This ToolBook answers the questions, "What is citizenship?" and "Is there any such thing as "second-class citizenship"?" The answers are found in the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. Teachers will also find: landmark cases, brief lectures, great graphic organizers, major documents, famous quotations, and tests that hit everything on your state test.
The "Civil Rights" ToolBook covers:
The 14th Amendment: The integration of schools.
- In Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) the Supreme Court decided that segregation was okay.
- In Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) the Supreme Court decided that segregation was not okay.
- How the Civil Rights movement won the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Affirmative action – action and reaction.
The 15th Amendment: How the Civil Rights movement won the right the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Acquiring citizenship: How a person becomes a naturalized citizen.
Memorable lessons from this ToolBook:
- The 14th Amendment: The Supreme Court ended segregation.
- The 15th Amendment: But more people died over the right to vote. (Think about that on Election Day!)
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| What is citizenship? | |
| #1 Group Analysis | What is civics? |
| #2 Group Analysis | What is citizenship? |
| The Fourteenth Amendment | |
| #3 Lecture | The 14th Amendment |
| #4 Group Analysis | The 14th Amendment |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
| #5 Lecture | Segregation: jim crow |
| #6 Chart | Segregation: terms and definitions |
| #7 Document | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #8 Group Analysis | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #9 Group Analysis | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | |
| #10 Lecture | Brown v. Board of Education |
| #11 Document | Brown v. Board of Education |
| #12 Political Cartoons | Brown v. Board of Education |
| #13 Group Analysis | Brown v. Board of Education |
| #14 Group Analysis | Brown v. Board of Education |
| #15 Game | Supreme Court cases on segregation |
| #16 Game | Supreme Court cases on segregation |
| The Civil Rights Movement | |
| #17 Lecture | The Civil Rights Movement |
| #18 Graphic Organizer | The Civil Rights Movement |
| #19 Graphic Organizer | What caused the Civil Rights movement? |
| Freedom of assembly | |
| #20 Lecture | The history of freedom of assembly (First Amendment) |
| #21 Chart | Limits to freedom of assembly |
| #22 Game | Supreme Court cases on freedom of assembly |
| #23 Quotations | On the right to protest |
| #24 Game | Freedom of assembly |
| #25 Game | Freedom of assembly |
| Test | Freedom of assembly: 48 questions |
| Civil disobedience | |
| #26 Group Analysis | Civil disobedience |
| #27 Political Cartoons | Civil disobedience |
| #28 Quotations | “On Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau |
| #29 Document | “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #30 Class Discussion | “Letter from Birmingham Jail” |
| Test | “Letter from Birmingham Jail”: 55 questions |
| #31 Group Analysis | Civil disobedience |
| #32 Group Analysis | On winning over your enemies |
| #33 Debate | “Resolved, sometimes it is necessary to break the law.” |
| Test | Civil disobedience: 16 questions |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
| #34 Outline | What were the results of the Civil Rights movement? |
| #35 Graphic Organizer | What did legal action and peaceful protests achieve? |
| #36 Lecture | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Affirmative Action | |
| #37 Lecture | The Bakke case (1978) |
| #38 Group Analysis | The Bakke case |
| #39 Chart | Supreme Court cases since Bakke |
| #40 Debate | "Resolved: Affirmative action is a good thing.” |
| Test | The 14th Amendment: 103 questions |
| The Fifteenth Amendment | |
| #41 Timeline | The Reconstruction Amendments were ignored by Southern states |
| The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
| #42 Timeline | How the Civil Rights movement won the right to vote. |
| #43 Political Cartoons | The right to vote |
| #44 Lecture | The Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| #45 Lecture | “Vote or Die” - P. Diddy |
| Test | The 15th Amendment: 28 questions |
| Acquiring citizenship | |
| #46 Group Analysis | Naturalization |
| #47 Internet | research How to become a naturalized citizen |
| #48 Internet | : sample test The Naturalization Test: Could you pass it? |
| #49 Lecture | with graphics The Red Scare (1919): When people feared immigrants |
| #50 Brief readings | The Red Scare (1919): Not a good time to be an immigrant |
| #51 Debate | “Resolved, we should close our doors to immigration.” |
| #52 Game | The ABCs of good citizenship (recall terms) |
| #53 Game | Citizenship (define terms) |
| Test | The individual’s role in a democracy: 40 questions |
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