Minorities
Interest Groups
Elections
Discrimination
Citizenship
The Courts
100
This is the largest minority group in the United States.
What are Hispanic Americans?
100
This is group of people with similar interests and social standing.
What is a peer group?
100
Voters in early American elections registered their choices using this method, which became unworkable as the voting population grew rapidly.
What is voting by voice?
100
This provision of the 14th Amendment says that the Federal Government may not draw unreasonable distinctions between any classes of people.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
100
This term is used to describe the Constitutional provision that grants citizenship (virtually) to all persons born within the borders of the U.S.
What is birthright citizenship?
100
This Supreme Court case outlawed the policy of "separate but equal" in public schools, holding that there was no compelling interest in the legal separation of races.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
This term is used to describe the difference in how men and women vote and the candidates they support.
What is the gender gap?
200
An individual or organization drafting legislation for a member of Congress is an example of this sort of lobbying.
What is direct lobbying?
200
This voting requirement helps to prevent election fraud but is inconvenient in many states.
What is registration?
200
Programs that seek to remedy the effects of past discrimination by preferring minority candidates are known by this name.
What is affirmative action?
200
A native-born American citizen can lose his or her citizenship by doing this.
What is voluntarily abandoning (or renouncing) it?
200
This judicial review test asks whether the classification in a law has a reasonable relationship to the achievement of a proper governmental purpose.
What is a rational basis test?
300
The rule expressed in the sign is an example of this form of action against minorities.
What is de facto segregation?
300
Influence exerted by the general public on government policy is given this description.
What is grass-roots pressure?
300
This voter registration requirement is believed by some to help prevent fraudulent voting by ensuring that only the actual voter can use his/her ballot.
What is voter I.D.?
300
This federal law outlaws discrimination on the basis of gender for any educational activity receiving federal funding.
What is Title IX?
300
This term is used to describe issues to which the public and government are paying attention.
What is the public agenda?
300
This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969 presided over the case of Brown v. Board of Education.
400
The discriminatory actions of the United States government towards both Native Americans and Hispanic Americans arose in part from this economic motive.
What is the desire to claim their land?
400
An interest group encouraging its members to e-mail government leaders regarding an issue of concern is an example of this sort of lobbying.
What is indirect lobbying?
400
The service member shown in the image above is most engaged in this activity.
400
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed discrimination in this field of commerce.
What is real estate (selling and renting property)?
400
This is the legal process by which a loss of citizenship occurs.
What is expatriation?
400
This judicial review test holds the classification in a law to a higher standard; the government must show that its law is related to a compelling government interest, not just an ordinary one.
What is a strict scrutiny test?
500
This document, first presented at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, stated the case for women's rights in terms that deliberately mirrored the Declaration of Independence to highlight similarities to the plight of the American colonists.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
500
Interest groups seek to influence decisions regarding these actions taken by government to address issues and problems.
What is public policy?
500
This tactic involves redrawing district boundaries so as to unfairly determine who wins elections.
What is gerrymandering?
500
This 1944 law gave veterans more economic power and education by providing low-cost mortgages, unemployment compensation, and financial aid for education and job training.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act?
500
This is the process by which people of one culture merge into, and become part of, another culture.
What is assimilation?
500
This case opened the door to cases based on discrimination against other minority groups in addition to African Americans.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?