SMHS USH Unit 5 Exam Review

Determined "Separate but Equal" didn't violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amend.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Brown V. Board of Education
• In re Gault

Supreme Court case that established separate is NOT equal, therefore DESEGREGATING public schools.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Bush v. Gore

Ruled segregation of Mexican-American children illegal in California unless a special state law requires it 

• Mendez v. Westminster (1947)
• San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez (1973)
• Delgado v. Bastrop I.S.D. (1948)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

This court case alleged that the voting districts as drawn in Texas contained impermissible deviations from population equality and that the plan’s multi-member districts were constitutionally invalid because they diluted the voting strength of racial and ethnic minorities.

• Edgewood ISD v. Kirby

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• White v. Regester

Seeking to influence/persuade legislators to introduce or vote for/against a bill is called _____________.

• protesting

• forum

• lobbying

• due process

The Progressive Era was in response to

• corruption and bad living conditions during the Gilded Age

• Settling the West

• World War I

• new inventions

The period between 1900 to 1920 where people wanted to achieve progress by correcting political and economic problems that came about from the Industrial Revolution is known as...

• Progressive Era Movement

• Federalism

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Power

Introducing new ideas and revolving around a political personality contribute to the formation of...

• campaign issues
• primary elections
• third parties
• crop circles

The process by which a minority culture chooses to give up it’s own identity and replace it with the identity of a major culture is called

• Modernization

• Assimilation

• Extinction

The main purpose of the muckrakers during the early 1900's was to

• promote war

• reduce the role of government in people's lives

• encourage the growth of big business

• point out economic and social problems