Tuesday, July 28, 2026 · america_250
America 250 · 14th Amendment — July 28
5 questions · 1000 points possible. Below are the prompts, hints, and target locations from this pack.
On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified — birthright citizenship, equal protection, due process. Today's pack walks five Supreme Court cases that turned on those four lines.
- 01
Drop a pin on the Topeka, KS school district whose name became the 1954 Supreme Court case ending school segregation.
● South Kansas Avenue — Topeka, Kansas, United States
- Target
- 39.0473°, -95.6752°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 02
Drop a pin on the hospital where 'Jane Roe' — Norma McCorvey — worked when she became the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1973).
● Marilla Street — Dallas, Texas, United States
- Target
- 32.7767°, -96.7970°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 03
Drop a pin on the Cleveland, OH home of Dollree Mapp — whose 1957 illegal-search case set the rule that excludes illegally obtained evidence (1961's Mapp v. Ohio).
● West Roadway — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Target
- 41.4993°, -81.6944°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 04
Drop a pin on the desert town where Ernesto Miranda was arrested in 1963 — his case requiring the 'Miranda warning' police now read at every arrest.
● West Washington Street — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Target
- 33.4484°, -112.0740°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 05
Drop a pin on the town that lent its name to the 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S. — Obergefell v. Hodges.
● Walnut Street — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Target
- 39.1031°, -84.5120°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts