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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was an enslaved person who sued Missouri court for him and his family freedom. 11 years later it reached the supreme court. The supreme court rejected Scott's claim to freedom by 7-2, they decided whether you were free or a slave you couldn't sue in federal court because they were American Citizens. This is significant because after that court case, it preceded to the civil war. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment was the aftermath of the Civil War. It abolished slavery in the united states. In 1864, the U.S senate passed a proposed amendment banning slavery with the necessary two-thirds majority. -
14th amendment
This amendment granted citizenship to all the people born or naturalized in the united states including the former enslaved people. This is significant because it protected all the civil rights of freed slaves after the civil war. -
15th amendment
The 15th amendment was significant because it gave the right of citizens to vote and not be denied by the united states because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This is important because it protected the african american's and gave them the right to vote no matter what. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The state of Louisiana had enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. Plessy was 1/8 black and he took a seat in the "whites only" car of the train, and he refused to move and was arrested. The supreme court ruled that the separate but equal of the Louisiana was constitutional. This is important because the Jim crow laws were spread across the united states. -
nineteenth amendment
The 19th amendment was the right of citizens in the United States to vote and not be denied because of their sex. This is significant because it gave woman the right to vote and not be denied. -
Brown v. Board of education
Linda browns father didn't think it was safe to walk 21 blocks to get to her blacks only school that lacked resources. He felt that schools should be integrated as black school's wasn't as well funded as white schools. He took it to state court where they deemed the schools were separate but equal. -
Civil rights act of 1964
The civil rights act prohibited discrimination on race, color, religion, and sex. This is important because it basically ended segregation in public places. For example, when they had whites only stores and stuff, it ended things like that. -
voting rights act of 1965
This outlawed voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war. Basically, it stopped the literacy tests that were given to African Americans. And this is important because it gave them the right to actually vote like everyone else fairly and equally. -
Reed v. Reed
It was a landmark decision of the supreme court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
Title IX
This amendment prohibits sex discrimination in any sex education program that receives federal money. And, it's important because it gives each gender equal rights to educational programs and activities. -
Regents of the university of California vs. Bakke
Bakke had applied to medical school with everything he needed but was rejected twice. He sued for reverse discrimination and the court ruled that racial quotas violated the 14th amendment and they ordered that Bakke be admitted to the university of California. -
Americans with disabilities act
Prohibits discrimination based on disability. This basically is significant because it gives civil rights to people with disability. -
Obergefell vs. Hodges
the same sex couple was married in Ohio, and they didn't recognize same sex marriage. So when the spouse passed away the surviving spouse sued department of health claiming that he had a constitutional right to be listed as the surviving spouse. And the decision of this case was states have to recognize marriage in other states regardless of their sexual orientation.