NAME__________________________#_______
Chapter 21 Civil Rights: Equal Justice Under Law
1 Diversity and Discrimination in American Society pp. 594-599
1. Understand what it means to live in a heterogeneous society.
2. Summarize the history of race-based discrimination in the United States.
3. Examine discrimination against women in the past and present.
2 Equality Before the Law pp. 601-606
1. Explain the importance of the Equal Protection Clause.
2. Describe the history of segregation in America.
3. Examine how classification by sex relates to discrimination.
3 Federal Civil Rights Laws pp. 608-612
1. Outline the history of civil rights legislation from Reconstruction to today.
2. Explore the issues surrounding affirmative action.
4 American Citizenship pp. 613-618
1. Identify the questions surrounding American citizenship.
2. Describe how people become American citizens by birth and by naturalization.
3. Explain how an American can lose his or her c1tizenship.
4. Illustrate how the United Slates is a nation of immigrants.
5. Compare and contrast the status of undocumented aliens and legal Immigrants.
NAME____________________________#___________
UNIT 3 CIVIL RIGHTS: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
CH. 21 S.1_
TITLE: DIVERISTY AND DISCRIMINATION
PP. 594-599
VOCABULARY
heterogeneous
1.
immigrant
2.
reservation
3.
refugee
4.
assimilation
5.
6
DEFINITION
Give 4 Facts for Each Group Related To Race-Based Discrimination
AFRICAN AMERICANS
NATIVE AMERICANS
10
7
11
8
12
9
13
HISPANIC AMERICANS
ASIAN AMERICANS
14
18
15
19
16
20
17
21
Explain Each Of The Following In Relations To Discrimination Against Women
22. As a majority:
23. Seneca Falls, New York
24. Suffrage/Politics
25. Equal Pay Act of 1963
26. Civil Rights Act of 1964
27. Education & Experience
28. "Mommy track"
29. "glass ceiling"
30. Types of work held by women
1.
NAME____________________________#___________
UNIT 3 CIVIL RIGHTS: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
TITLE: EQUALITY BEFORE LAW
CH. 21 S.2_
PP. 601-606_
WRITE THE OBJECTIVES FOR THIS SECTIONS ON THE BACK OF THE PAGE
Complete the chart by explaining each term that relates to the Equal Protection Clause.
Equal Protection
1.
Clause
Reasonable
Classifications
2.
The Rational Basis Test 3.
The Strict Scrutiny Test 4.
5.
Complete the chart by explaining each term that relates to Segregation In America.
Segregation
6.
Jim Crow Law
7.
Plessy v. Ferguson
8.
Separate-but-equal
doctrine
Brown v Board of
Education
integration
9.
de jure segregation
12
de facto segregation
13.
10.
11.
Identify 5 areas where segregation is forbidden:
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Identify 2 tests of sex-based classifications; unless met, the classification would be unconstitutional
19.
20.
2.
NAME____________________________#___________
UNIT 3 CIVIL RIGHTS: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
TITLE: FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS
CH. 21 S.3_
PP. 608-612_
WRITE THE OBJECTIVES FOR THIS SECTIONS ON THE BACK OF THE PAGE
Fill in and explain the appropriate act or case for each date indicated on the time line.
FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS TIMELINE
DATE ACT OR CASE
EXPLANATION
1964
1
2
1968
3
4
1978
5
6
1979
7
8
1980
9
10
1987
11
12
1989
13
14
1989
16. the burden of proof rests on the employee to show that discrimination
exists.
1995
15. Ward’s Cove
Packing Co. v.
Antonio
17
1996
19
20
18
21.affirmative action
22.quota
23.reverse discrimination
24.No significant civil rights legislation was passed between 1880-1957 because
25.In recent years the burden of proof in job discrimination cases is placed on
3.
NAME____________________________#___________
UNIT 3 CIVIL RIGHTS: EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW
TITLE: AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
CH. 21 S.4_
PP. 613-618_
WRITE THE OBJECTIVES FOR THIS SECTIONS ON THE BACK OF THE PAGE
CHART THE CHANGES IN U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY
Policy
Features
l. Open Frontier
Independence-1880's
2.Chinese Exclusion
Act, 1882
3.Immigration Acts of
1921, 1924, 1929
4.Immigration and
Nationality Act, 1952
5.Immigration Act,
1965
6.Immigration Act of
1990
Explain or define the following
7.Citizen:
8.Which part of the Constitution defines citizenship?
9.jus soli
10. jus sanguinis
11.naturalization
12.alien
13.How many requirements must an immigrant meet to be naturalized?
14.expatriation
15.denaturalization
16.deportation
17.undocumented alien
2 major provisions of Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986:
18.
19.
Illegal Immigration Restrictions Act of 1996:
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
4.