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Unit Four: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights

Essential Question #1: How do Supreme Court decisions on the First and Second Amendments and the relationship of those amendments to the Fourteenth Amendment reflect a commitment to individual liberties?
Essential Question #2: How have the provisions in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment been interpreted to balance due process and the rights of the accused with public safety and national security?
​Essential Question #3: How do Supreme Court decisions on the First and Second Amendments and the relationship of those amendments to the Fourteenth Amendment reflect a commitment to individual liberties?

Essential Question #4: How have constitutional provisions, the Supreme Court, and citizen-state interactions led to laws and policies that promote equality?

​LESSON # 1:
INCORPORATION & THE
​2ND AMENDMENT
Lesson 1 PowerPoint Slides
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Lesson 1 Workbook Pages
Lesson 1 Cartoon Analysis
​Lesson 1 Videos:
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  • The 2nd Amendment (16:45)
  • McDonald v. Chicago (2010) (2:24)
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​LESSON # 4:
PRIVACY &
​ABORTION
Lesson 4 PowerPoint Slides
Lesson 4 Workbook Pages (NONE)
​Lesson 4 Videos:
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  • Roe v. Wade (10:51)
  • Planned Parenthood v. Casey (5:40)
  • Dobbs v. Jackson (6:35)
  • History of Abortion Law (5:36)
​LESSON # 2:
​1ST AMENDMENT

​Lesson 2 PowerPoint Slides
Lesson 2 Workbook Pages
​Lesson 2 Videos:​
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  • Freedom of Religion (6:47)
  • Freedom of Speech (6:51)
  • ​Freedom of the Press (7:16)




​LESSON # 5:
AFRICAN AMERICAN
​CIVIL RIGHTS
Lesson 5 PowerPoint Slides
Lesson 5 Workbook Pages
​Lesson 5 Videos:
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  • C-SPAN: ERA (6:27)
  • ​Women's Suffrage: Crash Course (13:31)
 
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 Explained (8:10)
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 Explained (10:31)
​LESSON # 3:
THE RIGHTS OF
​CRIMINAL SUSPECTS
Lesson 3 PowerPoint Slides
Lesson 3 Workbook Pages
​Lesson 3 Videos:
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  • Mapp v. Ohio & the Exclusionary Rule  (11:11)
  • Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) (4:58)​

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​LESSON # 6:
WOMEN &

​LGBTQ RIGHTS
Lesson 6 PowerPoint Slides
Lesson 6 Workbook Pages
​Lesson 6 Videos:
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  • C-SPAN: ERA (6:27)
  • ​Women's Suffrage: Crash Course (13:31)​
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​LESSON # 7
​The Judiciary
Lesson 7 PowerPoint Slides
Lesson 7 Workbook Pages
​Lesson 7 Videos:
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  • Structure of the Court System (6;59)
  • How a Case Gets to SCOTUS (5:05)
  • Federalist # 78 (4:20)
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  • Home
  • Units of Study
    • UNIT 1: FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
    • Unit 2: Political Ideologies & Beliefs
    • Unit 3: Political Participation
    • Unit 4: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
    • UNIT 5: INTERACTIONS AMONG BRANCHES
  • AP EXAM REVIEW