All Classes

Quiz on Chapter 20 Sections 1&2 on Thursday

Green, Blue, and Yellow

PowerPoints are due on 5/20

Page 609, Key Terms and 1-3

Page 603, Key Terms and 1-3

Flipbooks are due Monday, April 13th 

Study for tomorrow's quiz on Chapter 19 Sec 3 

Study for a quiz on Chapter 19 Sec 1&2 for tomorrow

              Yellow and Green

Answer questions 4 & 5 on page 516

All Classes 

Answer questions 1-3 and Key Terms on 

page 516

Chapter 7 Study Guide

Missouri Compromise – agreement to admit Maine to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Dred Scott Decision – Dred Scott was an African American who had been taken by his owners to live in a free states and territories, then sued or his freedom. In this landmark Supreme Court, case the court held that slaves were property and not entitled to the same rights as a citizen.

Thirteenth Amendment – abolished slavery.

Fourteenth Amendment – stated that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including African Americans, are citizens of the United States.  Its Due Process Clause also stated that state and local governments cannot deprive any citizens of ‘life, liberty or property’ without due cause.

Fifteenth Amendment – gave African American males the right to vote.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment – abolished poll taxes.

Susan B. Anthony – American social reformer who played a key role in the woman’s suffrage movement.

Elizabeth Blackwell – the first female physician in the United States

Nineteenth Amendment – gave women the right to vote.

suffrage – the right to vote.

poll tax – a fee to vote.

equal protection – Principle whereby everyone is to be treated fairly, but not necessarily the same

segregation – separation, as in separation of one racial group from another, especially in public places such as hotels, schools, restaurants, and transportation.

Martin Luther King Jr. – leader of the American Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.

Malcolm X – the African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, who encouraged black pride in the 1960s

Jim Crow – Laws that segregated blacks from whites in the South

Plessy v. Ferguson – court case that involved Homer Plessy, an African American man who refused to leave a “whites only” railroad car in Louisiana. The Supreme Court ruled that the Louisiana law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the cars for blacks and for whites were of equal quality. The “separate but equal” standard was accepted as justification for laws that segregated blacks and whites. 

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka – the family of Linda Brown, an African American elementary student,  sued to have their daughter attend the all-white school in the neighborhood based on the idea that separate but equal was unequal.

University of California v. Bakke – the Supreme Court case that allowed race to be a consideration in admissions, but held that quotas were illegal.

In the early 1970s, the medical school of the University of California at Davis devised a dual admissions program to increase representation of disadvantaged minority students. Allan Bakke was a white male who applied to and was rejected from the regular admissions program, while minority applicants with lower grade point averages and testing scores were admitted under the specialty admissions program. Bakke filed suit, alleging that this admissions system violated the Equal Protection Clause and excluded him on the basis of race. The Supreme Court found for Bakke against the rigid use of racial quotas, but also established that race was a permissible criterion among several others.

Grutter v. Bollinger – the landmark court case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School. Barbara Grutter, applied or admission to the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 with an undergraduate GPA of 3.8 and an LSAT of 161. She was denied admission.  Grutter, who was white, challenged the law school’s use of race as a factor in admissions process.

The court held that a race-conscious admissions process that may favor "underrepresented minority groups," but that also took into account many other factors evaluated on an individual basis for every applicant, did not amount to a quota system that would have been unconstitutional under Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.  

affirmative action – Steps to counteract the effects of past racial discrimination and discrimination against women

NAACP – the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African American civil rights organization that works to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all minority groups in the United States.

Little Rock Nine – a group of nine African American students who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.  Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They attended the school after President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops from the 101^st Airborne to escort the students to school.

Twenty-Sixth Amendment – the voting age is lowered to eighteen.

Bloody Sunday – the March 7, 1965 protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama that ended in bloody confrontations with police.

Seneca Falls Convention – the name of a women’s rights convention in the United States

Thurgood Marshall – legal counsel for the NAACP during Brown v. Board of Education

Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation – the Supreme Court ruled that companies cannot have different hiring practices for women and men.

Freedom Riders- civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the Supreme Court ruling that segregated public bussing was unconstitutional.

March 2

Green, Blue, and Yellow

Page 203, 4-6

Red 

Page 203, Key Terms and 1-3

Green, Blue, and Yellow Page 203, Key Terms and questions 1-3

All Classes Page 194, 4-6

Assassination of Martin Luther King part 1 of 2

Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Mini Bio

Malcolm X after return from Mecca.

MALCOLM X: WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE YOURSELF?

Page 194, Key Terms and 1-3

Study Guide Chapter 6

Bill of Rights- a list of citizens’ rights

Amendment process – the way in which changes are added to the Constitution

Convention – assembly

Separation of church and state -   the situation in which the government may not favor any religion or establish an official religion

Eminent domain – the power to take private property for public use

Due process of law – a process by which the government must treat accused persons fairly according to rules established by law

Double jeopardy – being place on trial twice for the same crime

Freedom of the press – the right to publish newspapers, magazines, and other materials without government restriction

Freedom of speech – the right express one’s opinions publicly

Case studies – descriptions of situations or conflicts, the issues involved, and the decisions made

Tinker v. Des Moines – Supreme Court case involving the right of students to wear armbands as a form of symbolic speech to protest the Viet Nam War. The court ruled that armbands were a form of “speech” because they were symbols representing ideas.

Skokie v. Illinois – a Supreme Court case involving members of an American Nazi group and the town of Skokie, Illinois. The town of Skokie refused to allow the American Nazi group march in a local park. The Supreme Court ruled that the Nazi’s had the right to march and distribute material expressing hatred because the First Amendment protects the expression of all ideas

Texas v. Johnson – Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag outside of the convention center where the 1984 Republican National Convention was being held in Dallas, Texas. Johnson burned the flag to protest the policies of President Ronald Reagan. He was arrest and charged with violating a Texas law that prevented the desecration of a venerated object, including the American flag. The Court ruled that flag burning is symbolic speech that is protected by the First Amendment.

Marketplace of ideas – a society where all ideas can be expressed

First Amendment – Guarantees freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press; the right to assemble peacefully; and the right to petition the government

Second Amendment – Protects the right to possess firearms

Third Amendment – Declares that the government may not require people to house soldiers during peacetime.

Fourth Amendment – Protects people from unreasonable search and seizures

Fifth Amendment – Guarantees that no one maybe deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

Sixth Amendment – Guarantees the right to a trial by jury

Seventh Amendment – Guarantees the right to a trial by jury in most civil cases

Eighth Amendment – Prohibits excessive bail, fines, and punishments

Ninth Amendment – Declares that rights not mentioned in the Constitution belong to the people

Tenth Amendment – Declares that powers not given to the national government belong to the states or the people.

Chapter 6 Test Friday, January 30

Quiz on the Bill of Rights tomorrow

Field Trip 

February 12 at the Ocean State Theatre Jefferson Blvd Warwick, RI

9:30 am-1:30pm

With lunch at the Hong Kong Buffet Cranston Street, Cranston, RI

The Meeting

This fascinating and dramatically compelling play, depicts the imagined meeting of two of the most significant men of modern times: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Differing in their philosophies, but alike in their desire for equality, the two men debate their conflicting approaches to the same grave social problems. Both understand they may have to give their life for their beliefs, but neither is aware of how soon their assassins' bullets would await them. In time to celebrate Black History Month, this thought provoking play takes an intimate look at two larger than life figures. 

This week we are studying the Bill of Rights

Answer questions 1-4 and Key Terms on page 170 

due Thursday, January 15