Lesson 6.5 by Annalise Goulding https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/chdnka04t6rn en-us 2019-04-29 14:49:09 UTC 2019-04-29 14:58:33 UTC hello@padlet.com What restrictions, if any, should be placed on our constitutional rights and freedoms? annalise_goulding https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/chdnka04t6rn/wish/355042731 -Discrimination occurs when some people are treated differently than others because of their membership in a group based on some shared characteristic—like their race, age, gender, religion, or appearance.
-the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery in 1865 and the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race, segregation and discrimination based on color persisted.
-The Brown decision reflected decades of work to reduce discrimination. It also was a powerful catalyst to expand the civil rights movement.
- These leaders and countless less famous Americans held sit-ins at restaurant lunch counters that served only whites—that is, they sat in seats reserved for whites and refused to move.
-In 1954 the Supreme Court made it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment protects people based on national origin, not just based on race. The case was Hernandez v. Texas. Pete Hernandez, a Mexican American, was convicted of murder by an all-white jury.

]]> 2019-04-29 14:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/chdnka04t6rn/wish/355042731 Why are the freedoms in the Bill of Rights and later amendments essential to our democracy? annalise_goulding https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/chdnka04t6rn/wish/355042926 -The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, and the Fifteenth Amendment said that the right to vote could not be restricted based on race or color.
-fourteen amendment:
  1. Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
  2. Guaranteed due process of law from all state governments.
  3. Guaranteed equal protection of the laws from all state governments
-The Fourteenth Amendment, however, did not grant citizenship to Native Americans.
-the Fourteenth Amendment was used to overturn several laws that overtly discriminated against a specific racial group, such as a ban on African Americans from serving on a jury.
-Substantive due process means that the laws themselves have to be fair. A law or government action cannot unreasonably interfere with a fundamental or basic right.
-In most discrimination cases that go to court, judges use the rational basistest. Using this test, judges will uphold a law or practice that treats some people differently than others if there is a rational basis for the different treatment.
-In gender discrimination cases, courts use the substantial relationship test—a middle ground between rational basis and strict scrutiny.


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