Unit 5 Flashcards
Civil rights
Policy designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals
Fourteenth amendment
No state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of laws.
No state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of laws.
Fourteenth amendment
Equal protection clause
Part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that laws myst provide equivalent “protection” to all people
Part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that laws myst provide equivalent “protection” to all people
Equal protection clause
Standards of review
Used to determine if a law or regulation is permissive or violated the equal protection clause
Used to determine if a law or regulation is permissive or violated the equal protection clause
Standards of review
Standard of review for race & ethnicity
Strict scrutiny/inherently suspect
Standard of review for gender
Intermediate scrutiny
Standard of review for other (age, wealth, etc.)
Reasonableness
What is the basis of classification for strict scrutiny
Race & ethnicity
What is the basis of classification for intermediate scrutiny
Gender
What is the basis of classification for reasonableness
Age, wealth, etc.
Thirteenth amendment
Forbade slavery & involuntary servitude
Amendment that forbade slavery & involuntary servitude
Thirteenth amendment
Brown v. Board of education
School segregation is unconstitutional because it violates the fourteenth amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. End of legal segregation.
Ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional because it violates the fourteenth amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. End of legal segregation.
Brown v. Board of education
Civil rights act of 1964
Law making racial discrimination on public accommodation illegal. It forbade many forms of job discrimination. It also strengthened voting rights.
Law making racial discrimination on public accommodation illegal. It forbade many forms of job discrimination. It also strengthened voting rights.
Civil rights act of 1964
Suffrage extended to African Americans by which amendment
15th
Suffrage extended to women by which amendment
19th
Fifteenth amendment
Extended suffrage to African Americans
Extended suffrage to African Americans
Fifteenth amendment
Poll taxes
Smaller taxes levied on the right to vote. Poll taxes were used mostly by southern states to exclude African Americans from voting
White primary
Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded. Deprived African Americans from a voice in the real contest. Was soon ruled to be unconstitutional.
Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded. Deprived African Americans from a voice in the real contest. Was soon ruled to be unconstitutional.
White primary
Twenty-fourth amendment
Declared poll taxes void from elections
Declared poll taxes void from elections
Twenty-fourth amendment
Voting rights act of 1965
Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, many African Americans registered to vote, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically
Law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, many African Americans registered to vote, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically
Voting rights act or 1965
Nineteenth amendment
Guarantees women the right to vote
Guarantees women the right to vote
Nineteenth amendment
Equal rights amendment (ERA)
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex
Equal rights amendment (ERA)
Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (ADA)
Required employees and public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations” for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against them in employment
Required employees and public facilities to make “reasonable accommodations” for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against them in employment
Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (ADA)
Affirmative action
A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group
A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group
Affirmative action
