Chapter 5

Question 0

Part of 14th amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide “equivalent” protection to all people

Answer 0

Equal protection of the law

Question 1

Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals

Answer 1

Civil rights

Question 2

Slaves were not citizens
Supreme Court decision ruling that a slave that had escaped to a free state had no rights as a citizen and that congress has no authority to ban slavery in the territories

Answer 2

Scott v sandford

Question 3

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

Justification for segregation

Answer 3

Plessy v ferguson

Question 4

Separate is inherently unequal
Supreme Court ruling that segregated schools was unconstitutional and violated 14th amendment rights - ended segregation in US

Answer 4

Brown vs board of education

Question 5

By law segregation

Answer 5

De Jure

Question 6

By facts segregation

Answer 6

De facto

Question 7

Law making segregation in hotels, motels and restaurants illegal and forbidding many forms of job discrimination

Answer 7

Civil rights act of 1964

Question 8

Right to vote

Answer 8

Suffrage

Question 9

Charging people to vote- illegal

Answer 9

Poll taxes

Question 10

Elections where African Americans were excluded and left no voice for African Americans in government

Answer 10

White primary

Question 11

Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage

Answer 11

Voting Rights act of 1965

Question 12

Supreme Court decision that extended protection against discrimination of Hispanics

Answer 12

Hernandez vs Texas

Question 13

Discrimination of Japanese after Pearl Harbor
Supreme Court decision that upheld as constitutional the internment of 100,000 Americans of Japanese decent in encampments during WWll

Answer 13

Korematsu vs US

Question 14

Failed proposed amendment for equal rights for all sexes

Answer 14

Equal rights amendment

Question 15

Gender bias (divorce example)
Upheld claim of gender discrimination

Answer 15

Reed vs reed

Question 16

Supreme Court established intermediate scrutiny standard for determining gender discrimination

Answer 16

Craig vs boren

Question 17

Requires employees and public facilities to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination of these people in employment

Answer 17

Americans with disabilities act of 1990

Question 18

Setting aside spots for women/minorities for opportunities or special attention for disadvantaged groups

Answer 18

Affirmative action

Question 19

Supreme Court Decision that let universities to weigh race or ethnic background as one element in admissions but could not set aside places for members of particular racial groups

Answer 19

Regents of the university of Cali vs. Bakke

Question 20

Reverse racism/sexism
Supreme Court Decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race even to expand opportunities is unconstitutional

Answer 20

Adarand constructors vs Pena

Question 21

Segregation or separation of racial groups

Answer 21

Jim Crow laws

Question 22

What caused jim crow laws to be developed

Answer 22

Federal groups were out after reconstruction ended

Question 23

Inherently suspect

Answer 23

Court presumptions about classifications based on race

Question 24

Race and ethnicity - inherently suspect Gender- intermediate scrutiny Age, wealth etc. -reasonableness

Answer 24

Court definitions of levels of scrutiny

Question 25

Accomplishments of the civil rights act of 1964

Answer 25

Reinforced 14th amendment

Question 26

Accomplishments of the voting act of 1965

Answer 26

ReEnforced 15th amendment

Question 27

Equal opportunities for women in education, government and sports

Answer 27

Title IX of educational amendment of 1972

Question 28

Idea that public facilities need to provide handicap assessable environment

Answer 28

Americans with disabilities act

Question 29

Rosa parks

Answer 29

Started civil rights movement by not sitting at the back of the bus

Question 30

Hostile working environment

Answer 30

Sexual harassment definition

Question 31

Right to vote

Answer 31

Suffrage

Question 32

Vote like husbands/men | 19th amendment

Answer 32

Women voting

Question 33

Yes if inability to do job based on age reasonableness

Answer 33

Constitutionality of mandatory retirement

Question 34

Charging people to vote

Answer 34

Poll tax

Question 35

Persons heritage affecting rights

Answer 35

Grandfather clause

Question 36

Cannot give African Americans choice by eliminating their say in government

Answer 36

White primaries

Question 37

Creating artificial voting districts

Answer 37

Gerrymandering

Question 38

Abolished slavery in United States

Answer 38

13th amendment

Question 39

Ensures all citizens of all states had not only rights on the federal level, but on the state level too...removed 3/5 counting of slaves in the census and ensured the US would not pay the debts of rebellious states

Answer 39

14th amendment

Question 40

Ensures that race cannot be used as criteria for voting

Answer 40

15th amendment

Question 41

Ensures gender cannot be used as criteria for voting -women can vote

Answer 41

19th amendment

Question 42

Ensured no tax could be charged to vote for any federal office

Answer 42

24th amendment