1. Chapter 11: Civil Rights
Under the united states constitution, Americans have both rights and responsibilities.

2. Section 1: Civil Rights & Discrimination
The Constitution is designed to guarantee basic civil rights to everyone. The meaning of civil rights has changed over time, and many groups have been denied their civil rights at different times in U.S. history.

3. How do you think the Civil Rights movement has affected your life?
Do Now

4. What are civil rights? Learning Goals Objectives
Essential Question
Describe civil rights, and how civil rights in the U.S. changed over time.
Explain how the pattern of discrimination affected the civil rights of some groups in U.S. history.
What are civil rights?
Learning Goals

6. I. Civil Rights in the U.S. What are Civil Rights?
Fair & Equal Treatment
Free from discrimination
Vote, run for office, public life
How have Civil Rights Changed
Declaration of Independence
African-American, Native American, Women
I. Civil Rights in the U.S.

7. II. A pattern of discrimination
Prejudice: Negative opinion formed w/out just grounds.
Racism: Discrimination & unfair treatment based on race.
African Americans
Jim Crow laws
Native Americans
Reservation: Forced area to live as “tribe”, no longer required.
Asian Americans
Japanese American Internment: During WW2 Japanese Americans forced to live in camps.

8. Section 2: Equal Justice under Law
The 14th Amendment was designed to bolster civil rights by requiring states to guarantee to freed slaves “the equal protection of the laws.” However, African Americans and women still struggled to win equal treatment in American society.

9. Do Now
Is not allowing women into combat roles in the military a violation of the equal protection clause? Explain your answer.

10. Learning Goals
Essential Question
Objectives
Describe what is meant by equal protection of the law.
Explain the civil rights laws passed after the Civil War, and why they failed to end segregation.
Analyze how women fought for and won voting rights.
Describe the events that began to roll back racial and ethnic segregation in the U.S.
Why do you think the new amendments and laws passed after the Civil War failed to end segregation?

12. I. Equal Protection of the Law
Equal Protection Clause: No state can deny equal protection of the laws.
Reasonable Distinction: Can distinguish between groups such as “out-of-state” but not by eye color.
Rational Basis Test: 16 to drive, 21 to drink
Intermediate Scrutiny: Selective service or military combat.
Strict Scrutiny Test: right being denied on based on race or national origin.

13. Activity: Part 1
You and your partner will need to decide on an issue that you feel is not being equally protected by the law. Explain your reasons behind your choice (3 Reasons).
(Examples)
Healthcare
Incarceration
Islamic Immigration Ban
Undocumented Worker Deportation

14. II. Laws & segregation post civil war
Segregation: Separation of racial groups.
Jim Crow Laws: Segregation laws passed in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Separate-but-equal-doctrine: Laws requiring separate facilities for racial groups could be legal so long as the facilities were equal. (Plessy v. Ferguson)

15. Activity: Part 2
You and your partner have been charged with presenting your issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. You need to write a ½ page brief to be presented to the court at the end of class. (Supreme Court = Fellow Students).

16. III. Rolling Back Segregation
Suffrage: Right to vote.
Seneca Falls Convention: 1st women’s rights convention.
De Jure Segregation: Segregation by law.
Desegregation: Ending the formal separation of groups based on race.
De facto Segregation: Segregation without laws that require it.

17. Activity: Part 3
Each group will have their speaker come to the front of the room and read their brief to the Supreme Court (The rest of the class).

18. Section 3: Civil Rights Laws
In the 1950s and 1960s, an organized movement demanding civil rights changed American society and led to a series of new federal laws that protected the civil rights of African Americans and other groups.
Section 3: Civil Rights Laws

19. Is Civil Disobedience different from criminal activity? Explain.
Do Now

20. Objectives Essential Question
Describe the civil rights movement, and what effects it had on American society.
Analyze new federal laws passed in response to the civil rights movement.
Explain how affirmative action policies were part of the civil rights movement.
Why were the civil rights laws of the 1960s more effective than earlier legislation?
Learning Goals

22. I. The civil rights movement
Civil Rights Movement: Mass movement in the 50s & 60s to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
Civil Disobedience: Nonviolent refusals to obey the law as a way to advocate change.

23. Activity: Part I
You and your partner will be creating a new civil rights law.
One of you will be the recorder and the other will present the law to Congress (AKA: the class).
Come to an agreement about a civil rights issue you feel needs addressed today.
EX: Transgender rights, Muslim protections, Free speech protections, Women’s Rights

24. ii. New Federal Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Equal Pay Act of 1963: Employers must offer equal pay to men & women doing the same work.
Desegregation of Hispanic schools in California: Hispanics & whites had attended segregated schools.
Americans with Disabilities Act: Prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities.

25. Activity: Part II
You and your partner will need to come up with reasons to support your new civil rights agenda and why it is needed. (Minimum of 3 ideas & 2 Reasons it is needed)

26. iii. Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action: Policy that requires employers & institutions to provide opportunities for certain minorities.
Reverse Discrimination: Discrimination against the majority group.
Quota: A fixed number or percentage of minorities needed to fulfill affirmative action.

27. Congress voted against your new civil rights law.
Activity: Part III
Congress voted against your new civil rights law.
What types of civil disobedience can you engage in to promote your cause to the masses.

28. Section 4: Citizenship & Immigration
Being a U.S. citizen includes certain rights & responsibilities. The federal government regulates citizenship through its immigration and naturalization policies.

29. Is illegal immigration right or wrong?
Do Now

30. Objectives
Essential Question
Describe the ways people receive U.S. citizenship, and what civil responsibilities they have.
Analyze immigration policies adopted by the federal government.
Explain how the federal government responded to the challenge of illegal immigration.
How do you think national immigration policies affect local communities and states?
Learning Goals

32. I. U.s. citizenship
Jus Soli: Citizenship by birthplace (law of the soil)
Jus Sangunis: Citizenship by parents (law of the blood)
Naturalization: Legal process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen.
Denaturalization: Lose citizenship by lying during naturalization process.
Expatriation: Legally giving up one’s citizenship.

33. II. Illegal immigration
Undocumented Alien: An unauthorized immigrant.
Deportation: Legal process of forcing a noncitizen to leave a country.
Debate over Illegal Immigration
Do they actually take jobs?
Is this what the pilgrims did?
Can terrorists get in illegally?

34. The vast majority of Americans become citizens by naturalization.
To have citizenship through the principle of jus soli means that a person has parents who are citizens of the United States.
A naturalized citizen can lose his or her citizenship though the process of deportation.
In 2007 an estimated 12 million naturalized citizens were living in the United States.