This meeting occurring in 1848 is often thought of as the formal beginning of the Women's Suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
This is the name of a series of racist and discriminatory laws adopted in the South after the Civil War and in contradiction to the Reconstruction Amendments. They discriminated against African Americans and prevented them from voting.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
100
The right to be judged guilty or innocent by a group of other citizens.
What is the right to trial by jury?
100
This amendment contains the freedom of speech, press and assembly, among others
What is the 1st amendment?
100
This test on free speech prohibits speech that has the potential to cause harm or represents an immediate threat.
What is the Clear and Present Danger test?
200
This pioneering leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement published the journal "Revolution", was a leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and was tried and convicted for voting in the 1872 Presidential Election.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
200
This clause from one of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution was ratified in 1868 and states that the government must treat all people in the same way.
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
200
This protection, laid out in the 8th amendment, protects people from torture or coercion.
What is protection against cruel and unusual punishment?
200
This amendment prohibits the government from forcing citizens to keep soldiers in their homes.
What is the 3rd amendment?
200
This restriction on vulgar speech has historically been hard to enforce because everyone's definition of this is a little different.
What is the obscenity test?
300
This State became the first in the Union to establish women's suffrage in 1869.
What is the state of Wyoming?
300
These two discriminatory voting practices prevented African American's from voting by placing obstacles between them and the ballot box.
What are Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes?
300
This amendment protects people from being required to give incriminating evidence against themselves. Often referred to as, "I plead the ________."
What is the 5th Amendment?
300
This amendment protects the people themselves, their houses, and their documents from "unreasonable search or seizure."
What is the 4th amendment?
300
This limit on free speech prohibits speech about a person or group that is known to be false and could damage an otherwise good reputation.
What is the Slander test?
400
After being voted down multiple times this Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
This Supreme Court case from 1896 established the separate but equal doctrine that wasn't overturned until 1954 in the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
This term is not a game but refers to the protection in the 5th Amendment against be re-tried for the same offense.
What is double jeopardy?
400
The women's suffrage movement saw it's greatest success in 1920 with this amendment passage
What is the 19th amendment?
400
This type of protected 'speech' is actually an act - usually a public action meant to demonstrate a political viewpoint. Examples include burning flags or draft cards.
What is symbolic speech?
500
This amendment to the constitution would have forced the government to treat women the same as men. It was proposed many times starting in 1923 but was ultimately defeated in 1972 when it failed to get enough states to ratify.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
500
This is the practice championed by Martin Luther King Jr. whereby demonstrations, marches, and civil disobedience illustrated the brutality of segregation and claimed the moral high ground for Civil Rights.
What is non-violent protest?
500
Known as the "Great Writ" this is an old legal principle requiring the government to produce the 'body' of a person held in detention into a court of law to justify his or her captivity.
What is the writ of Habeas Corpus?
500
These three Civil War amendments gave freedom, citizenship and suffrage to African Americans
What were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
500
This restriction on free speech is issued by a court to prevent information about a trial from becoming public.