EOC Unit 9 Social Issues: Immigration and Court Cases

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Which Supreme Court case allowed for "separate but equal" facilities?

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Plessy v Ferguson

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In Mendez v Westminster, the Court stated that segregating --------- students is unconstitutional

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Mexican

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Which Supreme Court case stated that all individuals must be read their rights at the time of arrest?

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Miranda v Arizonia

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Which Supreme Court case upheld Franklin Roosevelt's Executive order 9066 requiring all Japanese Americans to be relocated during World War II?

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Korematsu v U.S.

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This ruling said that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories.

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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This ruling determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public schools, even when it is non-denominational and students may excuse themselves from participation.

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Engle v. Vitale

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This ruling held that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations. Indigent criminal defendants had a right to be provided counsel at trial.

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Escobedo v. Illinois,1964 & Gideon v. Wainwright

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Supreme Court ruling-the government’s decision regarding the Japanese American Internment during WWII and found that it was not unconstitutional.

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Korematsu v. U.S. 1944

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This ruling held that evidence obtained in violation of the 4th Amendment protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" must be excluded from criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as federal courts.

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Mapp v. Ohio 1961

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The Court decided that a state supported school could use race as a basis for admission, though it ruled that quotas were illegal. Bakke was admitted. Which case does this refer to?

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Regents of California v. Bakke 1978