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What is the difference between civil rights and civil liberties?
Answer: Civil rights are for protecting people against discrimination while civil liberties are for protecting the rights of all citizens
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What does equality mean in the U.S?
Answer: Equality in the U.S means that everyone is born with the same rights and everyone should have an equal opportunity to succeed.
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What did Brown v. Board of Education do?
Answer: It deemed that separating facilities based on race is unequal and therefore violates the 14th amendment
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What is the difference between De jure segregation and de facto segregation?
Answer: De jure is when laws cause segregation while defacto is segregation by others in public
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Answer: It banned segregation in terms of jobs and the government
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What did the voting rights act of 1965 do?
Answer: It banned discrimination during voting and cut federal funding to states as a punishment.
What did Title IX of the Education Act of 1972 do?
Answer: banned unequal education in terms of gender
What does affirmative action do?
Answer: Affirmative action gives minority groups unique opportunities to make up for past discrimination
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What happened to incite Regents of University v. bakke?
Answer: A white student who got higher scores got rejected for minority students even though he got higher grades.
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What is affirmative action in Regents of University v. Bakke a result of?
Answer: It is a result of minority rights overcoming the rights of the majority because of affirmative action
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What does incorporation do and which amendment is it a part of?
It makes an amendment that only applies to the country and also apply to the states and it is a part of the 14th amendment.
What did the equal protection clause do?
Answer: Gave equal protection to all citizens under the law
What were the 3 amendments after the Civil War that were created against slavery?
Answer: 13,14, and 15th amendment
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What is the difference between the Free exercise clause and the Establishment clause?
Answer: Free exercise states that there can be no laws restricting the practice of religion unless it is harming other people. Establishment clause states that there can’t be a law saying that people have to worship a certain religion.
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What did NY times v. U.S prevent and define it.
Answer: NY Times v. U.S prevents prior restraint. Prior restraint is when newspaper companies are prevented from making information public before it is released.
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What is the difference and similarity between libel and slander and what amendment/clause are they an exception for?
Answer: Libel is in the form of writing while slander is in the form of speech. They are both offensive statements about someone and they are both an exception of the Freedom of Speech clause of the 1st amendment
What is the constitutional clause does Wisconsin v. Yoder?
Answer: Free Exercise.
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What is the role of the police in protecting the rights of the accused, as guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: when the police arrest a suspect they must inform the suspect of his or her
constitutional rights to remain silent and to consult with an attorney.
Name 3 civil rights:
Answer(Any combination of 3): right to vote, right to equal protection under the law, right to use public places, no discrimination based on age, gender, origin, skin color, or race
Name 3 civil liberties
(Any combination of 3) Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and bill of rights.
Which amendment makes it illegal to have slavery in the United States?
Answer: 13th Amendment
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What amendment gave women suffrage?
Answer: 19th
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What landmark case ruled separate but equal?
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
What amendment gave the right to no excessive bail, fines and cruel and unusual behavior
Anser 8th amendment
What case gave women a right to abortion?
Answer: Roe v. Wade