Levels of Government and Civil Rights Vocabulary

Hernandez v. Texas

A 1954 Supreme Court decision that extended protection against discrimination to Hispanics.

Gutter vs. Bollinger

A college gave more acceptance points to minorities

Affirmative Action

A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities

Earl Warren

Chief Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.

Monopolies

Corporations that gain complete control of the production of a single good or service.

14th Amendment

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Segregation

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Immigrant and Nationality Act of 1965

This changed America's immigration quota system.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage

communist economic system

economic system in which the means of production are owned by the government for governmental control of the resources

Civil Rights Act of 1875

law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation

Free Enterprise Economic

one in which consumers and privately owned businesses, rather than the government, make the majority of the WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM decisions

Civil Rights Act of 1964

outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

Serviceman ´ s Readjustment Act of 1944

provided World War II veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing

Patent Protections

right to exclude others from from making, using, selling, exporting the patented material