Review Time

1. Review Time • Continue reviewing questions in packet!! • June 5- U.S. History Practice Exam (graded) • June 6- Review Day • June 9- U.S. History Practice Exam (graded) • June 10-12- Review Days • TUESDAY JUNE 17- U.S. History Regents

2. Mapp v. Ohio • Applied the “exclusionary rule” to the states. This rule stated that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts • Illegally obtained material cannot be used in a criminal trial

3. Engel v. Vitale • Case that ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools • Violated the “establishment clause” of the 1st amendment

4. Gideon v. Wainwright • Ruled that the right to the assistance of counsel in felony criminal cases is a fundamental right, and thus must be required in state courts as well as federal courts • States now must provide lawyers for defendants who cannot pay on their own

5. Miranda v. Arizona • Police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning • Protects citizens from “self-incrimination” • “I plead the fifth!!” • Statements cannot be used against people in court unless they are read their “Miranda rights”

6. Tinker v. Des Moines • Administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom • Tinker case allows expressive speech or behavior as long as it’s not disruptive or interferes with other students’ rights to learn

7. Today’s poverty level

8. The Great Society • The "'Great Society'" was a set of domestic political programs in the United States launched by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

11. Now, since I am a preacher by calling, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is...a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed that there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white, through the Poverty Program. There were experiments, hopes, and new beginnings. Then came the build-up in Vietnam.

12. And I watched the program broken as if it was some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war. And I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money, like some demonic, destructive suction tube.

13. And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such…..