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Freedman's Bureau
-Acted as a kind of early welfare agency to provide aid for those at war. -
Southern governments
-Became functioning parts of the Union -
Assassination
-John Wilks Booth shot Lincoln while watching a play and escaped through the back of the theatre -
13th Amendment
-Abolished slavery and involountary servitude
-Firs of three reconstruction amendments -
Civil Rights Act
-Republicans were able to override Johnson's vetoes and pronounced all african americans as U.S. citizens -
The Ku Klux Klan
-Groups of southern whites
-Organized secret societies to intimidate blacks and white reformers.
-Failed -
14th Amendment
-Adressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws -
15th Amendment
-Secured the vote for African Americans
-Prohibited any state from denying a citizens right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
-Seperate but equal accomodations for whites and blacks
-Jim Crow Lawes were adopted by southern states
-They required segregated public places -
Baseball
-Urban game that demanded the teamwork needed for an industrial age
-President William Howard Taft set the tradition of throwing out the first pitch -
19th Amendment
-Prohibited any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.
-End of the women's rights movement
-Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted it. -
Committee of Civil Rights
-President uses executie powers to establish the committee
-Strengtheded the civil rights division of the justice department
-ordered the end of racial discrimination in the departments of federal government. -
Truman
-Integrated the military -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Picture-Segregation of black children in public schools was unconstitutional.
-Violated 14th Amendments -
Montgomery
-Bus boycotts
-Rosa Parks -
Beatniks
-Rebelious writers
-Made up the beat generation
-Advocated drugs
-Failed -
Greensboro, NC
-Alot of sit-ins
-students, non-violence -
Eisenhower
-Arab nations joined Venezuela to form the organization of petrollium exporting countries. -
Mapp vs. Ohio
Illegally seized evidence cannot be used in court against the accused. -
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Required that state courts provide counsel (services of an attorney) for poor defendants. -
March on Washington
-led by MLK
-largest and most successful demonstrations in U.S. history
-highlight was i have a dream speech -
Feminine Mystique
-Book by Betty Friedan
-Credited with sparking the begining the second wave of feminism in the U.S. -
SNCC
-Group of black college students
-Refused to leave a woolsworth -
24th Amendment
-Prohibited Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Escobedo vs. Illinois
required the police to inform an areested person of his or her right to remain silent -
Civil Rights Act of 1964-1965
-Made segregation illegal in all public facilities
-Equal Employment Opportunity Comission to end racial dicscrimination in employment
-Ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas in which blacks were kept from voting. -
Miranda vs. Arizona
Extended the ruling in Escobedo to include the right to a lawyer being present during questioning by the police. -
NOW
-National Organization for Women
-Adopted the activists tacticts to secure equal treatment for women -
Thurgood Marshall
-First African American judge in the supreme court -
ERA
-Equal Rights Amendment
-U.S. campaigned hard for its radification but missed acceptance.
