Chapter 6-Section 2

Question 1

Equality of Opportunity

Answer 1

Giving people an equal chance to succeed

Question 2

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 2

Said separate but equal public schools are inherently unequal, thus starting racial desegregation

Question 3

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 3

Upheld separate but dual facilities for white and black peoples on railroad cars

Question 4

Reed v Reed

Answer 4

Gender discrimination violates the equal protection clause of gh Constitution

Question 5

Griswold v Conneticut

Answer 5

Found a “rights to privacy” that would ban any state law against selling contraceptives

Question 6

Scott v Stanford (Dred Scott Case)

Answer 6

Congress ha son authority to ban slavery in a territory.nanslave was considered. A piece of property

Question 7

Roe v Wade

Answer 7

State laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional

Question 8

Regents of the University of California v Bakke

Answer 8

In a confused set of rival opinions, the decisive vote was cast by Justice Powell, who said that a quote like ban on Bakke’s admission was unconstitutional but that “diversity” was a legitimate goal that could be pursued by taking race into account.

Question 9

US v Windsor

Answer 9

Gay couples married in states where same set marriage is legal must receive the same health, tax, and other benefits that heterosexual married couples receive.

Question 10

Reverse Discrimination

Answer 10

Using race or sex to give preferential treatment to some people