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Civil Right Qiz Prep
prep for us history test on friday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marburg V Madison | 1803 Judiar review, and says federal gov is superior to state laws. Enforces article VI of the constitution. (US supreme court determines constitutionality). |
| Plessy V Ferguson (1896) | seperate but equal provisions don't violate terms of 13th and 14th Amendments. |
| Brown V Bord of Education (1955) | Racial discrimination in public schools is unconstitutional. Violates terms in 14th Amendment; implied NAACP issues. |
| McCulloch V Maryland (1819) | National bank can exist in any state. Implied powers of article 1 section 8 allowing it to exist. Article known as the "elastic clause", Article allows the gov to be flexible to reach needs of people. |
| Worchester V Georgia (1832) | says the cherokee nation in georgia was one federal protection from the actions of any state gov attempting to strip its sovereignty. |
| Muller V Oregon (1908) | Upheld Oregon state law that women couldn't work more than 10 hrs., women argue that they want true equal standards for both sexes. legal limitation on their working set the stage for wage discrimination. |
| Roe V Wade (1973) | Decided most state abortion laws violated a right to privacy under the due process clause outlined in the 14th Amendment. Case implied morals. |
| Gideon V Wainwright (1963) | Says that states must provide lawyers to defendants who cannot afford them in all criminal cases. Enforces the 6th, 14th Amendments. |
| Tinker V Desmoines School District (1969) | On 1965, Tinker, his sister and his friend wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam war, and are suspended for violating a school rule against creating a climate that distracted people in the academical environment. |
| Bethel School District V Fraser (1986) | case limits free speech in schools. Fraser had given sexually charged speech supporting friend in ASB and was suspended. Fraiser hires ACLU to appeal his 1st amm rights violated,wins in District Cireut Court,school bord takes it to US SC,fraiser looses. |
| Miranda V Arizona (1966) | Police must inform suspects of their 5th Amendment rights and offer them the right to an attorney before interrogating them, re-enforces the 6th Amendment. |
| Dredscott V Sanford (1856) | decision involving slaves to free territories, court decided that slaves were property and even if recognized as a citizen, they were still considered property of slave owners. 13th, 14th Amendments overturn this decision |
| Korematsu V United States (1944) | Court decided that US could intern, or imprison Japanese Americans during WWII to protect against espionage. protects executive order 9066 which called for Japanese relocation. |
| Loving V Virginia (1967) | Overturns the racial integrity act of 1924 which stated people of different races were not allowed to be married in Virginia. |
| De Jure Segregation | segregation by law |
| De Facto Segregation | segregation in terms of society or by fact |
| Thurgood Marshall | first african american supreme court justice |
| Jim Crow Laws | |
| Orval Faubus | governor of Arkansas, opposed integration, called out Arkansas state national guard |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 | investigated rights of civil rights |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned segregation in public organizations as well as private businesses. |
| Rosa Parks | in 1955, she sat on a bus in Alabama and refused to give up her seat to a white person, she died in 2005, she was a civil rights activist. |
| Montgomery bus boycott | |
| Sit-ins | restaurant segregation, separate and unequal, protested by opposition. |
| James Maradeth | symbol of civil rights |
| Medgar Evers | Leader of NAACP, Killed by Byron DE La Beckwith |
| Byron De La Beckwith | accused of killing medgar evers, dies in prison on 2001. |
| Kats V United States (1967) | to protect citizens from illegal wire taps,the FBI suspected suspicious activity within phone communications,suspended in 2002, the patriot act:gov can overstep bounds of constitution under special conditions associated towards civil protection risks. |
| Texas V Johnson (1989) | burning the american flag is covered under freedom of speech, however it is not necessary to do it for no reason since it will lead to social conflicts but no legal conflicts. |
| Malcolm X | spread black nationalism, minister of nation of Islam, gave message of self-reliance and self-protection, called for black pride. |
| Voting rights Act of 1965 | banned literary tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voting registration and elections in states that had discriminated minorities. |
| 24th Amendment | ratified in 1964, banned poll tax which used to keep poor African Americans from voting. |
| Tommy Smith & John Carlos | striped of their metals, discriminated......RVZ |
| Black Panther | violent organization, became the symbol of young militant African Americans |
| Phila buster | blocking legislation by debating it, it takes 60% of votes to end it, or 51% to pass it. |
| Birmingham Alabama | most racist city in the south. |
| JFK delivered civil rights speech on? | June 11, 1963, leading to civil rights legislation. |
| March on Washington | 200,000 people marched, MLK delivered his "I have a dream" speech. |
| Vote count on Civil rights bill of 1964 | 73 to 27, its not an Amendment, but it enforces some Amendments. |
| Boynton V Virginia (1960) | segregation on interstate buses and waiting rooms was illegal. |
| "Freedom Ride" | riders set off in two separate buses from DC to New Orleans, African Americans accommodated the previous rights of white people, this was done to test the federal law's willingness to enforce the law. |
| Freedom Summer | A major campaign in which 1000 volunteers flood Mississippi, focus on registering African Americans to vote. |
| Allen Dulles | Director of CIA, Kennedy tells his he is responsible for Cuban crisis. |
| Richard Bisell | in charge of black opps (secret assassination program) |
| Charels Cabell | assistant director of CIA |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | 1961, no success due lack of experience and loosing against Cubans |
| Plausible Deniablity | Kennedy's big frase, he says if they loose he would not take responsibility, he blames it on CIA, this leads to his assassination |
| November 20th 1963 | in Dallace Texas, Earl Cabell, Oswell Kills Kennedy |
| Warren Commission | investigates Kennedy's death |
| Jack Ruby | Mob Boss of Dallace, had cancer, kills oswell in public |
| LBJ | VP of Kennedy |
| John MCoae | New Director of CIA |
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