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Ch 5 Flashcards

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1
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amendment that has to do with black male suffrage

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15th amendment

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2
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this ends the black codes

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Voting rights act of 1965

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Jim Crow laws have to do with what?

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segregation

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what is the first civil rights case the court ever hears?

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Scott vs Sanford

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difference between dejure and de facto

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dejure - by law
de facto - by fact

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case that has to do with doctrine of “separate but equal”

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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group that helped black Americans challenge state laws denying them access to white only universities

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NAACP

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case where the supreme court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine and ordered the desegregation of the nations public schools (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson)

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Brown v. Board of Education

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used by the supreme court to put the burden on the state government to establish the constitutionality of its actions.

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strict scrutiny

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what happened to segregation created by law (de jure)

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it was struck down

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the most comprehensive legislation to date designed to eliminate racial discrimination

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Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA of 1964)

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a full decade after Brown vs Ferguson, what percentage of African American children in the south attended integrated schools

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less than 1%

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the belief that women should be spared from life’s cruelties. This served as the basis for many laws that discriminated against women

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Protectionism

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what year did the supreme court upheld Oregon work laws requiring women to work fewer hours (Muller vs Oregon)

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1908

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which amendment led to women’s suffrage?

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19th amendment

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case where court found that violations of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act could be remedied with monetary damages. Title IX forbade gender discrimination in education.

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Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools

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case where the United States brought suit against Virginia and VMI alleging that the school’s male-only admissions policy was unconstitutional insofar as it violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause

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United States v. Virgina

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a US supreme court case that recognized sexual harassment as a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (hostile environment)

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Meritor Savings Bank vs. Vinson

19
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it was the first ruling in the United States in favor of desegregation

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Mendez v. Westminster

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case that made it illegal for school boards to designate specific buildings for Mexican-American students on school grounds

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Delgado v. Del Rio ISD

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case where the US Supreme Court recognized Mexican Americans as a class whose rights Anglos had violated through Jim Crow practices

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Hernandez v. State of Texas

22
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act that suspended immigration of Chinese workers

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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

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case where the Supreme Court ruled that anyone born in the United States could not be denied citizenship (1898)

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US vs. Wong Kim Ark

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Act that rescinded the 1790 law that prohibited Asians from becoming citizens

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McCarren - Walter Act (1952)

25
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native Americans were not granted citizenship until what year

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1924

26
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Native Americans get the right to vote in what year

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1940

27
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Act that gives individuals with disabilities civil rights protections similar to those given to individuals on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion

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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

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legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) on June 26, 2015, that state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment

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Obergfell v. Hodges

29
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the case that upheld busing

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Swann vs Char Merklenburg ISD

30
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case that says its ok to discriminate against women (protectionism) its for their own good

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Bradwell vs Illinois

31
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what state was the first to give women the right to vote

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Wyoming

32
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women today earn less money then their male counterparts

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glass ceiling

33
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a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activities that receive federal funding

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Title IX

34
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the case that says that you cannot be fired being a homosexual

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Bostock vs Clayton County

35
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case that says you cannot be fired being a transgender

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RG and GR Harris Funeral Homes vs EEOC and Aimee Stevens

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