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| Affirmative Action | programs for minorities supported by government as a means of providing equality under the law. |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (1991) | act that required employers, schools, and public buildings to reasonably accommodate the physical needs of handicapped individuals by providing such things as ramps and elevators with appropriate facilities. |
| Brandeis Brief | 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. |
| Civil rights | 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. |
| De jure segregation | 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. |
| Jim Crow laws | legislation that legalized segregation even after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| Nationalization of the Bill of Rights | a judicial doctrine of the Fourteenth Amendment that applied the Bill of Rights to the states in matters such as segregation. |
| Plessy v Ferguson (1896) | case that ruled that states had the right to impose "separate but equal" facilities on its citizens as well as create other laws that segregated the races. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 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. |
| Separate but equal | 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. |
