Ch 6

Question 1

Separate but equal doctrine

Answer 1

The doctrine established in plessy v Ferguson that African Americans could constitutionally be kept separate but equal in facilities

Question 2

Suspect classification

Answer 2

Classification of people based on their race or ethnicity laws so classifying people are subject to strict scrutiny

Question 3

De jure segregation

Answer 3

Racial segregation that is required by law

Question 4

De facto segregation

Answer 4

Racial segregation that occurs in schools not as a result of law but as a result of patterns of residential settlement

Question 5

Civil disobedience

Answer 5

Opposing a law one considers unjust by peacefully disobeying it and accepting the resultant punishment

Question 6

Police powers

Answer 6

State power to enact laws promoting health safety and morals

Question 7

Equality of Results

Answer 7

Making certain that people achieve the same result

Question 8

Affirmative action

Answer 8

Laws or administrative regulations that require a business firm government agency labor union school college or other organization to take positive steps to increase the number of African Americans other minorities or women in its membership

Question 9

Reverse discrimination

Answer 9

Using race or sex to give preferential treatment to some people

Question 10

Equality of opportunity

Answer 10

Giving people an equal chance to succeed

Question 11

Brown v board of education

Answer 11

Said separate public schools at inherently unequal this starting racial desegregation

Question 12

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 12

Upheld separate but equal facilities for white and black peoples on railroad cars

Question 13

Scott v Sanford

Answer 13

Congress had no authority to ban slavery in a territory. A slave was considered a piece of property

Question 14

Reed v reed

Answer 14

Gender discrimination violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution

Question 15

Griswold v Connecticut

Answer 15

Found a right to privacy in the constitution that would ban any law against selling contraceptives

Question 16

Roe v wade

Answer 16

State laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional

Question 17

Regents of the university of California v baake

Answer 17

Was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action allowing race to be one of the several factors in college admission policy

Question 18

US v Windsor

Answer 18

Is a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court held that restricting us federal interpretation of marriage and spouse to apply only to heterosexual Union

Question 19

Strict scrutiny

Answer 19

The most stringent standard of judicial review used by United States courts. It is the hierarchy of standards that courts use to weigh the governments interest against a constitutional right or principle

Question 20

Civil rights

Answer 20

The rights of people to be treated without unreasonable or unconstitutional differences