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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| 14th Amendment | One of the Civil War Amendments; defines citizenship and equal protection |
| De Jure Segregation | Segregation established by law. |
| De Facto Segregation | Latin phrase means "by fact". Segregation that happened not because of law but tradition |
| JIm Crow Laws | Segregation laws in the South |
| Original Jurisdiction | authority of a court to hear a case for the first time |
| Appellate Jurisdiction | authority of a court to hear a case appealed from a lower court |
| Legal Brief | written document explaining position of 1 side or the other in a case |
| Majority Opinion | statement that represents the views of the majority of Supreme Court Justices on a case |
| Dissenting Opinion | statement that represents side of Justices who disagreed with the majority vote |
| "Stare Decisis" | Latin term that means "Let yesterday's decision stand" |
| Precedent | Ruling that is used as a basis for a Judicial Decision in a later case |
| Due Process of Laws | Fair and Equal Treatment in a court of Law. 5th and 14th Amendments |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) | Slave named Dred Scott. Supreme Court ruled saying that blacks are property and not citizens and had no rights under the Constitution |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Homer Plessy a black man got a ticket to ride a whites only train in Louisiana. Established Separate but Equal |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) | Banned Segregation in Public Schools |
| Briggs v. Elliot (1954) | Challenged Segregated schools in Clarendon County, SC |
| Korematsu v. United States (1944) | During WWII, Japanese US Citizens forced to move to internment camps. Supported by US Supreme Court. Examples of President's power of executive order, checks and balances and judicial review |
| University of California v. Bakke (1978) | Stops use of racial quota systems in college admissions but also affirmative action programs are contsitutional |
| Reverend J. A. Delaine | Helped start the Briggs v. Elliot case |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | One of the students whose parents filed the lawsuit |
| Thurgood Marshall | First Black Justice |
| John W. Davis | Represented losing side in Briggs v. Elliot |
| Earl Warren | 14th Chief Justice of the United States |
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