Chapter 6

Question 1

affirmative action

Answer 1

Programs designed to increase minority participation in some institutions (businesses, schools, labor unions, or government agencies) by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members.

Question 2

civil disobedience

Answer 2

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

Question 3

civil rights

Answer 3

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

Question 4

de facto segregation

Answer 4

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

Question 5

de jure segregation

Answer 5

Racial segregation that is required by law.

Question 6

equality of opportunity

Answer 6

Giving people an equal chance to succeed.

Question 7

equality of result

Answer 7

Making certain that people achieve the same result.

Question 8

police powers

Answer 8

State power to effect laws promoting health, safety, and morals.

Question 9

reverse discrimination

Answer 9

Using race or sex to give preferential treatment to some people.

Question 10

separate-but-equal doctrine

Answer 10

The doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate but equal facilities.