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NAME:___________________________________________ DATE:_______
Worksheet #5 Civil Rights & Public Policy 1. What rights are guaranteed by Section 1 of the the 14th Amendment? ______________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is meant by equal protection of the laws?________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What are the Supreme Court's three basis of classification under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment? What "test" is used to determine whether the classification is allowed under the Constitution? a. Classification: ________________________________________ Test:________________________________________________ b. Classification:_________________________________________ Test:_____________________________________________ c. Classification:_________________________________________ Test:_____________________________________________ 4. What protections are guaranteed by the Thirteenth Amendment? _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What protections are guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment? ____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What protections are guaranteed by the Nineteenth Amendment? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What protections are granted by the Voting Rights Act of 1965? _____________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Define "comparable worth"________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What protections are granted under the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990?________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What was the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in the following cases: a.. Dred Scott v. Sandford___________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ How was it overruled?_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ b. Plessy v. Ferguson_____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ How was it overruled?____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ c. Brown v. Board of Education_______________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ How did it change american education?________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 11. What protections are granted under the Civil Rights Act of 1964? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What are poll taxes?___________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Which amendment now makes them unconstitutional? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide in the Korematsu v. U.S. case? ______________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ How did Congress respond to this decision? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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