Gov Ch 5
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- equal protection of the laws
- part of the fourteenth amendment emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent "protection" to all people
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
- a law passed in 1990 that requires employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" for people with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against these individuals in employment
- civil rights
- policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government official or individuals
- white primary
- one of the means used to discourage African-American voting that permitted political parties in the heavily Democratic South to exclude African-Americans from primary elections, thus depriving them of vote in the real contests; determined unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1944
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination
- suffrage
- the legal right to vote
- poll taxes
- small taxes levied on the right to vote that often fell due at a time of year when poor African-American sharecroppers had the least cash on hand
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
- Equal Rights Amendment
- a constitutional amendment originally introduced in Congress in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1972, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"
- affirmative action
- a policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group
- comparable worth
- the issue raised when women who hold traditionally female jobs are paid less than men for working at jobs requiring comparable skill