Equal protection under the law due process and citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
when individuals are treated unfairly due to race, gender, ethnic group, age, physical disability, and religion
What is discrimination
100
Jim crow laws
What is the name of the laws that enforced segregation in schools, public transportation, and hotels?
100
Barack Obama
Who is the first african american president?
100
sit ins
What was a common technique for protest in restaurants during civil rights movements
200
Rights that go to the heart of the American system or are indispensable in a just system
What is fundamental rights?
200
a court case ruled that to prove a state guilty of discrimination it had to prove that the intent to discriminate was the motivation of a states action?
What is Washington v. Davis
200
segregation
What is the separation of people from a larger group?
200
massachusetts
What is the first state to allow gay marriage
200
the civil rights movement
What is the movement that had gained many rights for minorities after the brown decision?
300
When a classification is made on the basis of race or national origin
What is a suspect classification?
300
the fourteenth amendment guarantees equal laws, not equal results
What is stated at the end of the Washington vs Davis court case?
300
Racial Discrimination
What is treatment of a race differently because of a race called?
300
1993
What year was the military don't ask don't tell policy placed?
300
martin luther king
Who was the baptist minister during the civil rights movement who played a huge role?
400
Provides that the court will uphold a state law when the state can show a good reason to justify the classification
What is a rational basis test?
400
Illinois city
What is the city in which a zoning ordinance put to court for discrimination against minorities since low cost housing projects were banned?
400
Plessy v. Fergusn case
What is the case in which the jim crow laws were justified by the supreme court since facilities were equal but separate?
400
2009
When was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act passed?
400
1965
What is the year the voting rights act were passed
500
the situation when a citizen feels a classification is unreasonable
What is the reason for using the equal protection clause?
500
the 14th amendment
What is the amendment used to prove if laws are unconstitutional in cases of discrimination
500
Brown v. Board of education of Topeka
What is the case in which linda carol brown was able to go to an all white school when previously she was denied admission due to the color of her skin?
500
an act that can allow for someone to sue based on unequal pay if it was motivated by discrimination
What is the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act,
500
president Lyndon B. Johnson
Who had had stated this quote "passage of this bill and of the 1965 civil rights law...profoundly altered the politics of civil rights and the political position of southern blacks'"