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Which amendment is represented in the picture?

• 19th

• 24th

• 26th

• 15th

Gave citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

“An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow, and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963.

Which of the following constitutional provisions guarantees that “sameness [is] made legal” in King’s argument?

• The faithful execution clause of Article II

• The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

• The full faith and credit clause of Article IV

• The establishment clause of the First Amendment

Supporters of King’s view that just laws would treat the majority and minority the same could point to which of the following Supreme Court cases?

• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)

• McDonald v. Chicago (2010)

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Which of the following is an example of a social movement motivated by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• The Progressive movement

• The women’s rights movement

• Occupy Wall Street

• Abolitionism

Which of the following best defines civil rights?

• Rights that guarantee individuals freedom from discrimination at both the state and federal levels of government

• Freedoms that give people the right to refuse to obey laws as a peaceful form of political protest

• Freedoms that protect citizens, opinions, and property against government abuse of power

• Rights that are given to the states to protect them from the federal government superseding their power

This occurs without the direct intent of a state or school board, but because of housing patterns that naturally create enclaves of children of the same color or race.

• De jure segregation

• Educational Segregation

• De facto segregation

• Segregation

An illegal state or school board policy that intends to separate children by race, color, or national origin that results in a dual school system.

• Educational Segregation

• De facto segregation

• De jure segregation

• Segregation

Why did Cesar Chavez start a union?

• to get better treatment of migrant farm workers

• to get equal protection for migrant workers at school

• to learn how to farm

• to endorse bilingual education in public schools