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These protect our personal freedoms and liberties.

Civil liberties

These protect groups from discrimination.


Civil Rights

Thisprevents an unfair arrest and imprisonment.


Habeascorpus
This prevents making an act a crime, when the time theact was committed it was not unlawful

Expost facto laws

This prevents a law or laws from being written againstan individual or group.

Bills of atainder

This amendment has the due process clause.


14th amendment
This amendment has the equal protection clause.
14th amendment
Which amendment defines American citizenship?
14th amendment
Which contains the correct amendments protecting rights of the accused?
4th, 5th, 6th, 8th
Which amendment prevents an unlawful search andseizure?
4th
Which amendment prevents double jeopardy and self-incrimination?
5th

Which amendment prevents cruel and unusual punishment?

8th
Which amendment guarantees a grand jury for capitalcrimes and the right to face your accuser?
6th

What clause in the 1st Amendment creates the wall between church andstate?


Establishment Clause

Which clause in the 1st Amendment says you can believe whatever you want?




Free exercise clause
What is prior restraint?

You are free of government censorship

What are the types of defamatory speech?


Libel and slander
Which amendment asserts we have more rights thanstated in the Constitution?
9th
Which amendment refers to the reserved rights of thestates and “to the people”?
9th

What does the government use to keep from entanglin gwith religious institutions?
The lemon test
This amendment abolished slavery.

13th
This amendment guarantees our civil rights andliberties.

14th

This type of segregation occurred in the North.


De facto segregation

This type of segregation occurred in the South.


De jure segregation & Jim Crow Laws

This Supreme Court ruling held segregation to be constitutional.


Plessey v Ferguson
This Supreme Court ruling held segregation to beunconstitutional.

Brownv Board of Education (Topeka) 1954

What is the 15th Amendment?



Right to vote (men)
What is the 19th Amendment?

Women's suffrage
Which amendment gave 18y/o the right to vote?
26th

What amendment outlawed poll taxes?



24th
When was the Voting Rights Act ratified?

1965

When was the Fair Housing Act ratified?


1968
What was the ERA?

Equal Rights Amendment

What is the name of the 1978 reverse discrimination case?


Bakke
What were the historic origins of American “Chinatowns?”
Crowded Ghettos

What civil rights act for people with disabilities was ratified in 1990?


The ADA
What institution did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 establish?
The EEOC
What group benefitted most from affirmative action?

Women

Who led the civil rights movement during the 1960’s?


Martin Luther King
When did Native Americans get the right to vote?

1924by Congressional statute

When did women get the right to vote?

1920

Which answer is an example of symbolic speech?



Burningthe American flag


Wearinga political-inspired armband
Displayingthe American flag upside down

What amendment has the exclusionary rule found thatprohibits any evidence in a trail that was not gathered by a court-ordered warrant?
4th, 5th, 6th

What year was the Stonewall Inn riot that began the gays struggle for equal rightsand where did it occur?


1969 NYC

What did the court rule in the Bakke Case?


That affirmative action quotas were illegal

What year was affirmative action implemented?

1964

What organization led the civil rights movement?


The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP
What test is used by the Supreme Court to prevent the government’s entanglement with religion?
The lemon test
What are Miranda Rights?
Civil rights at moment of arrest

When does “due process” begin?


When police turn on their red lights