Vocab
Voting rights
Discrimination
Affirmative action
Court Cases
100
The doctrine that public accommodations could be segregated by race but still be equal.
What is the separate but equal rule?
100
The year women were able to vote, thanks to the 19th amendment.
What is 1920?
100
These people were the first to receive suffrage in the United States.
What is white land owners?
100
California's proposition 209 that passed in 1996 banned this practice believing it favored one race over another.
What is affirmative action?
100
In this case a former slave sued for his lack of freedom in a free state.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
200
A policy or program designed to redress historic injustices committed against specific groups by making special efforts to provide members of these groups with access to educational and employment opportunities.
What is affirmative action?
200
This amendment gave blacks the right to vote during the decade of Reconstruction.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
This act gave blacks protection from discrimination on public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
200
Supreme Court case where a white student applied to the University of California Medical School and was denied admittance to meet a minority quota, despite his better scores. he won this case and was admitted.
What is Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
200
This court case established the "separate but equal" rule.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The provision of the 14th amendment guaranteeing citizens the equal protection of the laws.
What is the equal protection clause?
300
The Supreme Court case in which a section of the Voting Rights Act, preclearance, was deemed unconstitutional.
What is Shelby County v. Holder?
300
This part of the Government has often increased Civil Rights tow omen and minorities the most.
What is the Courts?
300
the Supreme Court decision that stated race-based policies such as preferences given by the government to minority contractors must survive strict scrutiny, forcing the government to prove that such affirmative action programs serve a compelling government interest.
What is Adarand Constructors v. Pena?
300
This court case got rid of the "separate but equal" law.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
Places the burden of proof partially on the government and partially on the challengers to show that the law in question is constitutional. The test used by the Supreme Court in gender discrimination cases.
What is intermediate scrutiny?
400
This Supreme Court case ruled that states could not draw the boundaries of election districts so as to discriminate based on race.
What is Gomillion v. Lightfoot?
400
This state's original constitution in 1777 allowed all men to vote.
What is New York?
400
The Supreme Court decision that ruled against a point based ranking system used by the University of Michigan that automatically gave 20 points to minority applicants.
What is Gratz v. Bollinger?
400
In this case the Court signaled to lower courts to "disengage from desegregation efforts."
What is Missouri v. Jenkins?
500
Racial segregation that is a direct result of law or official policy.
What is de jure segregation?
500
The group formed in New York in 1869 that began the effort to amend the constitution to allow women to vote.
What is the National Women's Suffrage Association?
500
This state had a policy to pay for qualified blacks schooling, granted that they go to school in a different state.
What is Missouri?
500
The Supreme Court case where a white woman sued the University of Michigan Law School because she believed that minority applicants had been looked upon more favorably then white applicants who had equal or superior scores. ruled that this was okay because diversity was in the states interest.
What is Grutter v. Bollinger?
500
This court case made preclearance a necessity for some states.
What is Shelby County v. Holder?
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