Notes 4/1/14-4/8/14

• A heterogeneous society is composed of different people or cultures.
• An immigrant is a person that assumed to be legal within a different country.
• Reservation is public land given to the native Americans  by the government.
• A refugee is somebody that moves to another country to seek protection.
• Assimilation is when you change your culture to adapt to a different culture.
• populations that have grown would be: African american, Hispanic and Asian american.
• Minority populations exceed white populations in Texas and California.
• More females then men 
• African Americans have been treated bad longer then most 
• American settlers have brought diseases that hurt Indian population
• Poverty  plagues many reservations today
• Hispanic Americans have a Spanish speaking background  
• Chinese laborers often faced violence due to taking whites jobs
• Railroads were being built by Chinese laborers 
• Chinese exclusion act of 1882 lasted for 80 years
• All Japanese were evacuated from the u.s.
• Congress eventually admitted that it was wrong to do so
• Those who oppose Civil rights often believe you cant change morality
• Judicial decrees may not change the heart but they can restrain the heartless
• 1870-1950: no meaningful legislation
• Civil rights act of 1964 passed after 83 days
• Voting provisions were changed^
• public services^
• federal funding programs^
• employers and labor unions can also not discriminate^
• 1968=housing act- cannot refuse selling living space to a person due to race or religion 
• Equal opportunities must be given to both women and men
• Affirmative action requires employers to take positive steps to fix the affects of past discrimination
• employers must meet quotas
• reverse discrimination  is discrimination against the majority group
• The Bakke Case  was when Allan Bakke sued the university of California because he was denied access to their medical school 
• Quotas can be used when needed
• Within the next 25 years the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary  
• A citizen is a person that swears allegiance to the u.s.
• before 1860 citizenship didn't matter
• constitution declares that a person becomes an american citizen in two way: by birth or naturalization
• 90% of Americans are citizens  by birth
• naturalization is the legal process by which a person can become a citizen 
• naturalization is done individually 
• Congress can not take away your citizenship 
• marriage does not make you a citizen 
• congress has exclusive power to regulate the crossing of the nations borders
• 270,000 immigrants are allowed into the u.s. each year 
• 670,000 immigrants can today enter the u.s. each year
• People can be denied entrance to the u.s by there characteristics
• biggest reason for deportation are, illegal immigrant, or conviction of a serious crime