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Unit VII Lesson 6
Equal Protection and the 14th
Amendment
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Essential Question:
• What are the basic civil rights
and liberties of Americans?
• How have significant decisions
of the Supreme Court affected
our basic rights?
• What are the strengths and
weaknesses of court decisions
as instruments of social
change?
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Selective
Incorporation
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1868
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The 14th Amendment- 1) Grants citizenship to
any person born in the U.S. regardless of race
Property
Dred Scott
Dred Scott
v Sanford
“Citizenship”
1857
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside”
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The 14th Amendment- 2) Grants equal protection under the law to all
Americans (States and the National government can’t make laws that affect people differently because of their race, age, gender, etc.)
“Equal
Protection
Clause”
“Under
the Law”
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1789
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“Vagrancy”
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Unconstitutional
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Brown vs. the Board of Education (1954) - The Supreme Court
rules that segregation in public schools is a violation of the 14th
Amendment’s “Equal Protection Clause”
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Linda Brown
“Separate educational facilities
are, by their very nature,
UNEQUAL”
Brown v Board of
Education
“Equal
Protection
Clause”
Plessy v
Ferguson
1896 1954
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“Equal Protection
Clause”
Unconstitutional
1972
“Equal Protection
Under the Law”
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In the Constitution the concept of equal
protection of the law is referred to in:
A.The Preamble
B.The 2nd, 4th, and 6th Amendments
C.Article III
D.The 14th Amendment
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Following the Civil War the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States
Constitution was designed to overturn:
A.Dred Scott v. Sanford
B.Plessy v. Ferguson
C.The Emancipation Proclamation
D.The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Homework!!!
Textbook Pages: 524-
539
Graphic Novel Pages:
120-126, 133-134