The process of declaring only certain, or selected provisions of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states rather than all of them at once is called.

_______ means that if the government takes your property for public use, they award you with the fair value of that property.

The _________ states that evidence obtained illegally by law enforcement cannot be used against a person in court

This Supreme Court case extended the 6th amendment right to a lawyer to state courts, regardless of the type of charges a defendant faces.

True or False: The right to privacy is specifically mentioned as a protection in the Bill of Rights.

The decision in this Supreme Court case struck down restrictive abortion laws in Texas, stating that the laws violated a women's 14th amendment due process rights as well as her right to privacy.

Social movements of the last half century have largely been motivated and supported by what constitutional clause?

In this important document, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. argued people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts

This amendment contains two important clauses, the due process clause and the equal protection clause and was passed to establish citizenship and protect the rights of former slaves after the Civil War

This important law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and also prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs

This important law empowered Congress to oversee elections in southern states that had a history of discrimination in voting and eliminated things like poll taxes and literacy tests

This is the policy by which minorities are given preferential consideration or are actively recruited for jobs, admission to colleges and universities, or other positions