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Civil Rights Flashcards

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What are civil rights?

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Protections introduced by the government to ensure that a group of citizens are not discriminated against

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What are civil liberties?

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The freedoms enjoyed by individual Americans, e.g. freedom of speech

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What amendment do many civil rights originate from?

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The ‘equal protection’ clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1865)

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Example of a law passed by Congress which created civil rights

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The Voting Rights Act 1965 outlawed discrimination that prevented African-Americans from voting

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What are inalienable rights?

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Rights that cannot be taken away

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What are entrenched rights?

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Rights explicitly mentioned in the constitution, that can only be removed through an amendment

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What is the Third Amendment?

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Right not to have military troops quartered in private homes
(shows how the Bill of Rights is less relevant now)

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What year was the Bill of Rights?

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1791

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What was the 24th amendment?

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Gave Americans the right to vote without requiring them to pay tax. Intended to give African-Americans greater voting powers.

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What was the Equal Rights Amendment?

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A proposed amendment to the constitution which was never ratified which would’ve entrenched the rights of women and made it illegal to discriminate against on the basis of sex

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Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail?

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It was only ratified by 35 out of the necessary 38 states

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What pressure group campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment?

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National Organisation for Women (NOW)

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What are landmark rulings?

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A judgement by the Supreme Court which fundamentally changes the way the constitution is interpreted

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Brown v Topeka 1954

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Students given the right not to be segregated by race

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Griswold v Connecticut 1965

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Right to use contraceptives within marriage

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Miranda v Arizona 1966

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Right for people to be informed of their 5th amendment rights before being questioned by the police

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Loving v Virginia 1967

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Laws banning interracial marriage declared unconstitutional

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Lawrence v Texas 2003

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Right to engage in consensual private homosexual activity

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DC v Heller 2008

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Individual right to bear arms

20
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Altitude Express v Zarda 2020

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Right of employees not to be discriminated against based on sexual orientation

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How can pressure groups promote and support rights?

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  • Fundraising and advertising
  • Lobbying and electoral donations
  • Legal campaigns, amicus curiae briefs
22
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What does ACLU stand for?

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American Civil Liberties Union

23
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How many members of the ACLU are there?

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1.5m

24
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What is controversial about the ACLU?

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They defend the rights of ALL Americans, including Nazis and KKK

25
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Example of ACLU defending Nazis

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In 1978, they successfully defended the rights of neo-Nazis to march through an area of Chicago where many Holocaust survivors lived

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Examples of landmark cases which the ACLU has contributed to

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  • Brown v Topeka
  • Roe v Wade
27
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How many lawsuits against the Trump administration did the ACLU file?

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230

28
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Example of a recent ACLU success

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In 2020, they successfully won a case that made the discrimination on the grounds of gender orientation illegal

29
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What does the NAACP stand for?

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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

30
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Examples of the NAACP successfully lobbying Congress

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  • Civil Rights Act 1964
  • Voting Rights Act 1965
31
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How were the methods of the NAACP different from campaigners like Martin Luther King?

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Focused on using conventional campaigning methods instead of direct action

32
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What SCOTUS case established the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine, used to justify racial segregation?

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Plessy v Ferguson 1896

33
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Indian Civil Rights Act 1968

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Extended the protections of the Bill of Rights to Native American tribal governments

34
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What is affirmative action?

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Positive discrimination to favour minorities

35
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How many states have banned affirmative action?

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9

36
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Fisher v University of Texas 2016

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Ruled racial affirmative action was legal, as long as some criteria was met

37
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Impact of the Voting Rights Act 1965

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African-American turnout increased from 7% in 1964 to 67% in 1969

38
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Shelby County v Holder 2013

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States could impose restrictions on voting as the country had changed since 1965 - more than 25 states have introduced some voting restrictions since

39
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How are incarceration rates higher for African Americans?

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They only make up 12% of the population but 33% of the prison population

40
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How does drug usage differ between racial groups?

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It doesn’t - yet African Americans are 6x more likely to be incarcerated for drug crimes

41
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What is felony disenfranchisement?

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The loss of the right to vote by those who have committed a felony

42
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How many states have completely banned people with felonies from voting?

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11

43
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What are ballot initiatives?

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A petition signed by a certain number of people which triggers a referendum on their proposed law

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Example of a ballot initiative

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In 2018, voters in Florida passed a ballot initiative restoring the right to vote to those who had felonies - restored the right to vote to around 1.4m people

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How much more likely are black Americans to be killed by police than white Americans?

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2.5x

46
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How many people were estimated to have attended the 2020 BLM protests?

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23m

47
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What are some structural differences between US and UK civil rights?

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  • Civil liberties and rights are entrenched in the US constitution
  • Most US rights stem from Supreme Court decisions while in the UK they stem from acts of Parliament

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