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AP GOV Ch.19 Siftar
AP US Government Ch. 19 Wilson - Kinnick
Questions | Answers |
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What are Civil Rights | The rights of citizens to vote, to receive equal treatment before the aw, and to share equally with other citizens the benefits of public facilities. |
A slang expression for African Americans that emerged in the 1820's and came to signify the laws and governmental practices designed to segregate blacks from whites, especially in the American south | Jim Crow |
Equality of opportunity | A view that it is wrong to use race or sex to discriminate against or give preferential treatment to minorities or women. |
What was the Black Predicament | a number of racial discriminations the black race had to face in America |
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States | The 14 Ammendment |
"Seperate but equal" | Plessy v. Ferguson |
What does De jure segregation mean? | segregation by law |
Who led the first boycott during the civil rights era? | Martin Luther King Jr. |
Who unleashed police dogs and fire hoses on blacks? | Eugene "Bull" Connors |
This says that some different treatment is reasonable and not arbitrary. | reasonableness standard |