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Ch 21
Civil Rights: Equal Justice Under Law
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heterogeneous | composed of a mix of ingredients |
| Immigrants | those people legally admitted as permanent residents—have arrived in near-record numbers every year since the mid-1960s |
| Assimilation | the process where people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture |
| Equal Protection Clause | declares that citizens are protected equally under the law. |
| Segregation (Jim Crow) | the separation of one group from another. Jim Crow laws, passed in the late 1800s by several States, aimed at separating minorities from the white population. |
| Plessy case "separate but equal" | provided that separate facilities for African Americans were legal as long as they were equal to those provided for whites. |
| Integration | process of bringing a group into the mainstream of society` |
| De jure segregation | segregation by law, with legal sanction |
| De facto segregation | segregation if no law requires it, has emerged in housing and schooling patterns in some areas |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964s | outlaws discrimination in a number of area |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | forbids anyone to refuse to sett or rent a dwelling to any person on grounds of race |
| Affirmative action | a policy that requires most employers to take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discriminations |
| Quotas | Such rules requiring specific numbers of jobs or promotions for members of certain groups |
| Reverse discrimination | a discrimination against the majority group |
| Bakke case | Allan Bakke (a white male) had been denied admission to the university’s medical school at Davis. He sued the university with reverse discrimination and, a violation of the 14th amendment Equal Protection Clause. |
| Title IX | forbids discrimination on the basis of sex. |
| What did Allan Bakke claim in his court case, and how did the Supreme Court rule? | that Bakke had been denied equal protection and should be admitted to the medical school |
| Citizen | a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights. |
| Jus soli | the law of the soil, or where one is born. |
| Jus sanguinis | the law of the blood, or to whom one is born. |
| Naturalization | the legal process by which a person becomes a citizen of another country at some time after birth. |
| Alien | are legally required to leave the United States. |
| Expatriation | the legal process by which a loss of citizenship occurs. |
| Denaturalization | the process by which citizens can lose their citizenship involuntarily. |
| Deportation | illegal entry to the country. |
| Undocumented aliens | live in the United States today. |
| Explain the process to become a citizen? | at least 18 have entered the country legally lived in the US for at least 5 years speak english file a petition to become a citizen be a good moral character be able to pass citizenship test swear eligiance to the US and other govs. of the U.S. |
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