exam 2 vocab pt 2 Flashcards
spoken defamation of character
slander
prevents citizens from being imprisoned indefinitely without a hearing and a trial
habeas corpus
the government cannot issue this, it would allow it to declare certain acts illegal and punishable without a trial
bills of attainder
the government cannot pass this retroactively banning actions that were legal at the time they were committed
ex post facto laws
declared “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the US, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free” did not end slaver but it did change the basic character of the Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the Civil War
Juneteenth
laws passed after the Civil War amendments to discriminate against African Americans and to preserve the existing racial order in the south
jim crow laws
outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women
the civil rights act of 1964
outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the US
the voting rights act of 1965
the idea that the only “true” woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family
the cult of true womanhood
“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
declaration of sentiments
written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman in 1921, equal rights for women
equal rights amendment
the invisible but impenetrable barrier that most women face when trying to ascend the corporate or political ladder
glass ceiling
the tendency for passing thoughts to confirm existing stereotypes in our minds, even if we quickly catch them
implicit bias
a system of government in which power is concentrated at the subnational level
confederal system
