Civil Liberties and Rights Vocab

Question 1

civil rights

Answer 1

policies designed to protect people from arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals

Question 2

fourteenth amendment

Answer 2

• No State shall make or abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
• nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
• nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
• first and only part of the Constitution to invoke the idea of equality.

Question 3

equal protection of the laws

Answer 3

Part of the 14th Amendment emphasizing that the law must provide equivalent “protection” to all people

Question 4

thirteenth amendment

Answer 4

• forbade slavery and involuntary servitude

Question 5

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 5

• made racial discrimination in public accommodations illegal
• forbade many forms of job discrimination
  -strengthened voting rights (but another law would be needed to fix the problem)

Question 6

fifteenth amendment

Answer 6

• suffrage to African Americans

Question 7

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 7

• ended informal and formal barriers to African Americans suffrage
• increased black voter turnout drastically

Question 8

nineteenth amendment

Answer 8

• women’s voting rights

Question 9

equal rights amendment

Answer 9

• passed in Congress but never ratified by states (but many states have their own individual forms of this in their Constitutions
• equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex

Question 10

Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990

Answer 10

A law passed in 1990 that requires employers in public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations” for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals and employment.