A | B |
Civil War Amendments? | 13th, 14th 15th Amendments |
Opposed slavery? | Northern States |
Allowed slavery? | Southern States |
How effective were the Civil War Amendments? | Not very effective; it took another 100 years to enforce it |
This amendment outlawed slavery? | 13th |
The 13th Amendment outlawed...? | 1) Slavery; 2) forced labor |
Laws that restricted the rights of African American after the Civil War? | Black Codes |
This amendment defined American citizenship? | 14th |
A state cannot take a person's "life, liberty, or property" without...? | Due Process |
SD_ _? | SU |
Court case that began the process applying the Bill of Rights to the states? | Gitlow v New York |
It means, the right to vote. | Suffrage |
Allows voters to elect their senators directly? | 17th |
Granted woman suffrage? | 19th |
The 19th Amendment is often referred to as the _?_. | Susan B Anthony Amendment |
It gave citizens living in Washington D.C. suffrage? | 23rd |
Amendment that eliminated the poll tax? | 24th |
A fee that people had to pay in order to vote? | Poll Tax |
Amendment - lowered the voting age to 18? | 26th |
Rights of full citizenship and equality under the law? | Civil Rights |
Segregation laws were also called? | "Jim Crow" laws |
Unfair treatment based on prejudice? | Discrimination |
Established the policy, "Separate but Equal". | Plessy v Ferguson |
A 7 year old African American girl who could not attend the school near her home? | Linda Brown |
Court case involving segregation in schools? | Brown v Board of Education |
Court case that state segregation in schools was unconstitutional? | Brown v Board of Education |
Refused to give up her seat on a bus? | Rosa Parks |
A protest of boycotting bus transportation? | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Peaceful protest against unfair laws? | Nonviolent Resistance |
Martin Luther King, Jr was influenced by this individual? | Mohandas Gandhi |
Gave a speech entitled, "I have a Dream"? | King |
Whites and African Americans traveled together on buses to test segregation at bus terminals? | Freedom Rides |
Outlawed discrimination based on gender, religion, and national origin? | Civil Rights Act - 1964 |
Legislation that banned the unfair use of the literacy test? | Voting Rights Act - 1965 |
A form of discrimination where police office single out people because of the way they look? | Racial Profiling |
Violent acts against people because of a group they belong to? | Hate Crimes |
Mexican American organization that led the fight against segregatin in the Southwest? | Chicano Movement |
A policy to increase the number of minorities and women at work and colleges? | Affirmative Action |
Was Affirmative Action a popular policy among the people? | No; some believed it was reverse discrimination |
A native American organization that was concerned with rights? | AIM - American Indian Movement |