Cases, Laws and Amendments: In addition to
the key identifications from each unit, complete
an ID card for each major case and law listed
below as well as each of the 27 amendments to
the Constitution
Amendments #1 - #27
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
(1952)
U.S. v. Nixon (1974)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights issues – discrimination, integration,
affirmative action, etc.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Freedom of Information Act of 1966
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
Equal Rights Amendment (1972 proposed)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954)
War Powers Act of 1973
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board
of Ed. (1971)
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor
Voter Act)
Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Regents of University of California v. Bakke
(1978)
Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Patriot Act of 2001
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
(McCain – Feingold Act)
1st Amendment - incorporation
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Reynolds v. U.S. (1879)
Schenck v. U.S. (1919)
Cases involving government power struggles
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Everson v. School Board of Education of Ewing
Township (1947)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
Slaughterhouse cases (1873)
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Abington v. Schempp (1963)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Miller v. California (1973)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Privacy – abortion, homosexuality
Oregon v. Smith (1990)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
U.S. v. Eichman (1990)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Reno v. ACLU (1997)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
Rights of the Accused, etc.
Wolf v. Colorado (1949)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Terry v. Ohio (1968)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
New Jersey v. TLO (1985)
Dickerson v. U.S. (2000)
Rasul v. Bush (2004)
Election/campaign issues
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
(2003)
Citizens United v. FEC (2010)