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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford – Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois which was a free state and in the Louisiana Territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri compromise of 1820. After going back to Missouri, Scott filed a suit in the Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his time in free territory made him a free man. He lost the case, the court saying he wasn’t even a person, but as property. -
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery -
14th Amendment
Grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War -
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote -
Equal Rights Amendment
Prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex -
White Primaries
Were primary elections held in the Southern States in which only white voters were permitted to vote. Was one method to disenfranchise most black and other minority voters -
Plessy v. Ferguson
“Separate but Equal” Doctrine It’s okay to keep races separate, as long as both races get equal things like a home, a school etc. -
19th Amendment
Granted women to right to vote -
Affirmative Action
Group of laws that aimed to get rid of the former disadvantages that people had such as race, color, religion, sex or nationality. This turned the hope of equality in the workforce a law. It said that the government workers must "tale affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment" -
24th Amendment
No more poll taxes in electing who you want to vote for, used mostly on African Americans to help them stop voting -
Poll Taxes
A tax levied as a fixed sum on every individual, mostly aimed towards African Americans -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
No discrimination in public places, schools, and made discrimination illegal for employment -
Bowers v Hardwick
This case the supreme court ruled that the constitution "does not protect the right of gay adults engaging in private, consensual sodomy. When Hardwick failed to appear in court, police came to his apartment and found he was engaging in oral sex with another male. him and his partner were arrested and in attempt to stay free, he sued the state of Georgia but lost the case. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
he ADA prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of the public life -
Lawrence v, Texas
This was a case regarding "intimate sexual conduct between two consenting adults of the same sex" The court had a 6-3 ruling that said Texas's state law criminalizing same sex intimacy was unconstitutional This was one of the first big stepping stones for LGBT+ -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Case involving same sex marriage, it reached the supreme court and was decided by a 5-4 ruling. The final ruling was that state bans same-sex marriages were unconstitutional. years later laws have been passed making same-sex marriage legal with equal protection that heterosexual couples had
