Through U.S. history, the American population has become larger and more of this.
What is diverse?
100
This type of segregation is more easily ended, due to its nature as a law.
What is de jure segregation?
100
This clause ensures that states must offer the same freedoms to citizens of other states, as to their own.
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
100
This court case set up the doctrine of "Separate but Equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
A person from another country, whether documented or undocumented.
What is an alien?
200
True or false: In the 1840s, the Irish-Catholics were welcomed with open arms, as they came to labor in low-paying U.S. jobs.
What is false?
200
This type of segregation is difficult to legislate, because it happens through personal choice.
What is de facto?
200
This clause prohibits states from restricting life, liberty, or property from their citizens.
What is the due process clause?
200
This court case struck down the doctrine of "Separate but Equal" as inherently unequal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
200
Term that literally translates to "of the soil."
What is jus soli?
300
The first immigration laws went into effect in this decade.
What is the 1880s?
300
Although several Constitutional amendments were ratified to get rid of segregation, this law finally ended legal segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
This clause ensures that all people are treated the same, before the law.
What is the equal protection clause?
300
This court case allowed reasonable discrimination by gender when drafting for the military.
What is Rostker v. Goldberg?
300
When a naturalized citizen obtained their citizenship through false means, they may lose their citizenship through a process called this.
What is denaturalization?
400
African Americans became citizens to the United States after the passage of this political action.
What is ratification of the 14th Amendment.
400
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed many types of discrimination from "public." Name one public area.
What is public accommodation OR jobs OR federal funds.
400
This test is a way to see if discrimination is reasonable or not.
What is the Rational Basis Test?
400
This court case upheld affirmative action, but struck down the concept of "quotas."
What is Regents of University of California v. Bakke?
400
Someone is considered a "jus sanguinis" citizen if this.
What is a parent, or parents, are citizens.
500
Native Americans became U.S. citizens in this year.
[If you don't know, I'll also take what year all Hawaiian residents became U.S. citizens.]
What is 1924?
[What is 1900]
500
Segregation was codified (in law) due to a series of laws called this.
What is Jim Crow?
500
This test is tougher than the other and ensures that any discrimination has a legitimate governmental purpose.
What is The Strict Scrutiny Test?
500
This court case upheld that race may be taken into account when deciding on college admissions, but that no "bonus points" may be awarded for minority status.
What is Gratz v. Bollinger?
500
A natural-born American citizen can lose their citizenship by giving it up, which is called this.