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Mr. Welsh
AP GoPo
March 2013
Equal Rights Under the Law
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Natural Rights
Affirmative Action
Women’s Suffrage
Equal Protection Clause
Due Process Clause
White Primary
Racial Gerrymandering
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Majority-Minority District
Jim Crow Laws
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
Commerce Clause
Class Action Suit
Racial or Religious Restrictive Covenants
#1. Explain the difference between civil liberties and civil rights.
#2. List and define the different types of “equality” listed in the chapter.
#3. What was the basic conclusion of the Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders?
#4. Describe the path of women’s suffrage beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention.
#5. Why has it been a struggle for Asian Americans to gain equal rights?
#6. The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment only applies to the actions of government.
Explain how this might limit true “equal rights.”
#7. What are the 3 constitutional classifications/tests the Supreme Court uses to determine is a law
complies with the equal protection clause? Explain each.
#8. What did the decision in Washington v Davis (1976) rule?
#9. How were African-Americans deprived their right to vote? How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965
attempt to fix the problem?
#10. Explain how Brown v Board of Education of Topeka reversed the ruling in Plessy v Ferguson.
#11. How are de jure segregation and de facto segregation different?
#12. Explain the position of reverse discrimination with regards to affirmative action.
#13. How did the ruling in University of California Regents v Bakke decide the fate of affirmative action?
Why has there been so much uncertainty since the ruling?