Government

By bbrush14

  • 13th amendment

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. which abolished slavery in the united states.

  • 14th amendment

    "all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” it expanded the protection of civil rights to all americans.

  • 15th amendment

    Gave Afrcan aericans men the rigt to vote by declaring that the right of citizens of the unnited states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on accont of rac, color, or previos condition of servitude.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Focused to disenfranchise and segregate African Americans

  • literacy tests

    context of american political history from the 1890s to the 1960s refers to the government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens at the federal level, and potentioal voters at the state level.

  • Plessy vs ferguson

    landmark united states supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal

  • 19th amendment

    gaurantees all american women the right to vote

  • Sweatt v, painter

    U.S supreme court case that successfully challenged the separate but equal doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case plessy v. ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of brown v board of education four years later

  • brown v. board of education

    landmark united states supreme court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional

  • montgomery bus boycott

    13 month mass protest that ended with the u.s supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

  • Civil Rights Act

    A law that authorized the national government to end segregation in public education

  • poll taxes

    A poll or head tax is one imposed equally on all adults at the time of coting and is not affected by property ownership or income.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Main provision authorized the justice department to suspend restictive electoral tests in southern states that had a histry of low black turnout

  • Reed v. Reed

    Th first U.S supreme court case to declare sex discrimination a violation of the 14th amendment. The court held that an idaho laws unequal treatment of men and women based on sex was a violation of the constitutionals equal protecton clause

  • equal rights amendment

    a proposed amendment to the us constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one's sex.

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    landmark decision by the supreme court of the united states. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy

  • Bowers v. Hardwick

    Supreme court ruled that the constitution does not protect the right of gay adults to engage in private consensual sodomy.

  • americans with disabilities act

    prohibits discrimination against people with diabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodatiom, communications, and governmental activities.

  • Lawrence v. texas

    Supreme court ruled that state laws banning homosexual sodomy are unconstitutional as a violation of the right to privacy.