Taco Bell Supreme
This 2000 Supreme Court case ended the Florida recount and effectively decided the presidential election.
Bush v. Gore?
This case held that racially gerrymandered districts could violate the Equal Protection Clause.
Shaw v. Reno
This case ruled racial quota systems in college admissions unconstitutional.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
This case opened the door for federal courts to hear redistricting cases.
Baker v. Carr
This unanimously decided case declared segregated public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
The decision established this principle requiring legislative districts to be roughly equal in population.
one person, one vote
Baker concerned this state’s refusal to redraw legislative districts for decades.
Tennessee
Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a “whites only” car on this state’s railway.
Louisiana
This county in Florida, disputed vote-counting process, was at the center of Bush v. Gore.
Miami- Dade county
Brown famously rejected the doctrine from this earlier case.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bakke was rejected twice to this program in the University of California
The University of California's medical school
In the original 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court upheld state-mandated segregation in railroad cars as long as they were “____ ___ ____ .”
separate but equal
The Supreme Court’s ruling effectively awarded the presidency to this candidate.
George W Bush
In Shaw v. Reno, the Court said that redistricting based on race must face this high level of judicial scrutiny.
strict scrutiny
Which clause of the Constitution was invoked by the Court in Brown v. Board of Education to rule segregated public schools unconstitutional?
Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
The Court held that considering race in admissions is permissible for this compelling educational interest.
diversity
Shaw centered on unusually shaped districts created in this U.S. state
North Carolina
This Constitutional amendment’s Equal Protection Clause was at the center of Plessy’s argument
the 14th Amendment
This presidential order authorized the relocation of Japanese Americans.
Executive Order 9066
This chief justice wrote the Court’s unanimous opinion on Brown V. Board of Education
Earl Warren
social security, works progress administration and fair labor standards act all were apart of which presidents "New Deal"
FDR
Medicare/medicaid and project head start were about of Lyndon b Johnsons ________ project
Great Society
Expanded the government’s power to detain, investigate and prosecute suspected terrorists
2001 USA Patriot act
Voting Rights Act 1965 made this a federal crime
Discriminatory voting practices
Prohibited denial of voting rights “on account of race color or previous conditions of servitude”
15th amendment