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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/08/18131900-a-census-first-black-voter-turnout-passes-whites
The census has shown that black people have increased in their voting turnout while white people have been declining greatly.

What are three reasons why people choose not to vote?
-One reason is that the people are physically not able to arrive at the voting areas due to illness, disability, or voting area location inconvenience.
-Another reason is that people are "too busy" to vote
-The last, and usually most popular reason to not vote, is that people simply don't care about the elections or disliked the candidates.

What demographics are most likely to vote Democrat? Republican?
It is very typical for women, people of racial minorities(such as african americans), and people with lower income to vote for a democrat while it is more likely for a white, rich, male to vote for a republican.

H7

1. Civil Liberties v. Civil Rights: What's the difference?
1. Civil Liberties cover a more vast amount stuff like freedom of speech but civil rights are more specific like the basic equality of humans regardless of race sex, or gender.
2. Bill of Rights: Why have them? We have a Bill of Rights so that the members of government don't have total control. If there was no Bill of Rights, Congress could create laws that violate our basic liberties and rights.
3. First Amendment: What are the five freedoms? The five freedoms are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition.
4. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971): What's the point of the Lemon test? The point of the Lemon test is to determine when a law has the effect of establishing religion.
5. Engel v. Vitale (1962): What did the Court say? The court said in this case that there is no school-led prayer allowed during school.
6. What is due process? Due process is the fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair to everyone.
7. What is selective incorporation? Selective incorporation is the legal code that protects the rights of citizens from state laws.
8. Establishment clause v. free exercise clause: What's the difference? The difference is that establishment clause prohibits the government from imposing a religion that all citizens must follow and the free exercise clause says you can practice any religion you want without the government stopping you.

H11

1. Discuss and evaluate the difference between equal opportunity and equal results.
1. Equal opportunity is the chance to have an opportunity that everybody else also has but depending on what you do you might not get the same results as everybody else.
2. What did the 13th amendment say?
1. The 13th amendment abolished slavery.
3. What did the 15th amendment say?
1.  It said that no U.S citizen can be denied the right to vote.
4. What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws? 
1. The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to deprive African-Americans from receiving the same rights as white people like voting rights, due process, and equal protection under the law.
5. What's the difference between de jure and de facto segregation
1. De jure segregation is segregation that is approved by the government while de facto segregation is segregation that is not officially legal but is practiced nonetheless.
6. Identify major provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1. Some provisions of this act are that it banned any segregation in a public area, and allowed the Attorney General to sue any school systems that had segregated schools.
7. Identify major provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1. Some provisions of the Voting RIghts Act of 1965 were that it allowed for any citizen to vote without having to take a literacy test like in the past. Also, if there were major minorities, a ballot had to be bilingual and there could be no change to the voting unless it's approved by the Attorney General.
8. Explain how states used white primaries to enforce discrimination.
1. White primaries allowed for southerners to declare that the Democratic party was a private group that could exclude anybody it wanted.
9. Explain how states used grandfather clauses to enforce discrimination.
1. the grandfather clauses said that anybody who had the right to vote between 1866 and 1867 could vote without being taxed but slaves weren't allowed the right to vote until 1870.
10. Explain how states used poll taxes to enforce discrimination.
1. Most freed blacks couldn't afford the poll tax that was around $200 so this discriminated against them.
11. Explain how states used literacy tests to enforce discrimination.
1. Most of the questions on the literacy tests were questions too hard even for a white person to answer. Somebody could say that the answers are wrong and not let you vote if you're black and somebody could say the white person was right and could vote even if the answers were actually wrong.
12. What does the 24th Amendment say?
1. This amendment ended all of the poll taxes.