Civil Rights Acts
What did women fight for during the Civil Rights Act?
Women wanted equal treatment and equal pay as men, they wanted to be able to have more job opportunities and rights to their body.
What is a change to the Constitution?
Amendment
What is reapportionment?
The process of relocating seats in the House every 10 years based on the census.
What document makes civil liberties apply to citizens always?
The Constitution
What holiday do we celebrate every year for the Declaration of Independence?
The Fourth of July
Why was womans suffrage so important in the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
Woman were still not given their rights, especially the right to vote even though it was passed 50 years before this time. It was important because it pushed woman to fight for their rights that they were supposed to have before this time.
What is the Constitution known as?
The Supreme Law of the Land
What does ¨pack and crack¨ mean?
Packing is the number of people and cracking is splitting of the cities. They have to make sure that the amount of people in each city is fair and equal.
What are substantive rights?
Rights that place limits on the national government.
Who were the authors of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin.
Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the biggest legislation since Reconstruction?
The Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation in public areas, it also created the Equal Employment Opportunity in order to prevent discrimination in the workplace. This was huge because segregation was such a major role for the African Americans whole life. This was the first step to change.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Who do representatives represent?
Representatives do not represent everyone, or the entire state, they only represent the specific district that they are running for.
What did the Due Process Clause do?
States that no state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or prosperity without a due process clause.
Which Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence?
The second continental congress, in 1776.
How did Congress enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What type of government is ruled by the majority of the people through the election of representatives who serve as trustees?
Participatory Government
What purpose does gerrymandering have?
It works in favor of a party in order for them to win a district, rigging the election.
What is the significant of no ex post facto laws?
It makes it so people can not get in trouble for something they did before there was a law against it.
Who believed that the three purposes of government were life, liberty, and property?
John Locke
What was put in place before the Civil Rights Act that was unfair for the African Americans who were able to vote?
One of the major things that was put in place in order to make it extremely difficult for blacks to vote was literacy test. They would be required to take them in order to vote, which was hard because they were never in good schools to learn these things that may be simple for a white person.
Why is it important that we have 3 different branches of government?
So not one branch has all of the power, the legislative branch makes and create laws, the executive branch enforces laws, and the judicial branch is for judicial review. These branches can all check on one another to make sure that they arent overusing their powers.
What court case decided the courts may decide redistricting cases where the lines are drawn illegally?
Baker v Carr
Why are civil liberties not unlimited?
They are not unlimited because they are made in order to protect the freedoms of all.
Why do Americans feel that the Declaration of Independence is such an important part of our history?
The Declaration of Independence gave the reason this country was created and the hopes and ideas that Americans have for the country. The Declaration is a huge part in history on the reason we have the country we have now.