Enduring Constitution

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Enduring Constitution

• Chapter 7
• Lesson 28

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Agenda

• Objectives Students will be able to identify
  specifics of the Constitutional amendments and
  changes to our laws.
• Students will describe what each amendment
  states, their opinion of the good and bad aspects
  of each, and other facts.
• Essential Question Is the Constitution the best
  it could possible be?
• Standards Civics 2a, 2b, 4b
• History 1

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Todays topics

• End of Slavery
• Dred Scott
• Segregation and equality
• Plessy vs. Furguson
• Brown vs. Board of Ed
• Affirmative action

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End of Slavery

• Arguments over slavery
• Necessary evil Southern agriculture needs
  cheap labor
• Provides food, shelter, clothing for slaves
• - Inhuman way to treat people
• - our country is based on freedom and equality

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• Tension between North and South
• Argue over the issue
• Balance of power in Congress was key
• As new States join should they have slaves? North
  say no, South say yes.
• New States would upset the vote balance in
  Congress
• Missouri Compromise was passed, drew a line
  across the country. Above the line no slaves,
  below could have slaves.

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Dred Scott Case 1857

• A slave who was taken by has owner to a non-slave
  State (Illinois)
• When the owner moved back to Missouri Dred argued
  that he should be free as he was living in a free
  state.
• The case went to court and they ruled that he was
  property, as property he had no rights to take a
  case to court.
• Also ruled that owners can take property where
  ever they want without penalty.

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Segregation and equality

• Segregation- the separation of people by race.
• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• 1896
• Issue of railcar passengers being separate, did
  it violate equal protection laws?
• Court said it was okay so long as facilities were
  equal. Seperate but Equal is okay.

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New ruling 1954

• Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka. KS.
• Black girl had to got to school 21 blocks away,
  not to the school 1 block away because that was
  for white kids.
• Family argued that it was unequal
• Court agreed and Segregation became illegal
• New era of integration- getting blacks and
  whites mixing up again.

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Affirmative action

• A government policy to end years of racial and
  sex discrimination.
• Companies and other organizations have to hire
  minorities and fill ratios.
• Some argue this gets minorities jobs they dont
  deserve. Bad for them and companies
• Some argue it discriminates against white males.

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Classwork

• Complete
• Earnings gap page 199
• Debate issues exercise on page 204
• Homework
• Complete the Key terms and critical thinking page
  206
• Numbers 1 - 7