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Amendments 1 to 5
100
A right that the 19th Amendment guaranteed.
What is women's right to vote?
100
The legal right to vote.
What is suffrage
100
States that Congress can’t establish a national religion
What is the Establishment Clause
200
One of the following is the standard for evaluating racial discrimination claims. a) the reasonableness standard b) the standard of living c) the intermediate scrutiny standard d) the strict scrutiny standard e) racial discrimination has no standard for evaluation
What is the strict scrutiny standard?
200
The policies put in place to protect people from arbitrary and discriminatory treatment
What is civil rights
200
States That a school needs to have a secular purpose to get state funding
What is The Lemon Test
300
This court ruling abolished segregation.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
300
Passed in 1990, this law requires both employers and public facilities to make accommodations for individuals with disabilities and makes discrimination against them illegal.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
300
The Third
What amendment has never been Incorporated?
400
These are two ways Southern states denied African-Americans the right to vote.
What are poll taxes and white primaries? (Grandfather clause also accepted)
400
This policy was designed to give special attention to members of previously disadvantaged groups.
What is Affirmative Action
500
One of the following was created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: a) American Indian Movement (AIM) b) Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) c) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) d) Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (FADA) e) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
500
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, and property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
500
Roth v US
What is Supreme Court case made obscenity not protected by freedom of speech/the first amendment?