| 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 |