AP Gov 3.10 - 3.12

Protections against oppressive government authority. Meant for all individuals and usually protected through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

• civil liberties

• civil rights

Which of the following Constitutional amendments abolished slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr. most effectively used the ______ to argue for the protection of civil rights.

• 1st Amendment

• equal protection clause

• • 13th Amendment

• due process clause

The Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned which previous SCOTUS decision?

• Loving v. Virginia

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in order to more effectively implement the:

• 12th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a significant political event because it:

• • scaled back the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment

• • was used to emancipate southern African Americans

• • was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Shaw v. Reno

• was instrumental in increasing the number of African American and other minority voters

1. A. Identify the Constitutional Concept common to both Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Milliken v. Bradley.(1974)

2. B. Based on the Constitutional concept identified in part A, explain how the facts of Brown v. Board of Education led to a different holding than the holding in Milliken v. Bradley.

3. C. Explain how the argument in the decision in Milliken v. Bradley is related to the Tenth Amendment.