Policies designed to give special attention or compensatory treatment to members of a previously disadvantaged group
What is Affirmative Action?
100
Largest and fastest growing minority group in US
What is Hispanic Americans or Latinos?
200
Amendment that banned slavery and involuntary servitude
What is 13th amendment?
200
This act forced colleges to begin offering funding for women's sports
What is Title IX?
200
The government-protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment
What is civil rights?
200
NAACP stands for...
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
300
Amendment that guaranteed right to vote regardless of race
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Little woman who started the big war
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Laws enacted by southern states that discriminated against blacks through multiple methods
What is Jim Crow laws?
300
Year of the Rosa Parks bus incident
What is 1955?
400
Amendment that granted citizenship to all free slaves
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Act that requires employers to pay women and men equal pay for equal work
What is Equal Pay Act of 1963?
400
Voting qualification provision in many southern states that allowed only those whose grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction to vote unless they passed a wealth or literacy test
What is grandfather clause?
400
Policy in military created by President Clinton in 1994 that was taken away in 2011
What is Don't Ask Don't Tell?
500
formally made African Americans citizens of the US
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
According to this case, the State of Oklahoma could not make the drinking age different for Women and Men
What is Craig v Boren?
500
A heightened standard of review used by Supreme Court to determine the constitutional validity of a challenged practice
What is strict scrutiny?
500
Court case which reversed the decision of the restriction of sodomy in 2003