Constitutional Q's
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Compare & Contrast
Impact & Legacy
100

This clause was central to BOTH cases.

What is the Equal Protection Clause?

100

Year decided.

What is 1896?

100

Year decided.

What is 1954?

100

Both cases centered on this amendment.

What is the 14th amendment? 

100

Brown led to this major American movement. 

What is the Civil Rights Movement?

200

Plessy argued this amendment was being violated.

What is the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection)? 

200

The doctrine created by this case.

What is separate but equal?

200

The state where the case originated.

What is Kansas?

200

This case involved more than one amendment. 

What is Brown v. Board of Education? 

200

This term describes ending segregation.

What is desegregation? 

300

This phrase describes how Brown interpreted the 14th Amendment differently than Plessy.

What is “inherently unequal”?

300

Where did the segregation involved take place? 

What is railroad cars?

300

The organization that argued the case.

What is the NAACP?

300

Plessy allowed this; Brown rejected it.

Separate but equal

300

How did southern states react to the ruling in brown v board? 

What is massive resistance? 

400

This concept means courts should follow previous decisions.

What is Precedent? 

400

The which SCOTUS Justice was the lone dissenter.

Who is Justice John Marshall Harlan?

400

Type of segregation challenged.

What is public school segregation?

400

How many years did it take to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson? 

58

400

Brown strengthened this branch of government.

The Judicial Branch

500

Brown overturned Plessy, meaning it did this to precedent.

What is overruled/reversed precedent?

500

Harlan said the Constitution is this.

What is color-blind?

500

 brown v board showed that segregation in public schools negatively affected black school children in this aspect. 

What is psychologically? 

500

One major reason the Court’s interpretation changed.

What is evolving understanding of equality / social science evidence / changing society?

500

Brown showed the Constitution can do this over time.

What is evolve / be reinterpreted?