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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
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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.
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