14th Amendment

What does it mean for a law to discriminate without good reason?

• It means that people are equal under the law.

• It means that people are not equal under the law.

• It means that the law is perfect.

• It means that the law was written in 1787.

According to the Declaration of Independence, what was said about equality?

• That all men are created equal.

• That equality is not important.

• That women and men are equal.

• That equality appeared in the original Constitution.

What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment?

• Maintain inequality between men and women.

• Change the course of the U.S. towards a more perfect union.

• Establish segregation laws in education.

• Allow discrimination in transportation and housing.

What did the 14th Amendment require after the Civil War?

• Equal protection of the law, especially for those who had been enslaved.

• Segregation in education.

• Discrimination in transportation and housing.

• Equal rights only for immigrants.

What year did the Supreme Court rule that segregation in education violated the equal protection of the law?

• 1787

• 1868

• 1954

• 1970

Who has the equal protection of the law been expanded to prohibit discrimination against?

• Only to married men and women.

• Only to native and colonial men and women.

• To all racial groups and the LGBTQIA community.

• Only to people who served in the military.

How did a filmmaker describe the 14th Amendment?

• As the oldest law in the Constitution.

• As the Grand Canyon in the middle of the Constitution.

• As an irrelevant law.

• As the least cited amendment in the Supreme Court.