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| 1986 application of Civil Rights Act to sexual harassment- in ____ ____ ____ v. _____ declared that ____ ___ is ____ ____and is prohibited by title _____ (___). |
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| meritor savings bank; vinson; sexual harassment; sex discrimination; VII (6) |
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| remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women |
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| a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States; consist of 2 separate non-profits; fought 4 the native Americans to protect their civil rights |
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| american civil liberties union |
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| 1990-prohibits discrimination on disability and requires that facilities be made accessible to those with disabilities |
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| Americans with Disabilities Act |
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| who wrote the Feminine Mystique? |
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| is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century. |
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| founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women. |
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| prisoners have the right to have their detention reviewed |
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| the supreme court prohibited racially segregated public schools and subsequently struck down most of the devices that state and local authorities had used to keep African americans from voting |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
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| became the best known Latino civil rights activist. co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist. |
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| the basic right of citizenship was not given constitutional protection until the _____ amendment |
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| requires that employer justify practices negatively affect the working conditions of women and minorities or show that no alternative practices would have a lesser impact |
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| gives congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations |
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| the commerce clause is located in article ___, section ___, clause ___ of the constitution |
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| segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice |
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| segregation imposed by law |
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in dred scott v. sanford ruled that Persons of African descent cannot be, nor were ever intended to be, ____ under the U.S. Const. Plaintiff is without standing to file a suit.
2. The ____ Clause is only applicable to lands possessed at the time of ratification (1787). As such, Congress cannot ban slavery in the territories. Missouri Compromise is unconst.
3. _____ ____ Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the federal government from freeing slaves brought into federal territories. |
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| citzens; property; due process |
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| citizenship in more than one nation |
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| term historically referring to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war |
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| a clause in the 14th amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This clause is the major constitutional restraint on the power of governments to discriminate against persons because of race, national origin, or sex |
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| Equal protection of the law |
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| prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin in the sale or rental of most housing |
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| protects citizens voting right |
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| gave the department of housing and urban development authority to prohibit housing bias against the handicapped and families with children |
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| Fair Housing Act Amendments, 1988 |
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| ensures that all people are treated equally and establishes citizenship |
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| is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 197 |
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| Electoral district boundaries drawn only to disenfranchise blacks violate the Fifteenth Amendment |
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| a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. |
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| University of Michigan Law School admissions program that gave special consideration for being a certain racial minority did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. |
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| A state university's admission policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because its ranking system gave an automatic point increase to all racial minorities rather than making individual determinations. Eastern District of Michigan affirmed in part, reversed and remanded. |
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| unlike gratz v. Bollinger, Grutter v. Bollinger did not use a ___ ___ |
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| A State's conditioning of the right to vote on the payment of a fee or tax violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
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| Harper v. Board of Elections |
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| -a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| Truman issued ____ ___ ___, racially integrating the U.S. Armed Services. |
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| also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, restricted immigration into the U.S. and is codified under Title 8 of the United States Code. The Act governs primarily immigration to and citizenship in the United States. |
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| Immigration and Naturalization Act |
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| immigration and Naturalization Service |
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| can grant citizenship and with help of FBI make investigation |
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| -an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Played with the Brooklyn dodgers. |
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| state laws formerly pervasive throughout the south requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional |
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| widely known as the Father of Liberalism. an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. his theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self. |
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| the court ruled that under the threat to national security it could not reject congressional and military judgment that disloyalty existed and must be segregated |
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| Korematsu v. United States |
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| organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism |
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| landmark supreme court case. the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by proxy, invalidated sodomy laws in the thirteen other states where they remained in existence, thereby making same-sex sexual activity legal in every state and territory of the nation. |
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| a literacy requirement some states imposed as a condition of voting, generally used to disqualify black voters in the south; now illegal |
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| national association for the advancement of colored people was active in challenging segregated educational facilities |
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| This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight. |
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| National Farm Workers/United Farm Workers |
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| the rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights |
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| a legal action conferring citizenship on an alien |
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| gave women the right to vote |
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