| A | B |
|---|
| 1st Amendment | Freedom of Religion, Press, Speech, Assembly, Petition |
| 2nd Amendment | Right to bear firearms |
| 4th Amendment | No Illegal Searches |
| 5th Amendment | Due Process of Law (like process of being arrested and tried for a crime) |
| 7th Amendment | Right to Jury Trial |
| 13th Amendment | Ends Slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Equal Rights / Equal Protection for all Citizens (focus on African Americans) |
| 15th Amendment | Right to Vote (Suffrage)- males of any race |
| 17th Amendment | Direct Election of Senators (Progressive Reform- gives regular people more power in government) |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition of Alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | Women's Suffrage (voting rights) |
| Monroe Doctrine | Said the USA would "protect" all the Western Hemisphere from European colonization. |
| Dred Scott Decision (Scott v Sanford) | Supreme court case that said even if a slave was taken to a free state they could not claim they were free. This helped to lead to the Civil War. |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | "Separate but Equal”, Said it was ok to segregate whites and blacks as long as they had “separate but equal” facilities (It made Jim Crow Laws legal). |
| Brown vs Board of Education | “desegregation”, The Supreme Court said that the segregation of schools into all black and white schools was unconstitutional. |
| 16th Amendment | federal income tax can now be collected to pay for progressive reforms. |
| Miranda v Arizona | Supreme Court says that a list of rights |
| Roe v Wade | This ruling in favor of abortion rights expands individual |
| University of California Regents v . Bakke | Affirmative action and reverse discrimination |
