Civil rights

Question 1

What is civil liberties?

Answer 1

The fundamental individual freedoms like freedom of speech, religion and association with BoR intended to give individual freedom to government authority

Question 2

What is civil rights?

Answer 2

Addition protections to ensure groups of citizens aren’t discriminated against
Coming from equal protection laws in the 14th amendment
Usually for enslaved people but supreme court used Brown v Board and Roe v Wade to reach decision
Congress voting right act 1965

Question 3

How are they protected by constitution?

Answer 3

BoR and further amendment

Question 4

13th amendment occurring in 1865?

Answer 4

Abolish slavery

Question 5

14th amendment occurring in 1868?

Answer 5

Former enslaved full citizenship

Question 6

15th amendment occurring in 1870?

Answer 6

Gave men and all races right to vote

Question 7

19th amendment occurring in 1920?

Answer 7

Women right to vote

Question 8

24th amendment occurring in 1964?

Answer 8

Right to vote without tax

Question 9

What is the equal rights amendment?

Answer 9

Women not mentioned in constitutional amendment never ratified
Make illegal to discriminate on sex

Question 10

Supreme court- Shelley
v Kramer?

Answer 10

Restrictive convent banned the sale of homes to african american ruled unconstitutional

Question 11

Supreme court- Griswold v Conneticut?

Answer 11

Right to use contraceptives within marriage no longer banned contraceptives to married people

Question 12

SC- Masterpeice cakeshop colerado civil rights commision 2018?

Answer 12

Right of business owner to refuse service on basis of religious beliefs
Baker refusing wedding cake for same sex marriage

Question 13

Different pressure groups and social moderts?

Answer 13

NAACP (+21st century)
ACLU
Anti lockdown

Question 14

PG- ALCU?

Answer 14

Defend civil liberties
1.5 mill member 300 staffed
-Defended all american even white supremist Kuklux klan
-1978 successfully defended Neo nazi group through chicago where holocaust survivors
-Won court case about protecting gay rights
-Brown v Topeka
-Roe v wade

Question 15

PG- NAACP?

Answer 15

oldest civil rights movement
-Led campaign to end racial segregation
-Lobbied congress to pass civil right 1957,64, 68 and voting right act 1965
-Founded in 1909
-Protesters arrested for heling plan march on washington
-Brown v board and shelley v kraemer

Question 16

PG- NAACP 21st century?

Answer 16

African american receive equal economic, education, health, criminal justice and voting rights
-2020 #mayweareaonedying response to Ahumed Aubrey who died whilsy jogging through Georgia

Question 17

PG- anti lockdown movements?

Answer 17

-During Covid 19 crisis people protested against lockdown arguing lockdown goes against civil rights
-2 mill people associated
April 2020 armed protest entered Michigan capitol october 2020, FBI arrested members of a military who were planning to kidnap governer Gretched Whitmer