Key Terms Research

  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws passed in former US Confederate states restricting the civil and political rights of newly freed blacks.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    The 13th amendment is talking about how they have freed the slaves but they could not vote yet.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    this is when the slaves (African americans) got citizenship and equal rights but still could not vote
  • Sharecropping/Teant Farming

    Sharecropping/Teant Farming

    With the southern economy in disarray after the abolition of slavery and the devastation of the Civil War
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    no race shall be rejected as in black, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Segregation refers to the policy of keeping black and white Americans separate from one another.
  • Lynching

    Lynching

    Lynching acquired its association with violence against blacks early in the nineteenth century. It was used as a punishment against slaves who tried to escape from their owners.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    this amendment gave the women rights to vote so basically they had all the rights just like the men
  • 20th Amendment

    20th Amendment

    this amendment allowed people to be elected for federal offices.
  • federal housing Authority

    federal housing Authority

    this sets standards for construction workers and people building houses and insurance loans
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia

    From the beginning, Dr. Garcia was outraged by the discrimination against Mexican-Americans and was compelled to action.
  • Lester Madox

    Lester Madox

    He was the 75th governor and when jimmy carter was gov he was Lt. Gov.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

  • Brown V. Ferguson

    Brown V. Ferguson

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Orville Faubus

    Orville Faubus

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    this was the first bill passed for voting
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins

  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    all employees of the government branch need to be treated the same no matter if they are black white hispanic or creed.
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Chavez dedicated his life to improving the treatment, pay and working conditions for farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced.
  • Nonviolent Protest

    Nonviolent Protest

    Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. believed that nonviolent protest is the most effective weapon against a racist and unjust society. But it required rallying people to his cause.
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    explored the causes of the frustrations of modern women in traditional roles.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    African americans in the south could not vote for federal office
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
  • Head Start

    Head Start

    Head start is a national education program for anyone to go to.
  • Upward Bound

    Upward Bound

    established by Congress to help income deficient Americans enter college and graduate.
  • Veteran Rights Act of 1965

    Veteran Rights Act of 1965

    this is to pay all the veterans that are retired from serving our country
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation

    He intended to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would not pursue desegregation
  • 26th Amendement

    26th Amendement

    if you were 18 you were allowed to vote and could join the military.
  • Tittle IX (9)

    Tittle IX (9)

    no one should be denied in the education area meaning if you are a women, you were also accepted in education schools.