1 | heterogeneous | | _____ | a description of the mixture within the American population |
2 | immigrant | | _____ | used initially used against African Americans to legally segregate |
3 | reservations | | _____ | the process by which one group is brought into mainstream society |
4 | refugee | | _____ | requiring a certain number to offset discriminatory practices of the past |
5 | Assimilation | | _____ | legal process where aliens are required to leave the U.S. |
6 | segregation | | _____ | legal process by which one becomes a citizen after birth |
7 | Jim Crow Laws | | _____ | discrimination against the majority group (tends to be white males) |
8 | separate-but-equal doctrine | | _____ | upheld by the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 |
9 | integration | | _____ | segregation by practice or custom (All white neighborhoods created by realtors) |
10 | de jure segregation | | _____ | requires employers to take positive steps towards remedying past discriminations like only hiring white men |
11 | de facto segregation | | _____ | immigrant who seeks protection from dangers like war or persecution |
12 | affirmative action | | _____ | when a court determines someone loses citizenship through fraud or deception |
13 | quotas | | _____ | law of the blood; circumstances in which a child is born abroad by U.S. citizen(s) |
14 | reverse discrimination | | _____ | separation of groups |
15 | citizen | | _____ | people admitted into this country |
16 | jus soli | | _____ | public lands set aside by the government for Native American use |
17 | jus sanguinis | | _____ | segregation by law (all-black schools in Jim Crow South) |
18 | naturalization | | _____ | when one culture merges into another to become a part of it |
19 | alien | | _____ | owes allegiance to the United States and is entitled to its protections |
20 | expatriation | | _____ | citizen or national of a foreign state |
21 | denaturalization | | _____ | when someone loses citizenship |
22 | deportation | | _____ | law of the soil; citizenship based on being born in the U.S. or U.S. jurisdictions |