Courtrooms and Civic Action: Supreme Court Sorting Game

Click the top buttons to watch a short video about each Supreme Court case. Then add the correct tiles to each space under each court case. Press the button to check your work. The game has two rounds with 5 court cases total

Courtrooms and Civic Action: Supreme Court Sorting Game

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Issue

Ruling

Issue

Ruling

Issue

Ruling

Lasting Impact

Constitutional Principle

Constitutional Principle

Lasting Impact

Constitutional Principle

Lasting Impact

Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement

Key People

Key People

Key People

Court upheld students’ right to free speech in schools, as long as it doesn’t disrupt learning.

Court upheld “separate but equal” segregation laws

Expanded free speech protections and youth participation in democracy

John Tinker

14th Amendment

Homer Plessy

African American students were denied entry to white public schools due to segregation laws.

Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson; sparked nationwide desegregation

Legalized racial segregation for over half a century until being overturned

Court ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional.

14 Amendment

Nonviolent Protesting: Inspired bus boycotts, marches, and sit-ins

Litigation: Early example of using the courts to challenge racial inequality.

Lobbying & Awareness: Encouraged youth activism and civic engagement movements.

A man of mixed race challenged Louisiana’s segregation laws after being arrested for sitting in a “whites only” railcar.

Students were suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.

Thurgood Marshall

1st Amendment

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Click the top buttons to watch a short video about each Supreme Court Case. Then add the correct tiles to each space under each court case. Press the button to check your work

Courtrooms and Civic Action: Supreme Court Sorting Game

Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

Hernandez v. Texas (1954)

Ruling

Issue

Ruling

Issue

Constitutional Principle

Lasting Impact

Constitutional Principle

Lasting Impact

Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement

Key People

Key People

Expanded protection for religious liberty and parental rights in education.

Court ruled Mexican Americans and other ethnic groups are protected under the 14th Amendment.

1st Amendment

A Mexican American man was convicted by an all-white jury and denied equal protection.

Litigation: LULAC and GI Forum supported the case.

Amish community leaders

Gus García and Carlos Cadena

Amendments: Reinforced the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.

Extended civil rights protections to all racial and ethnic groups.

14th Amendment

Amish parents refused to send their children to public high school, citing religious beliefs.

Court ruled compulsory education laws violated Amish religious freedom.

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Court ruled Mexican Americans and other ethnic groups are protected under the 14th Amendment.

Amish parents refused to send their children to public high school, citing religious beliefs.

A Mexican American man was convicted by an all-white jury and denied equal protection.

Court ruled compulsory education laws violated Amish religious freedom.

Expanded protection for religious liberty and parental rights in education.

1st Amendment

14th Amendment

Extended civil rights protections to all racial and ethnic groups.

Amish community leaders

Gus García and Carlos Cadena

Litigation: LULAC and GI Forum supported the case.

Amendments: Reinforced the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.

What's next?

I don't feel confident. I'm going to try it again.

I'm ready for the next callenge! Go to the next Sorting Game!

Court upheld “separate but equal” segregation laws

A man of mixed race challenged Louisiana’s segregation laws after being arrested for sitting in a “whites only” railcar.

Students were suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.

Court upheld students’ right to free speech in schools, as long as it doesn’t disrupt learning.

Court ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional.

African American students were denied entry to white public schools due to segregation laws.

14 Amendment

Legalized racial segregation for over half a century until being overturned

Expanded free speech protections and youth participation in democracy

Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson; sparked nationwide desegregation

1st Amendment

14th Amendment

Homer Plessy

Litigation: Early example of using the courts to challenge racial inequality.

John Tinker

Nonviolent Protesting: Inspired bus boycotts, marches, and sit-ins

Thurgood Marshall

Lobbying & Awareness: Encouraged youth activism and civic engagement movements.