Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Political Science
Chapter 5, 8 and 14
6
Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
10/30/2011

Additional Political Studies Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Jim Crow Laws
Definition
disenfranshise blacks, segregate races
Term
Mechanisms to exclude black voters
Definition
white primary, poll tax, literacy tests
Term
Grandfather clause
Definition
if your grandfather had the right to vote, so do you (excluded all black voters and saved whites from the literacy tests that would have excluded them)
Term
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Definition
sat in whites only railroad car
"equal protection" is only "political equality" and laws can be segregating
"separate but equal" doctrine
Term
NAACP's legal strategy
Definition
political equality
-Smith vs. Allwright
-threw out white primary
social equality
-Sweat vs. Painter
-all black law school not equal
Term
Brown vs. Board of Education
Definition
class-action suit
-eliminated "separate but equal"
-schools must desegregate
-had to force state compliance
+national involvement
+political change through elections
Supporting users have an ad free experience!