PART ONE
1776: The Declaration of Independence
What is it:
The Declaration of Independence was made for our
independence from Britain and the foundational ideal
of equality for all.
It promotes tolerance of our independence from
Britain and the foundational ideal of equality for all.
1787: The United States Constitution
What is it:
The United States Constitution made the branches of
the government and each one’s responsibilities to the
people.
It promotes tolerance of freedom, acceptance and
equality by establishing 3 branches of the
government.
1789: Bill of Rights (Amendment 1)
What is it:
The Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments,
guarantees some important individual rights that
promote equality and tolerance
It promotes tolerance of equality by giving the
peoples a list of rights that are like opinions for a
suspect/ criminal.
1865: Amendment 13
What is it:
This Amendment ended slavery in the United States;
it did not guarantee tolerance
It promotes tolerance of fairness, equality and
acceptance of a person’s race by ending slavery.
1868: Amendment 14
What is it:
This Amendment states that anyone born or
naturalized in the United States, except Native
Americans, is a citizen and that no state can take
away one’s national citizenship.
It promotes tolerance of equality by giving anyone
born in the U.S except Native Americans citizenship.
1870: Amendment 15
What is it:
This Amendment was made illegal to deny the right
to vote to anyone based on someone’s race.
It promotes tolerance of equality by giving everyone
a chance whatever their race.
1920: Amendment 19
What is it:
This Amendment guarantees women the right to vote.
It promotes tolerance of equality between women
men by giving them a chance vote.
1924: The Snyder Act
What is it:
The Indian Citizenship Act, granted full United
States citizenship to Native Americans.
It promotes tolerance of acceptance by giving Native
Americans a citizenship which also gives them their
rights.
1971: Amendment 26
What is it:
Amendment 26 grants the right to vote to anyone 18
and older.
It promotes tolerance of acceptance of the young
adults by letting them vote.
1964: The Civil Rights Act
What is it:
This significant piece of legislation made
discrimination, including racial segregation, illegal.
It promotes tolerance of equality between races by
making discrimination and racial segregation illegal.
1990: Americans with Disabilities Act
What is it:
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights
law that makes discrimination of those with
disabilities illegal.
It promotes tolerance of equality and fairness by
making discrimination against people with
disabilities illegal.
PART THREE
2.04 Searching for Signs of Tolerance
Directions: For this activity, you need to find two adults
to interview. Please be sure to interview one adult male
and one adult female. Ask each person the questions listed
on this interview sheet. Record the answers for each
interview on a separate piece of paper, or print out two
copies of the interview sheet, one for each interview.
Make sure that you fill out the answers to the questions
during the interview.
Your Name: Valerie Zapata
Person Interviewed: Brigitte Barbosa
Relationship to me: Mom
Age: 44
Interview Purpose:
You are trying to learn several things from the people you
interview:
What do they already know about the role of the
government in ensuring a tolerant and equal society?
I don’t know anything about that.
What personal experiences do they have with
tolerance?
When my daughter’s went through their terrible twos.
What examples of tolerance or intolerance from our
history are most powerful to them?
To me the most powerful intolerance from our history
was 9/11. Osama Bin Laden hit the twin towers to send
us a message and we just missed it.
What do they think about the status of tolerance
today?
I think people are being more tolerant of other cultures,
sexual preferences, race and religion.
Interview Questions:
Please choose at least two of the three questions in each
area. You should ask the same questions to both people.
Tolerance throughout History
1. 1. Identify an instance or period from our history
that you feel demonstrates intolerance. Do you
believe that the intolerance was overcome? If so,
how? If not, please explain.
Slavery was definitely overcome but after slavery it
was discrimination. As said in amendment 13 “This
Amendment ended slavery in the United States; it did
not guarantee tolerance”
1. 2. Have you ever witnessed intolerance? If so,
please share what happened and how the situation
was resolved.
No
1. 3. Which of the tolerance-increasing amendments
or legislative acts has affected your life? Share a
clean and neat version of your note-taking organizer
with them if they need a reminder of the
amendments.
None
Role of Government
1. 1. How does the United States Constitution promote
tolerance and equality? Share a clean and neat version
of your note-taking organizer with them if they need a
reminder of the amendments.
Creating rights for people.
1. 2. How do the law and legislative acts ensure
tolerance and equality? Share a clean and neat
version of your note-taking organizer with them if
they need a reminder of the amendments and
legislative acts.
It creates a controlled environment for everyone to
live in.
1. 3. Who do you think is responsible for teaching and
ensuring tolerance?
The government is responsible for teaching and
ensuring tolerance.
Tolerance Today
1. 1. In what ways, if any, does our society need to be
more tolerant? Think about gender, age, notions of
what makes a family, ideas of what makes someone
valuable, attractive, interesting, worth listening to,
etc.
In the everyday life, at work, school and home. With
everyone and without discrimination of religion, race,
age and gender etc.
1. 2. How can we achieve tolerance in the areas
identified? What can we do to achieve tolerance?
Obeying the legislative laws, education and respect for
others.
1. 3. What are some signs that we have become a
more tolerant equal society?
We live in peace in the majority of the countries.
Person Interviewed: Edgar Barbosa
Relationship to me: uncle
Age: 49
Interview Purpose:
You are trying to learn several things from the people you
interview:
What do they already know about the role of the
government in ensuring a tolerant and equal society?
There are laws for that to ensure equality
What personal experiences do they have with
tolerance?
Working and living with different cultures.
What examples of tolerance or intolerance from our
history are most powerful to them?
Intolerance how the colonist made the Indians move to
the other land
What do they think about the status of tolerance
today?
Tolerance in the U.S is pretty good.
Interview Questions:
Please choose at least two of the three questions in each
area. You should ask the same questions to both people.
Tolerance throughout History
2. 1. Identify an instance or period from our history
that you feel demonstrates intolerance. Do you
believe that the intolerance was overcome? If so,
how? If not, please explain.
Racism of course we have an African American
president showing how far we have come.
2. 2. Have you ever witnessed intolerance? If so,
please share what happened and how the situation
was resolved.
No
2. 3. Which of the tolerance-increasing amendments
or legislative acts has affected your life? Share a
clean and neat version of your note-taking organizer
with them if they need a reminder of the
amendments.
The right to vote.
Role of Government
2. 1. How does the United States Constitution promote
tolerance and equality? Share a clean and neat version
of your note-taking organizer with them if they need a
reminder of the amendments.
The 15th Amendment was made illegal to deny the
right to vote to anyone based on someone’s race.
2. 2. How do the law and legislative acts ensure
tolerance and equality? Share a clean and neat
version of your note-taking organizer with them if
they need a reminder of the amendments and
legislative acts.
2. 3. Who do you think is responsible for teaching and
ensuring tolerance?
The parents of someone
Tolerance Today
2. 1. In what ways, if any, does our society need to be
more tolerant? Think about gender, age, notions of
what makes a family, ideas of what makes someone
valuable, attractive, interesting, worth listening to,
etc.
Basically we are very tolerant towards ugly people.
2. 2. How can we achieve tolerance in the areas
identified? What can we do to achieve tolerance?
Add, TV, media in all needs to start putting more
regular people in front of the camera. If they stop
putting beautiful on all the adds in the media and use
regular people we’d achieve equality really fast.
2. 3. What are some signs that we have become a
more tolerant and equal society?
There are more and more interactional marriages.
What were your thoughts on the role of the
government in promoting and ensuring tolerance
before doing this project?
I never thought about it.
What was your interview experience like? What
did your interview subjects already know about the
role of the Constitution and the law? What new
things were you able to share with them?
I liked interviewing I found out neither my mom
nor my uncle very much about politics. I got to tell
them about the amendments.
What did you learn from the interviews that
surprised you?
That my uncle did know much.
Which interview(s) provided you with the most
interesting information?
Both of them together gave me a lot of
information.
Identify one response with which you agreed.
My mom said, “It creates a controlled environment for
everyone to live in.”
Identify one response that challenged the way that
you were thinking of the issue or idea.
The question was Who do you think is responsible
for teaching and ensuring tolerance? And my uncle
put the parents of somebody
After talking with these two adults, which
amendment or legislative act has had the most
significant impact on tolerance today?
The right to vote for men and women.
Summary:
My thoughts on the role of the government in
promoting and ensuring tolerance were that I never
thought about government before doing this
project. In this project I liked to interview people. I
found out neither my mom nor my uncle knew very
much about politics. I got to teach them about the
amendments, the bill of rights and the constitution.
What surprised me the most was that my uncle didn’t
know that much about politics. Both of the interviews
together gave me a lot of information. One response I
agreed with was my mom’s when she responded to the
question How do the law and legislative acts ensure
tolerance and equality? “It creates a controlled
environment for everyone to live in.”