Diversity and Disremination

A Heterogeneous Society-
The population of the United States is predominantly white. The first census in 1790 reported that there were almost 4 million people living in this country. As the nations population grew over the decades so did the proportion of Americans that were white. Immagrants have arrives in near record number every year since the mid-1960s. The growth in ethnic population have grown at rates several times that of the white population.

Race-Based Discrimination-
African Americans:
1. constitute the second largest minority group in the United States.
2. have been the victims of consistent and deliberate unjust treatment for a longer time than perhaps any other group of Americans.
3. most of the gains of the nation has made in translating the Constitution's buarantees of equality into a reality for all persons have come out of efforts

Native American:
1. Some million of Native Americans lived in what was to become the United States while the settlers were arriving around there area.
2. By 1900 their numbers had fallen to less than 250,000 due to the diseases brought by the white settlers.
3. More than 2.8 million Native American live in this country. Some live near reservation and other live outside of the reservation.

Hispanic American:
1. Are those in this country who have a Spanish-speaking background; many prefer to be called Latino. At least 24 million people have come from mexico or can trace their ancestry there.
2. Another large group of hispanic americans that now have close to 3 million. Most of them have settled to the eastern part of the United States.

Discrimination Against Women-
1. In the United States women are not a minority, in fact, they are a majority.
2. Very few carerrs were open to women before the 1960s. Women with college degrees often took jobs as typists or secretaries.
3. The Bureau of Labor Statistic reports that 98 percent of all secretaries today are women.

History-Social Science Content Standards.

12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Explain how economic rights are secured and their importance to the individual and to society (e.g., the right to acquire, use, transfer, and dispose of property; right to choose one's work; right to join or not join labor unions; copyright and patent).

Explain how one becomes a citizen of the United States, including the process of naturalization (e.g., literacy, language, and other requirements).

12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

Understand the changing interpretations of the Bill of Rights over time, including interpretations of the basic freedoms (religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly) articulated in the First Amendment and the due process and equal-protection-of-the-law clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Explain the controversies that have resulted over changing interpretations of civil rights, including those in Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, and United States v. Virginia (VMI).

12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).

12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments

Explain how public policy is formed, including the setting of the public agenda and implementation of it through regulations and executive orders.

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