Key Term

  • 13 amendment

    13 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,
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
  • 15 amendment

    15 amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
  • 20th amendment

    20th amendment

    The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason
  • 26th amendment

    26th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws were passed down to southern states and affected many african americans to have jobs and attend and activities
  • sharecropping tenant Farming

    sharecropping tenant Farming

    Southern farmers were challenged to find help on the crops that slaves had worked on.
  • Lynching

    Lynching

    Kill some one by hanging by alleged offence
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
  • Jim crow laws

    Jim crow laws

    State and local laws that stated racial segregations.
  • Orville Fabus

    Orville Fabus

    American politican who served as 36th government
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Was a mexican american surgeon, physician and a civil rights advocating and founder of american g.i
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Was a women that had been inspired to peacefully protest and did not give her seat up in the buses
  • Lester Madox

    Lester Madox

    American politican who served as the 76th Governor. in state georgia.
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

    American politician and 45th governor of Alabama .
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States
  • Marthin Luther King Jr.

    Marthin Luther King Jr.

    Was the head leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Made great changes in segregation. Made a famous speech
  • Federal housing authority

    Federal housing authority

    provides federal mortgage and loans.
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation

    was the ending policy of the racial segregation.
  • Brown v Ferguson

    Brown v Ferguson

    Court declared state laws establish separate schools for black and white schools being unconstitutional.
  • Nonviolent protest

    Nonviolent protest

    A type of protesting that did nor use violence. Even if received violence from other americans. Civil disobedience economically
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Event in civil rights movement. Political and social protest against racial segregation.
  • Civilc rights 1957

    Civilc rights 1957

    First federal civil rights legislation passed by the united states congress
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience

    Refusal to apply to certain laws or not paying taxes and fines.
  • Affirmative action

    Affirmative action

    Reservation in india. Policy of favoring with disabilities group who suffer.
  • Sit-Ins

    Sit-Ins

    Were a peaceful protest in the civil rights movement to sit and peacefully protest
  • Cesar chavez

    Cesar chavez

    American leader labor and civil rights activist. Co founder natiional farm workers
  • Civil rights 1964

    Civil rights 1964

    US labor law in the U.S. Discrimination based on race, color.
  • head start

    head start

    Program to help meet emotional, social, health, nutritional.
  • upward bound

    upward bound

    A higher education act
  • Veteran rights act of 1965

    Major milestone in that struggle. To understand the significance of the 1965 voting rights act
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    Associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. he was the courts 96th justice and first african american justice.
  • Title 9

    Title 9

    Federal law stating no person in the united states shall be denied participants