AP Government Chap 5 vocab and terms.txt

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• description "Vocab and Terms for Chapter 5 "
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• Inherently Suspect
• Invalid unless "compelling public interest"

• 1 slavery- civil war
• 2 reconstruction- 1954
• 1954 to present day

Dred scot case (scott vs sanford), 3/5 comprimise

Segregation by law (jim crow laws)

By fact: by neiborhoods, states, membership

Type of segregation: rational relationship to lefit go. Purpose. Examples: amusment park rides, voting age, drinking age. Abortion standards.

Case by case, moderatly difficult to meet. Open to interpretation usually by gender (employmenr, firefighters, Draft

• Equality by 14th ammendment (equal process under law)
• Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals

Ended segragated schools reversed plessy vs furfusen "seperat eis inheretly unequal"

1857. Supreme Court ruled that a slave who had excaped to a free state enjoyed no rihgts as a citizen and the Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories.

Ratified avter Civil War, forbade slavery and involentary servitude.

this law made racial and sexual discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination

1896. SC provided constitution justification for segregation by ruling that a Louisiana law requiring "equal but separate accommodations for the awhile and colored races" was constitutional

1866 You can not discriminate at state polls.

Abolished poll tax

1954. SC said separate is inherently unequal. A violation of the 14th ammendment's guarantee of equal protection.

• 1) African americans
• 2) Latin Americans
• 3)Asian Americans - fastest growing

• Japanese internment. Rounded up Asian Americans into "safe hoses" striped bill of
• Rights. Led to Korematsu v US

1944. SC decision that upheld the internment of more than 100,000 American Japenese descent in encampments duringe WWII as constitutional.

The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the fifteenth amendment and to people over 18 by the 26th ammendment

Gives women the right to vote.

Introduced in 1923 passed congress but failed to get 3/4 legislature .

1971. Landmark case. Supreme court upheld claim of gender discrimination. Set standards for custody: goes to most qualified.

1976. Made girls drinking age higher to equal guys. CraiG vBoren. (Girls over Boys) set up "medium scrutiny".

1972. You can sue for discrimination.

From education act of 1792. Any facility for boys must have an equivalent for girls. Used with sports.

15% of military. They can not be in combat positions.

1991 Employers are responsible for ending sexual harassment. You can sue if they fail to do so.

• Age discrimination: older have to meet all other requirements "intermediate scrutiny" younger: emancipation (be financially independent.
• Disabled: reasonable accommodations
• Sexual orientation: adoption, insurance (by state, case by case)

The issue raised when women who hold traditionally female jobs are paid less than men for working at jobs requiring

The constitution amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans.

Used to discourage African American voting. Deemed unconstitutional in 1944

• Law to help African American suffrage. Removed many barriers to voting such as literacy tests. Registered many, and allowed many more African Americans to become
• Elected officials.

Requires employers to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination in employment.

A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group.

1978. Rules that a state university could not admit less qualified students solely because of their race.

1995. Rules that holding federal programs that classify people by race in any case to be unconstitutional.

Small taxes levied on the right to vote. Used to exclude blacks from voting. Voided by 26th amendment.

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge privileges or take away life property etc w/ out due process of the law.

1876. Hays promised to end reconstruction in return

Drawing district boundaries to the advantage of a specific groups.( ie whites)

Banned affirmative action

Allowed busing as a means to valence racial percentages in schools

Grandfather clause is unconstitutional

Outlawed white primaries