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People were no longer able to utilize the slave trade.
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Prohibited slaves north of 36° latitude
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Women's rights convention
First major assembly of women advocating for their rights.
Addressed voting, job equality, education equality, divorcing, and property rules.
Stanton/Mott -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stirred up unrest in the United States
One of most influential novels in history
Advocated abolition of slavery
Was about the evils of slavery -
- Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
- slaves were not U.S. citizens so could not bring suits in federal court; they were property
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Freed all slaves under Abraham Lincoln
Speech was delivered at Gettysburg
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Banned all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude
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- Andrew Johnson vetoed; Congress overrode veto
- Gave government power to intervene when states restricted black rights
- was in response to the Black Codes
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Citizenship to all freed slaves Violations of 14th amendment
1. Single-sex public nursing schools
2. Laws that consider males adults at twenty-one years but females at eighteens
3. Laws that allow women but not men to receive alimony -
Right to vote regardless of race or color (not women)
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Five separate cases regarding the Civil Rights Act and its interpretation
Reinforced Jim Crow system -
Racial segregation on public trains
"Separate but equal" -
Prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex
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Felt that Asians were a threat during WWII because of the United States involvement with Japan
Very discriminatory
Racial profiling -
- Found Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional
- Found under equal protection clause
- Integrated schools
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“I have a dream” speech
Very influential in Civil Rights Movement -
- Outlawed discrimination in voting
- Banned discrimination in public accommodations
- Desegregation of public schools and facilities
- Prohibited discrimination in employment
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Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S
