Chapter 6 vocabulary for AP Government Wilson textbook
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| 618898648 | suspect classification | Legal distinction the Supreme Court scrutinizes especially closely | |
| 618898649 | Reconstruction | Post civil war era southern laws | |
| 618936369 | Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court decision upholding state enforced racial segregation | |
| 618936370 | separate but equal doctrine | Standard under which the court once held segregation | |
| 618936371 | Jim Crow | The term for laws forcing second class status on blacks | |
| 618936372 | NAACP | A black interest group active primarily in the courts | |
| 618936373 | Brown vs BOE | A Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools inherently unequal | |
| 618936374 | de jure segregation | Segregation created by law | |
| 618936375 | de facto segregation | Segregation that exists but that was not created by law | |
| 618936376 | freedom of choice | A school integration plan mandating no particular racial balance | |
| 618936377 | Martin Luther King Jr | An early nonviolent leader in black civil rights | |
| 618936378 | equality of opportunity | Offering the races and equal chance at desired things | |
| 618936379 | equality of results | Distributing desired things equally to the races | |
| 618936380 | reasonableness | The standard by which the Court judges gender based classifications | |
| 618936381 | Rostker v Goldberg | A ruling that held that Congress may draft men but not women | |
| 618936382 | Roe v Wade | A ruling that declared all state laws prohibiting abortion unconstitutional | |
| 618936383 | Hyde Amendment | Legislation that barred the use of federal funds for nearly any abortion | |
| 618936384 | NOW | A leading feminist organization | |
| 618936385 | nonviolent civil disobedience | A philosophy of peaceful violation of laws considered unjust and accepting punishment for the violation | |
| 618936386 | strict scrutiny | The standard by which the Supreme Court judges classifications based on race: they must have a compelling public purpose | |
| 618936387 | reverse discrimination | The use of race or sex to give preferential treatment to blacks or women | |
| 618936388 | compensating action | Helping disadvantaged people catch up, usually by giving them extra education, training, or services | |
| 618936389 | preferential treatment | Giving minorities preference in hiring, promotions, college admissions, and contracts | |
| 618936390 | affirmative action | designing remedies for overcoming racism and sexism by taking race and sex into account | |
| 619148477 | Bakke | A Supreme Court ruling stating that college may not use an explicit numerical quota in admitting minorities but could "take race into account" | |
| 619148478 | aliens | Any persons who are not U.S. citizens | |
| 619148479 | civil rights | The rights of citizens to vote, receive equal treatment before the law, and share benefits of public facilities |
