ps quiz 8

Which Reconstruction amendment created U.S. citizenship for recently freed slaves and overturned the Dred Scott decision?

14th Amendment

Which amendment grants women the right to vote?

19th Amendment

Which constitutional amendment prohibits poll taxes?

24th Amendment

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that Illinois did not violate the 14th amendment privileges and immunities clause when it refused to accept Myra Bradwell into the state bar because she was a woman

Bradwell v. Illinois (1872)

In this case, the Supreme Court ordered segregated public school be desegregated and overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Which law prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering the United States?

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Which law authorized the President to allot tribal lands to individual Indians and make surplus land available to White settlers?

Dawes Act (1887)

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans could not become citizens of the United States?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Which clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizens "the equal protection of the laws?"

Equal protection clause

In which case did the Supreme Court establish the right to privacy?

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law prohibiting interracial marriage violated the 14th Amendment equal protection clause

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Civil rights are

Obligations imposed on government to take positive action to protect citizens from any illegal action of government agencies and of other private citizens

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled Louisiana could legally segregate public railways and created the "separate but equal" doctrine

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the right to privacy includes a woman's decision to have an abortion?

Roe v. Wade (1973)