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Dred Scott v. Sandford
The court case determined that no slave, or child of a slave would be able to claim US Citizenship. -
13th ammendment
slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime will exist in the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
14th amendment
All citizens born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States. -
15th amendment
Citizens right to vote will not be abridged/denied based on race/color/past servitude. -
plessy v ferguson
The Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
poll taxes
a tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults and often linked to the right to vote. -
white primaries
White primaries were primary elections held in the Southern United States in which only white voters were permitted to participate. -
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. -
Brown v Board of education
Ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
24th amendment
Rights of citizens to be able to vote in any election without having to pay a poll tax/other taxes. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
The act prohibited discrimination based on on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
voting rights act of 1965
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting -
affirmative action
Affirmative action refers to a set of policies seeking to include groups based on their gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality in areas in which they are underrepresented. -
reed v reed
It was a landmark decision in which administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes. -
equal rights amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
Bowers v Hardwick
the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private -
americans with disabilities act
ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability -
motor voter law
motor voter law was a bill passed by congress in 1963 to make it easier for americans to register to vote. -
Lawrence v. Texas
U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that sanctions of criminal punishment for those who commit sodomy are unconstitutional. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
It paved the way for same sex marriages being legal in the US