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First Amendment

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  • United States v. Cruikshank

    Significant Case

    The Supreme Court decision that limited the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and weakened enforcement of federal Reconstruction policies.

  • Rights, Commerce, and Reform

    Era

    The end of Reconstruction and the start of Industrialization led to a 50-year era where the Supreme Court addressed constitutional questions about rights, commerce, and reform.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Life Story

    The Boston native, Civil War soldier, and Associate Justice whose legal theories revolutionized modern understanding of the law.

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  • Advocate

  • Circuit

  • Seven Black men, all dressed in suits, wait in line to board the front of a bus after the decision in Browder v. Gayle.

    Fourteenth Amendment

  • Landmark Case

  • Native Americans

  • Selective Incorporation

  • Supreme Court

    Voting

  • Women