Week 7 -1
12 People that finds someone innocent or guilty
Jury
A moral obligation that an individual is expected to perform. (obeying laws, paying taxes)
civic duty
The total value of a person's or household's financial assets that can be passed down through generations.
Wealth
Another word for voting
Suffrage
The year the 19th amendment was passed
1920
Attending meetings, voting and volunteering is all part of this.
Civic Participation
Mandatory financial charges imposed by the government
Taxes
The dramatic increase in prison and jail population that affected the Black and Latino population.
Mass Incarceration
A law that gave women the right to play sports and help them receive and education.
Title IX
What does EEOC stand for
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Aperson summoned and sworn to decide facts and render a verdict
Juror
This has been inactive since 1973
Military draft
A loan offered to borrowers with lower credit scores.
Subprime loan
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
19th
What percentage of the prison system is black?
67%
Legal or moral entitlements hold that protects their interests and freedoms
Rights
Male citizen between 18-25 must sign up for this.
Selective services
The institutional policies, practices and cultural norms that produced and reproduced unequal outcomes for racial groups.
Systemic racism
This is the year The Seneca Falls Convention was held.
1848
This law was passed in 1968 to stop discrimination on buying and rent homes.
Federal or Fair Housing Act
A group of people connected by locations, interests or values, who interact and depend on one another.
community
The legal age to vote
18
This drawing of red, outlining communities that should not receive loans in banks
Redlining
The 1973 case that gave women the right to abortions and was recently overturned.
Roe V. Wade
What percentage of The U.S. population is black?
37%