11.2

Question 0

Suspect Classification

Answer 0

A classification or distinction in a law that is based on race or national origin.

Question 1

Equal Protection Clause

Answer 1

The part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that requires states to apply the law that same way for one person that they would for another person in the same circumstances.

Question 2

Segregation

Answer 2

The separation of racial groups.

Question 3

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 3

Segregation laws aimed mainly at African Americans that were passed in the late 1800: and early 1900s; named after a popular racist song.

Question 4

Separate-but-equal Doctrine

Answer 4

The policy that laws requiring separate facilities for racial groups were legal so long as the facilities were “equal”

Question 5

Sufferage

Answer 5

The right to vote.

Question 6

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 6

The first women’s right convention held in the United States.

Question 7

De Jure Segregation

Answer 7

Separation of races by law.

Question 8

Desegregation

Answer 8

The process of ending the formal separation of groups based on race.

Question 9

De Facto Segregation

Answer 9

Segregation in fact; deprecation if races that occurs without laws requiring segregation.