Wilson Ch. 6

Unit 6 Term List – Civil Rights

Wilson Ch. 6

*Affirmative action

*Americans with Disabilities Act 1990

*Brown v. Board of Education

*Civil disobedience

*Civil Rights Act of 1964

*De facto segregation

*De jure segregation

*Equal Pay Act of 1963

*Equal Rights Amendment

*Equality of opportunity vs. Equality of result

*Fifteenth Amendment

*Fourteenth Amendment

*Grandfather clause

*Jim Crow Laws

*Nineteenth Amendment

*Poll tax

*Reverse discrimination

*Separate but equal doctrine

*Thirteenth Amendment

*Title IX (1972)

*Twenty-sixth Amendment

*Voting Rights Act of 1965

Affirmative action / Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 / Brown v. Board of Education / Civil disobedience / Civil Rights Act of 1964
De facto segregation / De jure segregation / Equal Pay Act of 1963 / Equal Rights Amendment / Equality of opportunity
Fifteenth Amendment / Fourteenth Amendment / Grandfather clause / Jim Crow Laws / Nineteenth Amendment
Poll tax / Reverse discrimination / Separate but equal doctrine / Thirteenth Amendment / Title IX (1972)
Twenty-sixth Amendment / Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Equality of result
Civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin / Opposing a law one considers unjust by peacefully disobeying, but accepting the consequences / Landmark court case in 1954 that overturned the ‘separate but equal’/segregation doctrine in schools / Prohibits discrimination based on disability / Programs designed to give preferential treatment to minorities now to make up for the wrongs of the past
Giving people an equal chance to succeed / Proposed amendment that would give equal rights to women / Outlawed discrimination in job pay based on gender / Racial segregation that is required by law / Segregation that occurs as a result of patterns of residential settlement
Prohibits US citizens from being denied the right to vote based on sex / Any law that discriminated against African Americans (mainly from 1896 – 1960s) / Law that denied the right to vote to those whose ancestors could not vote / Defines citizenship, guarantees due process rights, and guarantees equal protection of the law / The right of citizens to vote
Outlawed discrimination, based on sex, in educational programs that receive federal funding / Amendment that outlawed slavery or forced servitude in the United States / Established by the ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’ decision in 1896 – separate things for the races, but they should be equal / In an effort to help the minority through certain programs, now the majority is being discriminated against / A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
Making certain that people achieve the same result / Outlawed racial discrimination in voting / Citizens who are 18 or older can vote