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Dred Scott vs.Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri from 1833 to 1843. He resided in Illinois for a portion of time, which was a free state. But he was brought back to Missouri and made a slave once more. He then brought it to the Courts again and they ruled that he wasn't a citizen so he couldn't sue in the US courts -
13th Ammendment
The 13th Amendment was created to abolish slavery. It says that no person should be enslaved unless it's a punishment for a crime that was duly convicted. It was the legal way of ending slavery. -
14th Amendment
It granted citizenship to all people born in and naturalized into the US. It gave the freed slaves citizenship so the Dred Scott incident couldn't happen again. It also says that people are guaranteed the equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment
The rights of people wont be abridged based on the color of a persons race, color, or previous servitude. Blacks were given protections of their rights. It also gave other races more freedoms as well. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It up held that segregation was okay as long as the facilities were of equal standards. -
19th Amendment
It made it that women are equal to men it the eyes of the government. It was the bill that gave women the right to vote. -
Brown v. Board of Education
It ruled the segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Even if the school was equal to the other in quality. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It prohibits the discrimination of people based on skin color. It also help women get more rights as well. It mostly had to do with jobs not firing them and hiring them. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed the discriminatory way voting was done in the south. They couldn't use literacy test to stop voters now. It took 95 years since the 15th amendment was created to get it right. -
Reed v. Reed
They gave the estate of a son to his father when he passed, but the mother wanted it. The courts ruled that it was unconstitutional to over look a women because she's a women. -
Title IX
It prohibits sex based discrimination in any federally funded schools. It also affected any educational buildings in the same way. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
A school denied access to a man because that had to mean certain racially quotas. The Courts really didn't have a say on if that was right or wrong, but got him accepted to the school. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Prevents discrimination based of a disability a person has. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
It made same-sex marriages legal, but the were a lot of dissents because the constitution says nothing about the issue so some on the court wanted to leave it to the states to decide.
