The Fourteenth Amendment

Question 1

Why did the Supreme Court expand the incorporation of the Bill of Rights?

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to ensure equal treatment for all citizens

Question 2

If two people of different ethnic backgrounds were guilty of the same crime, but only one of them were accused and tried, this would be a violation of

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due process and equal protection under the law.

Question 3

Which amendment resulted in the incorporation of the Bill of Rights?

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the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 4

Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.[N]or shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

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all states follow similar rules and legal processes.

Question 5

In the case Gitlow v. New York, Gitlow argued

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that his First Amendment rights were being violated.

Question 6

most

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African Americans were not protected under the law.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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federal law only.

Question 8

The enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states that Congress has the authority to

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make laws to apply the amendment.

Question 9

After the Civil War, the federal government began to extend civil rights to African Americans by

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passing amendments to the Constitution.

Question 10

The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says a naturalized person

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is a citizen, just like someone who was born in the United States.

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