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Name the Constitutional Amendment
VocabLandmark Supreme
Court Cases
Protecting Civil Rights
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Court Cases
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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
The right of U.S. citizens to vote regardless of sex
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
Personal freedoms protected for all individuals
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
In this 1833 case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights did not
apply to state or local laws
Answer – 500
Barron v. Baltimore