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Abolishment of slavery, not including a form of punishment depending on the crime.
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Focused on the right to vote, based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". These characteristics could not keep a citizen from voting.
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Prohibits the US/states from denying the right to vote to citizens based on sex. (Allowed women to have the right to vote).
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African Americans could not sue within federal court and Congress did not have the power to ban slavery on US territory. -
ratified in 1868, allowed citizenship to all people born in the US, and including former enslaved people. "equal protection of the laws". Occurred during the Reconstruction Era and focused on abolishing slavery(in that time period).
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A "landmark decision in the Supreme Court" which became know as "separate but equal". Public facilities needed to be equal in quality if there was segregation.
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established that laws in schools that resulted in segregation were unconstitutional even if they were equal in quality.
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prohibited discrimination, focusing on race, color, religion, sex, and origin. This is "a landmark civil rights and labor law". This law mainly included hiring, firing, and promotions in the work place(no discrimination within these actions).
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting, it was adopted and carried through southern states following after the Civil War. This included literacy tests as a "pre-voting" requirement.
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US Supreme court ruled that administrators of estates could not include names that discriminate based on sex/between sexes. Eliminated further discrimination between men and women.
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This is a federal civil rights law, it is a part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prevents discrimination in a school environment and within the education system.
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Universities use of racial quotas was confirmed unconstitutional yet "affirmative action".
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law focused on prohibiting discrimination of citizens with disabilities. This includes employment, location/transportation, public accommodations, and access to government buildings.
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Supreme court ruled that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.
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