Government in America: AP Gov Chapter 5 Test Study Guide Flashcards

This Supreme Court decision invalidated a law barring African Americans from jury service and refused to extend the Fourteenth Amendment to remedy subtle forms of discrimination

The three kinds of scrutiny used by the Supreme Court to discover whether discrimination is permissible

The decisions of the Spureme Courts had been ruled somewhere between inherently suspect and reasonable on

This does not deny states treating classes of citizens differently if the classification is reasonable

Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories in this case

This repealed the Twelfth Amendment

The principle of "separate but equal" was used to justify segregation in this case

Dred Scott v. Sandford was overturned by

These were enacted by Southern Whites in the late nineteenth century to segregate African Americans from Whites

The reality of neighborhood schools located in a areas that happen to be racially segregated is an example of

The Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was inherently unequal in this case

This case permitted judges to achieve racially balanced schools through bussing

This type of segregation occurs by law

As a result of this Supreme Court decision, there was increased enrollment in private school by Whites in the South and threats to close public school

This law made racial discrimination illegal in places of public accommodation and forbade discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or gender.

This agency was created in 1964 and is charged with monitoring and enforcing protections against job discrimination

The grandfather clause was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in this decision

The legal right ot vote is called

This prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections

The dramatic increase in the number of African Americans registered to vote was an outcome of

Congressional districts that are intentionally drawn to give minority group voters a numerical majority

This prevented district boundaries from diluting the votes of African Americans and redrew district boundaries to avoid discriminatory results

The Supreme Court ruled that state legislative redistricting plans to no violate the Voting Rights Act if they do not create the greatest possible number of districts in which minority group voters make a majority in this case

The largest minority group in the United States is

This case upheld the constitutionality of the removal of Japanese Americans from the west coast and their placement in internment camps during World War II

The women's rights movement was launched as a result of the

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that protection form discrimination to Hispanic Americans, guaranteeing their right to a free trial and it was the first case in which Hispanic lawyers argued before the Supreme Court

This gave women the constitutional right to vote

When did the struggle for women's stuggle begin

In 2007, Nancy Pelosi became the

This failed because it fell three states short of sufficient ratification

Sexual harassment is prohibited by th

Paying men and women equivalent salaries from jobs requiring similar skills is known as

In this case, the Supreme Court held that employers are responsible for preventing and eliminating sexual harassment

This added handicapped people to the list of Americans protected from discrimination

____________________ is responsible for enforcing the Voting Rights Act.

This Supreme Court case decided that a compelling interest for promoting diversity on campus existed