1. Civics and Government
Day 3 – Political Issues

2. CG.2.2 Analyze issues the brought change

3. Voting Rights, Education, Housing, & Employment
Day 3 – political Issues
Voting Rights, Education, Housing, & Employment
1960s
Martin Luther King Jr.
Citizens
Protests
Elect officials to pass laws

4. Voting Rights, Education, Housing, & Employment
Martin Luther King Jr.
Citizens
Protests
Elect officials to pass laws
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Sued the gov’t for equal access

5. Voting Rights, Education, Housing, & Employment
Martin Luther King Jr.
Citizens
Protests
Elect officials to pass laws
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Sued the gov’t for equal access
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination (work, school, in public)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Fair Housing Act of 1968
Prohibited discrimination

6. CG.1.3 Analyze Differing Viewpoints

7. “Traditional” Conservative Liberal “Open-Minded” Pro-Choice
Gun Control
For Same-Sex Marriage
For Medicaid, SNAP
Support High Taxes
Public Schools
For Affirmative Action
Anti Death Penalty
For Stem Cells
Believe in Climate Change
“Traditional”
Oppose Abortion
Gun Freedom
Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Oppose Medicaid, SNAP
Support Low Taxes
Charter Schools
Anti Affirmative Action
For Death Penalty
Anti Stem Cells
Climate Change is a hoax

8. Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
National Gov’t vs. State Gov’t
Federalists win

9. Healthcare Past 30 years Liberal: Gov’t should provide it for everyone
Conservative: Buy your own
Why and How do we form these ideas?
Majority of Americans in the middle class
Can’t afford healthcare
Gov’t does NOT give then free healthcare
Gov’t gives free healthcare
Can Afford the best Healthcare

10. Healthcare Immigration Past 30 years
Liberal: Gov’t should provide it for everyone
Conservative: Buy your own
Why and How do we form these ideas?
Immigration
Then and Now
Liberal: anyone can be a US citizen
Conservative: LEGAL immigration only
Geographical?

11. CG.2.2 Analyze issues the brought change
Use the internet to Research and then Explain:
Brown v Board of Education
Greensboro 4
Little Rock 9
Rosa Parks
Research a Topic using the internet
Write a paragraph on a sheet of paper that summarizes the event
Do this for all 4 events (graded)
2 event summaries are due by the end of class today
2 event summaries are due by the end of class tomorrow