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Why did some Americans feel that Supreme Court decisions during the 1960s considered only the rights of the poor?
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Because the court was only targeting those minorities.
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During the 1870 Supreme Court decisions?
guaranteed African Americans protection from actions by other citizens
How did supreme court rulings during reconstruction help weaken African Americans' civil rights?
As early as 1868 Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, a leading Radical during the reconstruction, made many decisions with the Supreme Court that weakened African Americans' civil rights. He continued to segregate them and deny them rights as voters.
What were supreme court decisions during the 1870s?
In the 1870â??s, the United State Supreme Court reached decisions that changed the way citizens were treated as well as the way the government was run. Following the end of the Civil War, newly freed slaves and other African-Americans were granted the same rights as all Americans and guaranteed protection under the law. States that had previously enjoyed more autonomy, were denied the power to define the rights of their citizens and new restrictions to the 14th amendment were applied.
What were most white Americans during the civil war considered?
Humans.
Explain the decisions facing African Americans and native Americans during revolution?
They had to decide which army to fight for, and there were various reasons to fight for each side. During the American Revolutionary War, African Americans served both the Continental Army (5,000 men) and the British Army (20000 men).
Why were Japanese Americans moved to internments camps during World War 2?
They were considered a threat by association.
Why is there no jury or witness during a hearing at the Supreme Court?
There are no witnesses or juries at either the Supreme Court OR the Courts Of Appeal. They hear only cases which have already been tried at the lower level of the judicial system and their rulings affect the decisions rendered at that level of the system.
Why was the placement of Japanese Americans considered constitutional during ww2?
The Americans didn't trust the Japanese's, they thought they where spies. So they made most of the Japanese Americans to isolated camps till a year after the war was over.
Who was korematsuv US?
It is Korematsu v US and was a landmark Supreme Court decision allowing the USA government to place Japanese Americans in internment camps during WWII.
What were two of the most controversial domestic issues facing Americans during the early part of the 1970s?
{The Supreme Court ruling of roe. V. Wade} {The relaxation of immigration laws}
What was the effect of the civil rights decisions of the supreme court under chief justice earl warren?
Chief justice Earl Warren had seen a number of cases during his time in the supreme court. His most notable though was his ruling on civil rights cases, which ended segregation in the school systems.
Explain the supreme court case koematsu v U.S?
Korematsu v. United States was a landmark Supreme Court case in 1944 that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Court ruled that the need to protect against espionage outweighed the individual rights of Japanese Americans, even though the decision has been widely criticized as a violation of civil liberties and racial discrimination. It was later officially overturned in 2018 by the Supreme Court in the case of Trump v. Hawaii.
