101 History Facts 91-101

Question 1

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 1

Ended school segregation. (“Separate but equal” is NOT okay.)

Question 2

Hernandez v. Texas

Answer 2

Ruled that the exclusion of jurors on race violated the 14th amendment.

Question 3

Sweatt v. Painter

Answer 3

Ruled that black law schools were not equal to whites.

Question 4

Mendez v. Westminister

Answer 4

Ruled that Orange County schools could not segregate Mexican students.

Question 5

Delgado v. Bastrop

Answer 5

Ruled the segregation of Mexicans in Texas was illegal.

Question 6

Edgewood v. Kirby

Answer 6

Ruled school finance in Texas was unequal leading to “Robin Hood” plan for school funding.

Question 7

Tinker v. Des Moines

Answer 7

Defined the constitutionality of free speech to children in school settings

Question 8

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Answer 8

Ruled that states cannot force a child to attend school when it infringes upon their first amendment rights

Question 9

White v. Regester

Answer 9

Forced Texas to draw fair redistricting lines to protect Latino votes

Question 10

Scopes Trial

Answer 10

Highly publicized trial debating Fundamentalism and Modernism

Question 11

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 11

1898 court decision that “separate but equal facilities were constitutional”.