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FREE AP COMPARATIVE GOV. AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

SECTION 6 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Americans with Disabilities Act (1991)

Answer:

act that required employers, schools, and public buildings to reasonably accommodate the physical needs of handicapped individuals by providing such things

Question 2: Nationalization of the Bill of Rights

Answer:

a judicial doctrine of the Fourteenth Amendment that applied the Bill of Rights to the states in matters such as segregation.

Question 3: Seneca Falls Convention

Answer:

in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the fight for political suffrage and supported a doctrine very similar in nature to the Declaration of Independence called the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Question 4: De jure segregation

Answer:

segregation by law, made illegal by Brown v Board of Education.Immigration Act of 1991-act that shifted the quota of immigrants to Europe and aimed to attract immigrants who were trained workers.

Question 5: Separate but equal

Answer:

the judicial precedent established in the Plessy v Ferguson decision that enabled states to interpret the equal protection provision of the Fourteenth Amendment as a means of establishing segregation.

Question 6: Plessy v Ferguson

Answer:

case that ruled that states had the right to impose "separate but equal"

Question 7: Civil rights

Answer:

the application of equal protection under the law to individuals.De facto segregation-segregation of schools and other public facilities through circumstance with no law supporting it.

Question 8: Affirmative Action

Answer:

programs for minorities supported by government as a means of providing equality under the law.

Question 9: Jim Crow laws

Answer:

legislation that legalized segregation even after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 10: Brandeis Brief

Answer:

a friend of the court opinion offered by Louis Brandeis, in the Supreme Court case Muller v Oregon (1908), which spoke about inherent differences between men and women in the workplace.