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Scot vs. sanford
We learned that the congress doesn’t have enough power to ban slavery in the territories, the rights of slave owners to have slaves is unconstitutional, and the supreme court ruled that a person of color could not vote. Ruling was a 7-2 for sanford because slaves were considered property -
13th amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and helped free slaves in the south. -
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Reconstruction
reconstruction was a time period after the civil war when they focused of completely abolishing slavery. They tried to make it one country and not separate from the north and the south. they also made the reconstruction amendments to help with reconstruction which was a bug deal. -
14th amendment
This amendment protects life, liberty, and protection and protected slaves. this also says that know one can make a law that infringes on the rights of the people, mainly made it to protect slavery. -
15th amendment
This made it so the government and the state cannot regulate who votes on the color of their race. This helped so the African Americans can vote and become a citizen. -
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Jim Crow era
The Jim Crow era was the time that laws where made to end racial segregation in the south. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are it is unlawful for a white and a black person to play a game together, a white person can’t marry a person who is ⅛ of black, Chinese, or Japanese blood, different colored children should be in different schools and it unlawful for them to do so, and when you are riding a train, African Americans should be in a different train cars than whites. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Ruling: 7-1 for Ferguson
Does the separate car act violate the 14th amendment?
Louisiana made a separate car act which said that whites should be in different train cars than African american -
19th Amendment
This amendment prohibited the state and federal government from denying people based on their gender. -
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Scottsboto Boys
The scottsboro boys where a group of African American Men and teens who where accused of raping two women on a train. They where in prison for an unreasonable amount of time. This has to do with the south and how they felt with cases like this and how bad it was. -
George Stinny case
George Stinny was a boy who was accused of raping a two girls when he really didn't. His court case was a major example of cruel and unusual punishment and against the due process clause because he had a very few of them that he actually got. He was sentenced to death at the age of 14 and this happened in the south and a huge debate for a long time. -
Brown vs. board
In brown vs. board, an African American student wanted to get into an all white school because it has better teaching. They are going against the law that states the segregation of students in public schools. the decision was unanimous stating that this did violate the equal protection clause. -
Civil rights act of 1964
This act banned the segregation of races in all public places in America. The idea of segregation sometimes just happens in places. for example, Detroit and the 8 mile street divides the African Americans in the city, from the Whites in the suburbs. -
24th amendment
For the 23 amendment, they made it so voting is free of charge and they did this so the poor people can still vote. -
Voting rights act of 1965
This is an act that makes it that anyone can vote. this was supported by the 15th amendment that states that restrict people of color from voting. they even tried to circumvent the 15th amendment by doing all of these things you should have and do so you can vote. -
Civil Rights act of 1968
This act made it so realtors or anyone cannot not sell a house or dwelling because of their race. Just because of this, it doesn't mean people don't do it. the realtors would threaten the whites by saying that the blacks will buy it before they will, and so they would buy it fast. -
California vs. Bakke
Bakke was a 35 year old white man who was rejected at the university of California because of his race. he pleaded that it was against the 14th amendment equal protection clause. the ruling was 8-1 for bakke with help from the civil rights act of 1964. -
Gratz v. Bollinger
University of Michigan’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions had a rule saying that if you are a minority, then you are have a 60 percent chance of making it in the college then a normal white. so two kids sued the college saying it was against their 14th amendment equal protection clause and they one by a decision of 6-3 for the two students saying that is did violate this amendment. -
Meredith v. Jefferson Co Board (2007)
In a school, they made it so there can't be more than 50% backs or less then 16% blacks in a school at once. a family took this to court saying it was against their 14th amendment right to racial classification. when it reached the court, they made a decision on
5-4 against the school board saying it was against their 14th amendment rights. -
Shelby County v. Holder
This was a court case about the 10th, 14th, and 15th amendment because Shelby is saying that section 4b and are unconstitutional because it is against the amendments i listed. the court decision was 5-4 for Shelby, so they got rid of this extension.