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Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was enslaved in the Missouri- Louisiana territory, where slavery was against the law due to the Missouri Compromise. He filed law suits until the US Supreme Court ruled him a slave by law because the compromise does not regard black people. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment to the US constitution is the act of abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude. The senate passed it in 1864, followed by the house in 1865. To ratify the amendment, a specific amount of the states had to vote to put it into place. -
14th Amendment
This amendment was put into place to give all born or naturalized US citizens will be given equal rights and opportunities. The person will not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without a proper process taken by law. -
15th Amendment
This amendment was created to ensure that no government, that being federal or state, deny any citizen the right to vote no matter their race, color, or previous servitude conditions. Land marked as the 3rd and last part of reconstruction to the Amendments. -
White primaries
The white primary was created by white democrats to disenfranchise black and minorities from voting. Laws were passed to raise the voting registration requirements in all the states. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This supreme court case touches base on the issue of segregation. This law says that under the constitution, public accommodations can be segregated as long as they're equal in quality. Came to be known as "separate but equal". -
19th Amendment
This amendment was placed into the Constitution to ensure no one is discriminated against in the chance to vote based on their sex. -
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Brown v. Board of Education
Decision of the US Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that US. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Affirmative Action
This focuses in on the policies that support members of groups with disadvantages that previously have suffered from discrimination like in employment, education, or real estate. -
Poll Taxes
A poll tax was put into place as the prerequisite for voting. The main reason for this was due to reconstruction. The people had to find a way to keep African Americans from voting. The requirement applied to all people, but potentially hindered blacks, women, and poor citizens. -
24th Amendment
This amendment was put into place to give all citizens the proper right to vote in primary and other elections relevant. Citizens can no longer be denied such for failure to pay taxes. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil rights and labor laws act outweighs discrimination in the United States based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This act brought an end to unequal voting registration applications and racial segregation of any public or private business. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This was put into place to aim at legal barriers upon the state and local levels that prevented African Americans to exercise their right to vote. The right to vote was supposed to be guaranteed by placing the 15th amendment in the Constitution. -
Reed v. Reed
An Equal Protection case in the US in which the Supreme Court ruled that the administrators can't be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The amendment began as a proposal to the Constitution. This amendment was designed to guarantee equal legal rights to American citizens no matter the sex. This was put into place in hopes to eliminate discrimination of men and women in any legal battle or situation such as employment and divorce. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Upheld affirmative actions allowing race to be one of the several underlying factors into college admission. This was landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. -
Bowers v. Hardwick
This case establishes rights for gay men performing sexual acts in their own home. A Georgia police officer tried to charge them for sodomy, which was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court, overturning the Georgia law, which established rights. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
This is another law put into place that eliminates discrimination of any and all American citizens. This act is a law that ensures that people with a disability will not be discriminated against. -
Lawrence v. Texas
Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief,expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions -
Obergefell v. Hodges
This is a landmark Civil Rights case in which the US Supreme Court ruled it fundamentally acceptable to have the right to marry same-sex by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment to the Constitution.
