| A | B |
|---|
| Civil War Amendments | tried to help African AMericans |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| 14th Amendmnet | applied Bill of Rights to states |
| 15th Amendment | attempted to gurantee voting rights to African Americans but states tried finding ways around it |
| 19th Amendment | women can vote in national elections |
| 23 rd amendment | passed in 1961 allowed resdients of washington dc to vote in presidential elections |
| 24th amendment | abolished poll taxes in 1964 |
| 26th amendment | voting age at 18 because 18 yeard olds were getting drafted to fight in the army |
| suffrage is what | right to vote |
| poll tax | payment to vote, used by states to keep african americans from voting |
| black codes | laws that tried restrciting rights of african americans |
| plessy v ferguson | ruled segregation was okay as long as seperate but equal |
| STUDY PLESSY V FERGUSON BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN CASE IN DEPTH | use the internet |
| Brown v board | girl was sent across town instead of white school close to her house, school ruled it was unconstitutional to segregate in public school, seperate is never equal |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks wont give up seat and MLK helps organzie boycott that ruled segregation on bus was against constiution |
| nonviolent resistance | marches, demonstrations, sit-ins, boycotts, freedom rides |
| Voting Rights act of 1965 | no more literacy tests, after it AFrican Americans voted in large numbers |
| Civil Rights ACt of 1964 | no more segregation in public places |
| affirmative action | minorites and women in the workplace and colleges |
| racial profiling | singling out people just because skin color or gender or race or whatever |
| discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice |
| hate crime | violent act against someone because of their race color gender diability or national origing |
| jim crow law | name for southern segregation law |
| segregation | social seperation of races |
| civil rights | rights of being a citizen and being treated fairly by the law |
