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29 Cards in this Set
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1882-Chinese Exclusion Act
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denied immigration and naturalization to the Chinese (until 1943)
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1898- US v. Wong Kim Ark
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affirmed birthright citizenship of US born. Filipinos became US Nationals (until 1946)
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1922- Ozawa v. US
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Denied and removed citizenship from the Japanese (until 1952)
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1923- US v. Thind
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denied citizenship to Asian Indians
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1942- Executive Order 9066
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Internment of West Coast Japanese Americans until 1945
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1952- McCarran-Walter Act
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Granted Naturalization to Japanese and Koreans
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1965- Immigration Act
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Lifted national quotas instituted in 1924 to protect Anglo-Saxon Status
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1831 Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia
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Tribes were like wards or domestic dependent nations; Indians were domestic subjects.
Trail of tears (when Indians tried to travel outside of seized American Land) |
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1830- Indian Removal Act
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By Andrew jackson. When Indians would refuse to move, Jackson declared that they would be forced to yield to the circumstances
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1884- Elk v. WIlkins
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Denied extension of citizenship status to Indians
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1871- Treaty Making Ends with Indians
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Meant Congress would no longer deal with American Indians
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1887- Dawes (General Allotment Act) Act
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Indians granted citizenship through allotments of tribal land
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19240 Indian Citizenship Act
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gave American Indians citizenship in the US
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1934- Indian Reorganization Act
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Tribes are distinct political entities (like counties)
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1953- Indian Termination Act
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Tribal sovereignty denied to Indians (repealed in 1988)
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1968- American Indians Civil Rights Act
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Gives Indians constitutional protection against tribal government
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1975- Indian Self-Determination and Education Act
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Tribes regained sovereignty status similar to states
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1998- Executive Order 13084 (Trust Doctrine)
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Affirms tribes of their status as domestic dependent nations and federal government obligation as trustee to protect their legal, cultural, economic, and political rights
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1917 Jones Act
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Gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans
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1928-League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
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1st major US Latino Political Group
Not about protest, but about assimilation Accommodation is their strategy |
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1959- Hawaii granted statehood
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native Hawaiians were not goiven the right to vote in National Elections until then
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1975 VRA Amendment
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Outlaws English-only elections and enfranchises language minorities as long as they are 5% or more of the voting age population in the voting district
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1982 VRA Amendment
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Adopts results tests or the "totality of circumstances" criteria to facilitate the creation of majority-minority districts
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1992 VRA Amendemnt
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extends bilingual voting assistance to jurisdictions with 10,000LEP minorities
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2007 VRA Amendment
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extends VRA for another 25 years
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1971- Griggs v. Duke Power
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Outlawed discriminatory tests; start of "reverse discrimination" charges by white males
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1964- Title VII of CRA
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banned racial, religious, national origin, sexual discrimination in employment
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1969 Nixon Philadelphia Plan
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Instituted minority quotas (numerical goals) for minority employment
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1989- Richmond v. Cronson
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outlawed minority set-aside contracts, first use of "strict scrutiny"; upheld in Adarand Contractors v. Pena (1995)
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