AP Gov Chapter 5 Test Study Guide
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
Strauder v. West Virginia
The three kinds of scrutiny used by the Supreme Court to discover whether discrimination is permissible
reasonable, inherently suspect, and the intermediate standard
The decisions of the Spureme Courts had been ruled somewhere between inherently suspect and reasonable on
classifications based on gender
This does not deny states treating classes of citizens differently if the classification is reasonable
Equal protection of the laws
Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories in this case
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This repealed the Twelfth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment
The principle of "separate but equal" was used to justify segregation in this case
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sandford was overturned by
Brown v. Board of Education
These were enacted by Southern Whites in the late nineteenth century to segregate African Americans from Whites
Jim Crow laws
The reality of neighborhood schools located in a areas that happen to be racially segregated is an example of
De facto education segregation
The Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was inherently unequal in this case
Brown v. Board of Education
This case permitted judges to achieve racially balanced schools through bussing
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg County Schools
This type of segregation occurs by law
De jure educational segregation
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
Brown v. Board of Education
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.
1964 Civil Rights Act
This agency was created in 1964 and is charged with monitoring and enforcing protections against job discrimination
Equal Employment Opportunity Commision
The grandfather clause was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in this decision
Guinn v. United States
The legal right ot vote is called
suffrage
This prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The dramatic increase in the number of African Americans registered to vote was an outcome of
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congressional districts that are intentionally drawn to give minority group voters a numerical majority
Majority-minority districts
This prevented district boundaries from diluting the votes of African Americans and redrew district boundaries to avoid discriminatory results
Amendments by Congress in 1982 to the Voting Rights Act
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
Johnson v. DeGrandy
The largest minority group in the United States is
Hispanic Americans
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
Korematsu v. United States
The women's rights movement was launched as a result of the
Seneca Falls Declaration
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
Hernandez v. Texas
This gave women the constitutional right to vote
The Nineteenth Amendment
When did the struggle for women's stuggle begin
1848
In 2007, Nancy Pelosi became the
first female speaker of the House of Representatives
This failed because it fell three states short of sufficient ratification
Equal Rights Amendment
Sexual harassment is prohibited by th
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Paying men and women equivalent salaries from jobs requiring similar skills is known as
"comparable worth"
In this case, the Supreme Court held that employers are responsible for preventing and eliminating sexual harassment
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
This added handicapped people to the list of Americans protected from discrimination
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
____________________ is responsible for enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
The U.S> Justice Department
This Supreme Court case decided that a compelling interest for promoting diversity on campus existed
Grutter v. Bollinger