Civil Liberties are limitations on the power of government, designed to ensure personal freedoms.

Civil Rights guarantees equal treatment by government authorities

The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because key states refused to ratify the Constitution unless it was added.

The Fourteenth Amendment was critically important for civil liberties because it helped start the process of selective incorporation/implementation of the Bill of Rights.

Mendez v Westminster was about ______.

According to the book segregation by virtue of “Red lining” districts where minorities were allowed and not allowed to live. Restrictive real-estate covenants bound White residents to not sell their house to African Americans and sometimes not to Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Filipinos, Jews and other ethnic minorities

The equal protection clause became part of the Constitution as a result of the Fourteenth Amendment

The Bill of Rights are the first 50 amendments in the Constitution

Purple codes were designed to reduce formerly enslaved people to the status of serf or indentured servants.

The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced removal of the Cherokee tribe from Georgia to Oklahoma.