A | B |
immigrant | aliens legally admitted as permanent residents |
reservation | area where Native Americans have been forced to live |
refugee | a person fleeing a war torn area |
assimilation | the process of joining another culture |
segregation | legal separation of races |
Jim Crow Laws | laws of the South that required separation of the races |
separate but equal | decision on Plessy V. Ferguson that allowed segregation |
integration | the end to segregation and forced de-segregation of the South |
de jure segregation | segregation by laws |
de facto segregation | segregation by choice or fact |
affirmative action | aggressively accepting, hiring, promoting women and minority groups |
quota | a set minimum number |
reverse discrimination | denying equality to the majority group |
citizen | one who owes allegiance to the U.S. and entitled to its protection |
jus soli | natural born citizen by birth on American soil |
jus sanguinis | natural born citizen by blood |
naturalization | process of becoming a citizen |
expatriation | legal process to lose citizenship |
deportation | legal process to remove aliens |