Chapter 5- AP Government Flashcards
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| 11022512221 | Civil Rights | Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals | 0 | |
| 11022512222 | Fourteenth Amendment | made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country | 1 | |
| 11022512223 | Equal Protection of the Laws | part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent "protection" to all people. | 2 | |
| 11022512224 | Scott v. Stanford | 1857: supreme court case in which an ex-slave sued for his freedom in Missouri and lost; judges ignored the "once free, always free" law | 3 | |
| 11022512225 | Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery | 4 | |
| 11022512226 | Plessy v. Ferguson | sumpreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal | 5 | |
| 11022512227 | Brown v. Board | School segregation unconstitutional; segregation psychologically damaging to blacks; overturned separate but equal; use of 14th Amendment | 6 | |
| 11022512228 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination | 7 | |
| 11022512229 | Suffrage | the right to vote | 8 | |
| 11022512230 | Fifteenth Amendment | Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote | 9 | |
| 11022512231 | Poll Taxes | required citizens of a state to pay a special tax in order to vote | 10 | |
| 11022512232 | White Primary | the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation. | 11 | |
| 11022512233 | Twenty-fourth Amendment | Prohibits poll tax in federal elections | 12 | |
| 11022512234 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage | 13 | |
| 11022512235 | Hernandez v. Texas | Supreme Court decision that ended exclusion of Mexican Americans from juries in Texas. 1954 | 14 | |
| 11022512236 | Korematsu v. United States | 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. | 15 | |
| 11022512237 | Nineteenth Amendment | granted women the right to vote in 1920 | 16 | |
| 11022512238 | Equal Rights Amendment | constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender | 17 | |
| 11022512239 | Reed v. Reed | the landmark case in 1971 in which the supreme court for the first time upheld a claim of gender discrimination. ,m | 18 | |
| 11022512240 | Craig v. Boren | In this 1976 ruling, the Supreme Court established the "medium scrutiny" standard for determining gender discrimination. | 19 | |
| 11022512241 | American with Disabilities Act of 1990 | 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 | 20 | |
| 11022512242 | Regent of the University of California v. Bakke | Court ruling that colleges and universities could legitimately consider race as a factor in the admissions process. | 21 | |
| 11022512243 | Affirmative action | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities | 22 |