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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in the free state of Illinois. He came back to Missouri and filed suit in court for his freedom because he claimed living in a free territory made him a free man. The Supreme court basically said at the time slaves are property and can't be citizens.
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Abolished slavery.
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Anyone born in the US is automatically a citizen
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Cannot deny a citizen the right to vote based on race
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Homer Plessy sits on a 'whites only' train car and gets arrested. The ruling was 'separate but equal'; segregation is legal as long as the faculties are the same.
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Primary elections held in the Southern United States in which only white voters were permitted to participate.
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Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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Ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Policies that support members of a disadvantaged group that has previously suffered discrimination in such areas as education, employment, or housing.
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You cant condition the right to vote in federal elections by having payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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A tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Ruled that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
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A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.
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Ruling upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.
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Supreme Court upheld the banning of sodomy.
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Law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
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Laws preventing private homosexual activity between consenting adults were determined as unconstitutional.
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Ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples.