
400
The decision in this infamous Supreme Court case intensified tensions over slavery before the Civil War.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford.
400
Policies that ensure previously or currently disadvantaged members of society are able to catch up with other members of society by being given a greater chance to succeed.
What is affirmative action.
400
This gathering of women and the "Declaration of Sentiments" marked the start of the suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
This three part test is used by the Supreme Court to determine whether there has been a violation of the Establishment Clause.
What is the Lemon Test.
500
The process by which the U.S. Supreme Court gradually applied the Bill of Rights to the states, beginning in 1925.
What is selective incorporation.
500
This march was intended to be a peaceful protest for voting rights---but after protestors became the target of tear-gas and billy clubs, President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is Bloody Sunday.
500
This one- sentence constitutional amendment banning gender discrimination failed in the state ratification process.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
500
This two part "test" has been used by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine if there has been a violation of the 1st Amendment's Free Exercise Clause.