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| What are the three Civil Rights Amendments? |
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| the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments |
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| What two things do U.S. Citizens use interchangebly? |
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| What is something the government must actively protect and guarantee? |
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| What are three examples of Civil Rights? |
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Discrimination
Racial Profiling
Equality of Opportunity |
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| What is something that the government must not interfere with? |
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| What is a main example of civil liberties? What are two examples of this example? |
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Amendments
Freedom of speech and religion, and right to bear arms and privacy |
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| What is a specific incident where the government protected Civil Rights? |
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| Little Rock 9. Eighsenhower commanded the army to escort them in the school. |
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| What is a specific example of the government not messing with civil liberties? |
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| Wesborough Baptist Church |
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| What does most of the history of Civil Rights deal with? |
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| the rights of African Americans |
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| What are three things that makes up most of Civil Rights with African Americans? |
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Slavery
Segregation
Discrimination |
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| What are two kinds of battles that are related to Civil Rights? |
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| legal and political battles |
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| What are four other groups that Civil Rights are extended to? |
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Women
Hispanics
LGBTQ community
The disabled |
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| There was no federal regulation of slave trade for how many years after ratification? Why? |
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20 Years
They punted on the issue |
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| How much did a slave count as a person for appointment and taxation? |
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| What kind of representation is in the Senate? |
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| In 1807, what was there a ban on? |
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| How was the South's reaction to the ban on slave importation? Why? |
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it was uncontested (no objection)
Zero new slaves coming in ment that the current slaves were worth more |
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| Which crop was becoming dominant in the South? |
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| With cotton being the dominate crop in the South, what did the Southerners do? |
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| They fought tooth-and-nail to keep the institution of slavery alive |
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| Why did the Southerners want to keep the institution of slavery alive? |
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| Because cotton was hard to pick, and it required a lot of people |
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| How was the balance of slave states and non slave states in the Senate? |
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| Delicate Balance (roughly equal) |
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| In 1819 what state petitions for statehood as a slave state? |
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| What put maine and Missouri as free and slave states? |
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| The Missouri Compromise put maine and Missouri as free and slave states, and what did it set? |
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| set the boundry on slavery at 36 30 |
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| What does the 36 30 mean for states? |
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| Anything above that line is a non slave state, and anything below it is a slave state |
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| What kind of pairs where most new state put in? Why? |
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Slave/free pairs
To keep balance in the Senate |
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| What did the westward expansion bring? How did the South feel about this? |
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more land for free states
They felt threatened |
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| How did the North feel about the goods they were producing in comparison to the South? |
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They felt like theirs costed more because they had white men working, while the South had slaves working
(slave labor devalued free white labor) |
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| Who introduces a bill to gut the Missouri Compromise and ban slavery in recently-aquired territories? |
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| What was the bill called that gutted the Missouri Compromise and banned slavery in recently-aquired territories? |
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| What did California need for it to become a free state? |
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| requires the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law |
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| In 1850 Senators Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas introduce what? |
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| What did the Compromise of 1850 do? |
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| provided for popular sovereignty within territories |
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| What is the people and states making up their own decisions? |
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| What case overturns the Missouri Compromise? |
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| What happens when the Missouri Compromise was overturned? (3) |
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Whigs dissolve
Demacrats Split
Republicans emerge |
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| What does the Missouri Compromise enforce? |
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| After the Missouri Compromise, the Whigs ______, the Democrats ________, and the Republicans _________. |
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| What was a major threat to slavery? |
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| Why was the election of 1860 a major threat to slavery? |
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| Republicans won majority in both chambers and the presidency, and they were an unstoppable force to crush slavery |
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| What lead to the Civil War? |
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| Succession of Southern States |
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| What are two things that the Emancipation Proclamation did? |
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Freed slaves in the confederacy
Attracted Southern defectors |
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| When did slavery officially end? |
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| What was the post war predominated by? |
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| What did the 13th Amendment do that made Southern States still not have majority? |
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| Repeated the 3/5th rule for African Americans because the South had more people than the North |
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| The 14th Amendment was ratified to provide what for ALL? (2) |
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| Due Process and Equal Protection |
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| What did the 14th Amendment also reduce and for what reason? |
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| Reduced appointed seats for states where the right to vote was curtailed. |
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| Why was the 14th Amendment passed? |
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| Because former CSA state governments disbanded (broke up) and replaced with military districts. (People loyal to the Union) |
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| What did the 15th Amendment do? |
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Officially enfranchised blacks (Right to vote)
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| Who did the 13th 14th and 15th Amendment benefit? |
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| What are the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments known as? |
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| What ended reconstruction? |
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| 1876 presidential election |
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| What was the name of the president that said he would end reconstruction? |
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| In 1890, there were passages of several Jim Crow Laws. What did these do? |
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| They dienfranchised blacks, and physically separated the races. |
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| What is completely separating the races called? |
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| Intitutionalized segregation |
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| When were the Jim Crow laws upheld? |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| What are three ways that southern states prevented blacks from voting? |
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White primaries
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests |
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| What are white primaries? |
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| Non-White voters are not allowed to vote |
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| Who was among the hardest hit by the Great Depression? |
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| Even though blacks were hit hard by the Great depression, what party did they still vote for? |
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| What did a lot for the poor blacks that were affected by the Great Depression? |
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| Who did the blacks vote for after the New Deal? |
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| What is it called when the people completely switch parties? (go from republican to democratic) |
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| Where did a lot of blacks move? Why? (3) |
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| North, fewer voting restrictions, more vibrant living, and more work |
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| What did Truman propose? Did it pass or fail? |
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Civil Rights Legislation
Never passed, but it did adopt the platform |
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| What was adopted in 1948 that helped with equal rights for blacks? |
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| Pro-Civil Rights Platform |
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| What happened to Southern Democrats? |
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| Who did the Southern Democrats run under the Dixiecrat label? |
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| In 1957 who introduces the Civil Rights Act? |
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| Senate Majority leader Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) |
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| What party was Lyndon Johnson in? |
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| If Lyndon Johnson wanted to win presidency, whose votes did he have to get? |
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| What did Lyndon Johnson want to allow blacks to do with his Civil Rights Act? |
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| Allowed blacks to sue in federal court for being denied the right to vote based on their race |
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| In the 1960's, blacks protested and drew national attention. What was a leader that arose from this? |
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| What happened to Kennedy when he proposes legislation to give blacks more rights? |
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| After Kennedy gets assassinated, who proposes an even stronger legislation? |
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| Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Who led this group? |
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| Republicans led by Barry Goldwater |
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| What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do? |
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| Officially ended segregation and gave federal government authority to enforce it. |
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| Who won the election of 1964? |
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| Democrats and Lyndon Johnson |
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| What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do? |
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| Ended practice of denying blaks right to vote. It authorized the Department of Justice to ensure equal voting rights |
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| In the 1965 Voting Rights Act, in order to ensure equal voting rights, what the states have to obtain? |
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| Which section of the voting rights act is still under consideration today? |
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| What did the 1965 Voting Rights Act lead to a huge increase of? |
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| black registration favoring the Democrats |
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| What were other groups that were affected by the post-1960s Civil Rights Reform? (Besides blacks) |
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| Did segregation still exist after the civil rights reform? What was the saying for this? |
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Yes
De facto (the practice) segregation still existed (as opposed to de jure(by law)) |
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| What did the Courts and Justice Department have to do to force integration (mix the schools up with colors of people)? |
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| What is affirmative action? |
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| Policies sought to compensate for years of discrimination in employment |
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| For jobs with blacks, getting hired was pretty difficult, but what was harder? What fixed this? |
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Getting promotions
Affirmative Actions |
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| What did the court case Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke (1978) do? |
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| Outlaed racial quotas (Could say "Only have one black person as manager and make the rest white") |
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| What did most cases that related to AA deal with? |
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| Who wanted the right to vote also with the 15th Amendment? (Its a vocab word, so don't say a person...) |
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| Who was mostly smarter, A white woman or a black male? |
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| When were women granted the right to vote? |
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| What other thing did the 1964 Civil Rights Act include? |
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| provisions prohibiting discrimination based on sex |
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| From 1970-1990 there was a series of legislation passed for what? |
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| What are two examples of extending womens rights that was in 1970-1990? |
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Title XI of the Higher Education Act (1972)
Family and Medical Leave Act (1993) |
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| Which was worse, claims of sexual discrimination and harassment or claims of racial discrimination? |
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| Claims of sexual discrimination and harassment |
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| Who investigated the claims of sexual discrimination and harassment, and of racial discrimination? |
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| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) |
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| What was the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission established by? |
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| What did the 1970 voting rights act do for hispanics? |
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| required that ballots must also be available in Spanish |
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| How much percent of the population is hispanics? |
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| What did the Alexander V. Sandoval (2001) case say? |
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| States can have English- only driver's license tests |
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| What was one of the main reasons why the Alexander v. Sandoval case said that States can have English- only driver's license tests? |
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| Because the road signs are in English so you must be able to read/ speak english |
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| Who have fewer rights, legal immigrants, naturalized citizens, or illegal immigrants? |
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| What states arrest you if you are an illegal immigrant? |
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| Why do hispanics have trouble voting? (not language, but what?) |
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| they don't have enough money for photo ID requirements |
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| What is the hispanic population growth doing? |
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| Since the hispanics population is outpacing everybodys, what does this mean? |
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| the future is bright for Hispanic Rights |
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| What percent of people support the gays? What did it use to be? |
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| Is the LGBT community growing? |
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| not necessarily. It is becoming more open though |
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| What did the Lawrence v. Texas case do? |
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| protected the privacy for the gay community by declaring antisodomy laws unconstitutional |
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| What are antisodomy laws? |
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| Anything other than guy girl sex |
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| About how many state ban gay marriage? How many states don't ban it? |
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| The Civil Right Act is largely missing on what? |
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gay people who are gay... GAY GAY GAY
HA GAYYYYYYYYY |
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| Obama went to the Justice Department to stop defending what? |
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| The Defense of Marriage Act constitutionality |
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| What does the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) do? |
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If you are in a state that allows gay marriage, then that state does not have to recognize it
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| In 2010-2011, what was there a repeal of? |
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| What is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? |
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| You can be gay and be in the military, but you can't be out and be gay and still be in the military |
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| Who created the 1990's Americans with disabilities Act? |
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| What dit the 1990 American's with disablities Act do? |
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| Bars (stops) discimination in employment, transportation, public accommodations, and telecommunications against people with physical and mental disabilities |
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Term
| Is the law clear on what a disability is? |
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| What did the Sutton v. United Airlines case of 1999 declare? |
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| If vision is correctable to 20/20, Americans with Disability Act doesn't apply, so airline can refuse to hire you |
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| What did the PGA Tour v. MArtin case of 2001 declare? |
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| Casey Martin can use a golf cart in the PGA Tournament because his atrophied leg constitutes a disability |
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