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AP Gov.Po. Chapter 5
Advanced Placement Government Chapter 5 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment adopted after the Civil War that states, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, |
| Equal Protection of the Laws | Part of the 14th Amendment emphasizing the laws must provide equivalent "protection" to all people |
| Scott v. Sandford | The 1857 Supreme Court decision ruling that a slaved who had escaped to a free state enjoyed no rights as a citizen and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories. |
| Thirteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil Warthat forbade slavery and involuntary servitude. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | An 1896 Supreme Court decision that provided a constitutional justification for segregation by ruling that a Lousiana law requiring "equal but seperate accommodations for the White and Colored races" was constitutional. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | The 1954 Supreme Court decision holding that school segregation in Topeka, Kans., was inherently unconstitutional because it violate the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection. This case marked the end of legal segregation in the United States. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | The law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of a job discrimination. |
| Suffrage | The legal right to vote, extended to blacks by the 15th Amendment, to women by the 19th Amendment and to people over the age of 18 by he 26th Amendment. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans. |
| Poll Taxes | Smalltaxes levied on the right2vote often fell due@a time of year when poor black sharecroppers had the least cash on hand This method was used by most Southern states2exclude blacks from voting Polltaxes were declared void by the 24 Amendment in 1964 |
| White Primary | 1 of the means used2discourage black voting that permitted political parties in the heavily Democratic South2exclued blacks from primary elections thus depriving them of a voice in the real contests The SC declared Whiteprimaries unconstitutional in 1944 |
| Twenty-Fourth Amendment | The constitutional amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxes void in federal elections. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to black suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of blacks were registered and the number of black elected officials increased dramatically. |
| Korematsu v. United States | A 1944 Supreme Court decision that upheld as constitutonal the interment of more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent in encampments during World War II. |
| Nineteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote. |
| Equal Rights Amendment | ConstitutionalamendmentintroducedinCngrss in1923&passedbyCngrssin1972statingthat equalityofrights underlaw shallnotb deniedorabridged bytheUSor byanystateon accountofsex Despitepublicsupport theamendment failed2aquire necc.supprtfrm 3/4ofstatelegislatures |
| Reed v. Reed | The landmark case in 1971 in which the Supreme Court for the first time upheld a claim of gender dicrimination. |
| Craig v. Boren | In this 1976 ruling, the Supreme Court established the "medium scrutiny" standared for determining gender discrimination. |
| Comparable Worth | The issue raised when women who hold traditionally female jobs are paid less than men for working at jobs requiring comparable skill. |
| Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 | A law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabiliies and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment. |
| Affirmative Action | A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment of members of some previosly disadvantaged group. |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | A 1978 Supreme Court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals soley because of their race. |
| Adarand Constructors v. Pena | A 1995 Supreme Court decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race, even for an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunities for minorities, should be presumed to be unconstitutional. |
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