AP Flashcards

6069566408	Civil rights	Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals	0
6069576951	Equal protection of the laws	part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent "protection" to all people.	1
6069619995	13 Amendment	abolished slavery	2
6069626809	Plessy v. Ferguson	sumpreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal	3
6069637132	Brown v. Bord	the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination	4
6069644763	Civil right acts of 1964	the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination	5
6069654968	Suffrage	the right to vote	6
6069692445	Poll taxes	required citizens of a state to pay a special tax in order to vote	7
6069695875	White primary	the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation.	8
6069708098	24 amendment	Prohibits poll tax in federal elections	9
6069721972	Voting right act of 1965	a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage	10
6069859248	19 amendment	granted women the right to vote in 1920	11
6069859387	Equal right amendment	constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender	12
6069935894	Reed v. Reed	the landmark case in 1971 in which the supreme court for the first time upheld a claim of gender discrimination. ,m	13
6069953830	Americans with Disabilities	a law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accomodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment	14
6069967141	Regret of the University	Court ruling that colleges and universities could legitimately consider race as a factor in the admissions process	15
6070017129	Affirmative action	programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities	16