Cracking Ap Gov/pol Chp 11

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What were the consequences of Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States?

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affirmation of the power of Congress

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What were the consequences of Barron v. Baltimore?

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Determined that the Bill of rights restricted the national government but not the state governments

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Which rights that are amendments can be restricted by states?

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2, 3, 5, 7, 8

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What is the most famous limit on free speech?

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clear and present danger test

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How does the Court determine the limits of free speech today?

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Preferred position doctrine

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reflects the Court's belief that freedom of speech is fundamental to liberty. therefore, any limits must be on REALLY severe threats

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Preferred position doctrine

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What case established the three-part obscenity test?

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Miller v. California

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What is the three-part obscenity test?

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-Would the average person, applying community standards, judge the work as appealing primarily to people's baser sexual instincts?
-Does the work lack other value, or is also of literary, artistic, political, or scientific interest?
-Does the work depict sexual behavior in an offensive manner?

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What is the rule for freedom of assembly and association?

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Can't disrupt day-to-day life

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Is freedom to exercise religion absolute?

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No. There are some exceptions

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What is the Lemon test and what is it named for?

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The three-part test to see if government can intervene in something religious
Named after Lemon v. Kurtzman

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Which amendments led to the implied right of privacy?

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1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 14

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Shortly after the civil war and the civil war amendments, what did the Supreme Court rule as the place where former slaves should find discrimination protection?

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The states not the federal government

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How long did the time period of Reconstruction last?

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1865 to 1877

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What was Lincoln's intention with the South after the Civil War?

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Didn't want to punish them, wanted a quick and painless reunion

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required that 10 percent of those voters who had voted in the 1860 election sweat an oath of allegience to the Union and accept the 13th amendment

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Ten-Percent Plan

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How did Congress view the South after the war?

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"conquered territory"

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provided that former Confederate states be ruled by a military governor and required 50 percent of electorate to swear an oath of allegiance

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Wade-Davis Bill

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How did Lincoln handle the Wade-Davis bill?

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Pocket-vetoed it

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What happened when Johnson took the presidency?

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Congress was out of session so he could do whatever he wanted for Reconstruction

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What were the provisions of Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?

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-provisional military governments until readmitted to the Union
-all Southern citizens to swear a loyalty oath
-prohibit southern elite from participation in new government

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Did Johnson's plan work? Why?

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No. Most men were pardoned and they just changed slave codes to freedmen codes

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How was Congress divided under Johnson?

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Conservative Republicans, moderates, and Radical Republicans

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What were the provisions of the 14th Amendment?

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-born in US, you are a citizen
-prohibited depriving rights without due process
-said states couldn't take away protection
-either give freedmen vote or stop counting them in congressional population
-barred big politicians from office
-excused Confederacy's war debt

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Southerners who cooperated with Reconstruction

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scalawag

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Northerners who ran for Reconstruction programs

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carpetbaggers

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The period after the Civil War is known as

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"The Gilded Age"

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was a fraudulent, private construction company that fleexd the US government by padding federal contracts and skimming off profits of the Union Pacific Railroad (involved Grant's vice prez)

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Credit Mobilier

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was a group of distillers who bribed federal officials and tax collectors to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes on their product

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Whiskey Ring

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What was the ruling of the Slaughter-house cases?

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14th amendment only applied to federal government

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What was the ruling of US v. Reed?

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grandfather clauses are okay

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Republicans that abandoned the coalition that supported Reconstruction

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Horace Greeley

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pardoned many of the rebels, thus allowing them to reenter public life

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Amnesty Act of 1872

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Name the Southern Democrats called themselves

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Redeemers

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Provisions of the Compromise of 1877

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-Rutherford B. Hayes would become president
-Democrats could take back control of states

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Africans traded a portion of their crop in return for the right to work someone else's land

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sharecropping