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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, Petition, and Assembly. Answer – 100. First Amendment. Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without warrants. Answer – 200. Fourth Amendment.
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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, Petition, and Assembly
Answer – 100 First Amendment
Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without warrants
Answer – 200 Fourth Amendment
Answer – 300 Nineteenth Amendment
Ratified three years after the Civil War: Defines citizenship; establishes equal protection and due process of law
Answer – 400 Fourteenth Amendment
Ratified in 1964: Abolished poll taxes (but only for Presidential, Vice Presidential, and Congressional elections)
Answer – 500 Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Nonverbal actions meant to convey a political message, such as burning the U.S. flag or wearing armbands to protest war
Answer – 100 Symbolic Speech
Racial segregation that occurs because of past social and economic conditions or residential patterns
Answer – 200 De Facto Segregation
Stopping an action before it has actually occurred, like publishing the Pentagon Papers
Answer – 300 Prior Restraint
This test, developed in the verdict of Schenk v. U.S., is performed to declare whether or not speech should be limited
Answer – 400 Clear and Present Danger Test
Answer – 500 Civil Liberties
Through the Fourteenth Amendment, the verdict of this Supreme Court case required states to provide counsel to anyone charged with a felony
Answer – 100 Gideon v. Wainwright
This Supreme Court case deemed public school prayer unconstitutional
Answer – 200 Engle v. Vitale
First Supreme Court case to imply and protect the right to privacy, including a right to family planning
Answer – 300 Griswold v. Connecticut
Supreme Court case that upheld the ordering of Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship
Answer – 400 Korematsu v. U.S.
1961 Supreme Court case that established the precedent for Fourth Amendment rights: illegally seized evidence can not be used during local, state, or federal trials
Answer – 500 Mapp v. Ohio
Though met with resistance in the South, it overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson with “all deliberate speed.”
Answer – 100 Brown v. Board of Education
This act, passed by Congress, banned discrimination in employment and public facilities. It also allowed the government to withhold federal funds from states and local areas not in compliance
Answer – 200 Civil Rights Act of 1964
Federal agency established to enforce laws against job discrimination
Answer – 300 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This act, passed by Congress, not only outlawed literacy and other discriminatory tests but allowed federal officials to register new voters
Answer – 400 Voting Rights Act of 1965
In this 2003 case, the Supreme Court overturned a previous verdict and ruled that states cannot intrude on the personal and private life of an individual
Answer – 500 Lawrence v. Texas
This Supreme Court implies a “right to privacy” that protects a woman’s freedom to choose abortion or not during the first three months of pregnancy
Answer – 100 Roe v. Wade
Responses may be used in a court of law: this Supreme Court case ruling requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect of his/her constitutional rights
Answer – 200 Miranda v. Arizona
Supreme Court case that deemed flag desecration as constitutional
Answer – 300 Texas v. Johnson
This Supreme Court case upheld affirmative action but declared specific racial quotas unconstitutional
Answer – 400 University of California v. Bakke
