Immigrant Moves from one country to another.
Reservation is referring to public land giving them to the indians by the government.
refugee is someone who is in our country who live here for protection purposes.
Chapter 21 section 1
- Minority populations exceed white populations in different states
- African Americans have been discriminated more than any other race
- Most civil liberties were done by blacks to benefit minority
- 14% of people are black
- approximately 6 million feathered indians left today
- American settlers brought diseases that killed most of the Indian population
- Poverty, joblessness, and alcoholism are a problem with indian tribes
- Indians die at a younger age than most people today
- Higher infant death rate on average for indians
- Hispanic American, any race Spanish background
- 50 million spanish in the US. not all are mexican
- Chinese laborers were the first Asians to come here to work on the railroad
- Often faced with violence from the white guys
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 stopped Chinese Immigration only lasted 20 of 80 years it was supposed to
- Japanese were sent to concentration camps during world war 2
- Women have been treated unfairly by education, property rights, and employment opportunities. Most professional jobs are held by men.
- Illegal to pay women less then man
4/7/2014
- Those who oppose Civil Rights often believe you can't change morality by passing a law.
- Dr. King: "Judicial decrees...may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."
- 1870s-1950s: no meaningful legislation passed in regards to civil rights.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964: passed after the longest debate in Senate history (83 days). Made changes to the following: 1. Voting provisions. 2. public services (restaurants, hotels, theaters, etc) could no longer deny access based on race, religion, national origin, physical disability, etc. 3. Federal funding programs could not discriminate for those same reasons. 4. Employers and labor unions also could not discriminate for the above reasons.
- Civil Rights Acts of 1968: aka -- "Open Housing Act" -- cannot refuse selling/rent living space to a person due to race, religion, national origin, physical disability, etc. Housing is still one of the most segregated areas in American life today.
- Title IX: forbids discrimination on the basis of gender in any educational program or program regarding financial assistance. Equal funding and opportunities must be given to women athletics
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:
- Requires employers take positive steps to fix the affects of past discrimination
- Employers must meet quotas for minority groups/genders.
- Many argue this results in reverse discrimination: discrimination against the majority group; they are denied opportunities so minority groups have more opportunities.
- Color blind based on what theyre good at not what they look like
- California, Washington, Michigan, and Nebraska voters passed measures to eliminate all affirmative action plans
- The Bakke Case:
- Allan Bakke sued the University of California because he was denied access to their medical school for Affirmative Action Bakke won the trial.
- Since then the Court has made decisions regarding similar cases. quotas can be used as needed.
- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicts in 25 years, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary. No more affirmative action. Kind of wishful thinking in my opinion Section 4
- All people who were born in states or by naturalization
- 90% of people are born a citizen
- can choose to no longer be an American citizen "epatriation"
- denationalization - were your nationalization is taken back because your papers a false
- congress decides if you can travel to places.
- quotas for immigration - only so many can come to US
- Immigration Act if 1965 - did away with immagration quota system up to 270000 were allow into US each year
- Immigration act of 1990 - allows 675000 immigrants into US each year gives special privileges to special talents people doctor, ect.
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