US HISTORY HONORS

Week 1: Monday 3/30 – Friday 4/3

Standard: Understand the rise and continuing international influence of the United States as a world
leader and the impact of contemporary social and political movements on American life.
Benchmark:
SS.912.A.7.8: Analyze significant Supreme Court decisions relating to integration, busing, affirmative
action, the rights of the accused, and reproductive rights.
SS.912.A.7.6: Assess key figures and organizations in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and
Black Power Movement.
Name:Hellen Silva
Period: 6
Edpuzzle Intro Activity
Directions: Log into Edpuzzle and watch the video/complete the embedded questions. Answers
will be reviewed in that platform.

Vocabulary
Directions: Per usual, use your textbook/the internet to complete the definition and significance
of each term.
Vocab Term Definition & Significance

1. Warren Court the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States that
effectively ended racial segregation in U.S. public schools, expanded the
constitutional rights of defendants, ensured equal representation in state
legislatures, outlawed state-sponsored prayer in public schools, and paved
the way for the legalization of abortion.
2. Thurgood Marshall the Court's first African-American. — played an instrumental role in
promoting racial equality during the civil rights movement.

3. Brown v. Board of Supreme Court case in 1954 in which the justices ruled unanimously that
Education racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional;
overturned the case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) which established the idea of
“separate but equal”
4. Brown II It was a Supreme Court case decided in 1955. the Court ordered them to
integrate their schools "with all deliberate speed.”

5. Baker v. Carr It was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court
held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question, thus enabling
federal courts to hear redistricting cases.

6. Reynolds v. Sims It was a Supreme Court case that ruled unanimously that a law banning
polygamy was constitutional, and did not infringe upon individuals' First
Amendment right to free exercise of religion.

7. Mapp v. Ohio U.S. Supreme Court on June 19, 1961, ruled that evidence obtained in
violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits
“unreasonable searches and seizures,” is inadmissible in state courts.
8. Gideon v. U.S. Supreme Court on March 18, 1963, ruled that states are required to
Wainwright provide legal counsel to indigent defendants charged with a felony.

9. Escobedo v. Illinois United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a
right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment.

10. Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court case in 1966 which prevented prosecutors from using
 interrogation statements made by suspects without the formal
communication of their fifth amendment rights (silence, council, etc.); later
becomes known as a person’s Miranda rights
11. Abington v. U.S. Supreme Court on June 17, 1963, ruled that legally or officially
Schempp mandated Bible reading or prayer in public schools is unconstitutional.

12. Engel v. Vitale a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that
it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer
and encourage its recitation in public schools.

13. Griswald v. It was a landmark case in the United States about access to contraception.
Connecticut

Vocab Term Definition & Significance

14. Loving v. Virginia A Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial
marriage in the United States.

15. Katz v. United A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court redefined
States what constitutes "searches" and "seizures" with regard to the protections of
the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

16. De Jure Segregation that is sanctioned by law, such as Jim Crow laws which were
Segregation legalized by Plessy v. Ferguson and the idea of “separate but equal”

17. De Facto Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact”
Segregation rather than by legal requirement.

18. Liberal v. Conservatism is opposition to rapid changes, and supports keeping

Conservative traditions in society. And. Liberal mean someone who looks ahead and not
behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone
who cares about the welfare of the people.

Short Video
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZoNqepKz4
Directions: Using the video, answer the following questions.
1. What was the impact of the Brown v. Board decision on society?
It is the begin of a new era in which the court actually is involved in protection of rights and
equality. It shows that the constitution prohibits segregation in school.

2. Why does the court have Brown v. Board Two? What is the impact?
The Brown v. Board two is to make a decision about the changes in schools since segregation
is unconstitutional. The impact is an expected change in schools.

3. Describe “Massive Resistance:”

Because in the proclamation of the court it doesn’t explain the need or expectations of change
in segregated schools, in the south, they decide not to desegregate the schools.
 4. What sorts of rights does the Warren Court begin to uphold? Provide at least ONE example
to support your explanation.
Right to vote.
South Carolina v Katzenbach case.

Court Case Activity:

Directions: Using viable sites on the internet (NOT Wikipedia) and your textbook, you are to
research TWO Supreme Court cases of your choice from the vocab. Then, you have a choice to
complete ONE of the following options.
1. Write a double-spaced one page summary 2. Create a 6 box cartoon strip for each case
of both cases (1 inch margin, double (so a 6 box cartoon per case for a total of
spaced, 12pt Times New Roman; you may 12 boxes). Cartoons need at least 2 colors,
exceed one page, but not be less than). may use captions and words, and must
Paper must include background of the include background of the case, ruling and
case, ruling and justification, short/long justification, short/long term effects and
term effects and connection to an connection to an amendment. You can
amendment. You must provide an MLA either digitally create this, or draw it on
works cite page,which does not count paper and snap a picture and scan/attach
towards your one page minimum. For it. MUST be school appropriate!
citation help, use the link below.
Works Cited Help:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla
_works_cited_page_basic_format.html
Court Case Activity Student Work
Write/create your product in this blank box.

Mapp vs. Ohio

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 19, 1961, ruled (6–3) that evidence obtained in violation
of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits “unreasonable searches and
seizures,” is inadmissible in state courts.
The case originated in Cleveland, Ohio, when police officers forced their way into Dollree
Mapp's house without a proper search warrant. Police believed that Mapp was harboring a
suspected bomber, and demanded entry. No suspect was found, but police discovered a trunk
of obscene evidence in Mapp's basement. Dollree Mapp was convicted of possessing obscene
photographs after an admittedly illegal police search of her home for a fugitive. She appealed
her conviction on the basis of freedom of expression. . Mapp was convicted in an Ohio court.
Mapp argued that her Fourth Amendment rights had been violated by the search, and
eventually took her appeal to United States Supreme Court. At the time of the case unlawfully
seized evidence was banned from federal courts but not state courts.
This case have great importance to American society due to it’s protection of civil’s right,
in this case, based on the Forth amendment.

Loving vs. Virginia

On June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state
antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due
process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The case arose after Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed
African American and Native American ancestry, traveled from their residences in Central
Point, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., to be married on June 2, 1958. Having returned to Central
Point, they lived in the home of Mildred’s parents while Richard, a construction worker, built a
new house for the couple. In July 1958, police entered the Lovings’ bedroom in the early
morning hours and arrested them for having violated the state’s ban on interracial marriage.
At a hearing in a Virginia state court in January 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to having
violated Section 20-58 of the Virginia state code, which prohibited a “white” person and a
“colored” person from leaving the state to be married and returning to live as man and wife.
Section 20-58 specified that punishment for violation of the law—confinement in the state
penitentiary for one to five years—should be the same as that provided in Section 20-59, which
prohibited marriage between “white” and “colored” persons. The term “white person” was
defined in Section 20-54 as a person with “no other admixture of blood other than white and
American Indian,” provided that the amount of Indian blood was one-sixteenth or less; the
term “colored person” was defined in Section 1-14 as a person “in whom there is ascertainable
any Negro blood.” Sections 20-59 and 20-54 were derived from provisions of the state’s Act to
Preserve Racial Integrity, adopted in 1924.
The judge sentenced the Lovings to one year in jail but suspended the sentence on
the condition that the couple leave the state immediately and not return as man and wife for a
period of 25 years. Having established residence in Washington, D.C., the Lovings filed suit in a
Virginia state court in November 1963, seeking to overturn their convictions on the grounds
that Sections 20-58 and 20-59 were inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment. After the
state court rejected the Lovings’ challenge, the case was accepted for review by Virginia’s
Supreme Court of Appeals, which upheld the constitutionality of 20-58 and 20-59 but voided
the sentences because the condition under which they were suspended was, in its view,
“unreasonable.” Citing its earlier decision in Naim v. Naim (1965), the appeals court ruled that,
despite the statutes’ use of racial classifications to define the criminal offenses in question,
neither statute violated the guarantee of equal protection of the laws because the penalties
they imposed applied equally to both “white” and “colored” persons. The Lovings then
appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on April 10, 1967.
Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Earl Warren reversed the Lovings’
convictions. He first dismissed the Naim court’s reading of the equal protection clause,
declaring that “we reject the notion that the mere ‘equal application’ of a statute containing
racial classifications is enough to remove the classifications from the Fourteenth Amendment’s
proscription of all invidious racial discriminations.” Accordingly, he rejected Virginia’s
contention that the constitutionality of the statutes, given their presumptive compatibility with
the equal protection clause, should depend solely on whether they served a rational purpose—
a question best left to the wisdom of the state legislature, Virginia argued, in light of doubtful
scientific evidence. To the contrary, Warren insisted, citing Korematsu v. United States (1944),
“the Equal Protection Clause demands that racial classifications, especially suspect in criminal
statutes, be subjected to the ‘most rigid scrutiny’”—in contrast to the less-demanding
“rational-basis” standard—“and, if they are ever to be upheld, they must be shown to be
necessary to the accomplishment of some permissible state objective, independent of the
racial discrimination which it was the object of the Fourteenth Amendment to eliminate.” Yet,
he continued, “there is patently no legitimate overriding purpose independent of invidious
racial discrimination which justifies this classification.”
 Court Case Primary Sourcing:
Directions: Read each primary source and answer the question that follows. Be sure to answer in
complete sentences and justify your answer with evidence, sound reasoning and logic on the
chart provided.
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 Chart for Primary Source Answers
Match the number on the primary source to the number on the chart (I realize they are not
traditional 1, 2, 3, 4…). Remember to answer the questions fully, use complete sentence and
support your answer with evidence, sound reason and logic.
Questio Response
n
1a
The Warren court revolutionized constitutional law and the society by providing
guaranteed equal voting rights, criticize the segregation.

1b That it produced/empowered hostility and disobedience of civil rights advocates,

communist agitators, criminals and others.

2 It gave courage and power to those who were hiding before, now live and act as
American citizens without lawful discrimination

3 It was the beginning of the progress in desegregation in society, and an open door
for discussion of civil rights.

5
In launch time prayers for games, and the moments of silence at the beginning of
the day.

8
They have hampered the criminal justice system’s capacity to convict guilty
offenders.
 Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
Directions: Below is chronological series of cause and effect flowcharts. Complete each chart
using the lettered “effect” options listed. Simply put the corresponding letter blank portion of the
flow chart. Then, answer the wrap-up questions using complete sentences.

Effects
A Many served in the military, supporting
the “Double V Campaign,” looking for
victory abroad and at home, while others,
like A. Phillip Randolph, fought for African
American laborers on the home front
BA. In the years that followed, Congress
passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment,
addresses the status of slavery and
African American citizenship and voting
C Eventually these laws were challenged in
court, and ultimately upheld by the
Supreme Court case Plessy v.
Ferguson(1896) on the acceptance of
“separate but equal”
D NAACP membership increased, legal
defense funds which paid for key lawsuits
such as Brown v. Board (1954) and color
barriers were broken as Jackie Robinson
became the 1st African American in the
MLB and Ralph Bunche the first African
American to win a Nobel Peace Prize
E Some examples include poll taxes, literacy
tests, the “Grandfather” clause and the
establishment of the sharecropping
system, all of which successfully limited
African American freedoms
F In response to the growing African
American advocacy movement, society
saw a resurgence of the KKK as well as
many racial riots, the most famous being
in Tulsa, OK.

1.
orth under the command of President Abrham
d victory over the Confederacy in the American ______
Civil War

2.
anAmericans attempted to integreate, Southern
known as "Black Codes" to undermind Federal ______
protections

3.
e known as "Jim Crow" laws, named after a minstrel character
ow was a negative depiction of African Americans; clumsy, old ______
and silly.

4.
pread after the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson. This led to the
ocacy groups such as the NAACP in 1909 and the rise of leaders ______
as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.DuBois
 D

5.
With the US entry into WWII, African Americans saw an opportunity to serve their
A nation and show their capabilities and patriotism to a racially divided nation ______

6.
d experiences of African Americans in WWII laid
______
on for the Civil Rights boom of the 1950-60's

Wrap-Up Questions
1. Between 1860-1960, describe two ways the African Americans were denied equality in the
United States:

“Separate but equal” and black codes are examples of how African American were denied
of their equal rights.

2. How did Supreme Court cases such as Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v. Board impact the
Civil Rights movement for African American? Be throughout in describing both.
Plessy v. Ferguson is an example of how unfair and unreal were the change in society and brown
v. Board was the real beginning of progress for civil rights.

Additional Support and Information:

Link: https://newrepublic.com/article/153208/conservatives-coming-war-warren-court
Read the article above to conservative response and action over the course of several decades
to the liberal decisions of the Warren Court.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJl8GXMfQyI
Watch the video for a thorough overview of the court and its impact. It includes info a little
outside of our study (1860-Present), but it’s still good stuff!

Link: https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/earl-warren
Read the article for a biographical summary of Earl Warren and his time serving the general
public.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcb3-KmkDpU
Watch the video for a through overview of the roots of the African American segregation and
oppression. Very descriptive!