-
Dred Scott was a slave who filed a lawsuit for his freedom since he was taken to a free state. Missouri had a statute that stated any person who was taken to a free state automatically became free and could not be enslaved once they returned. Unfortunately Scott lost his case which enraged abolishonists. -
The 13th amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States. It was ratified by the required 27 of 36 states on December 6th.
-
The 14th Amendment was one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States. This included former slaves and guaranteed all citizens equal protection. -
The 15th Amendment prohibited states as well as the federal government from denying the right to vote based off of race, color, or former conditions of servitude. It was the last Reconstruction Amendment. -
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It later was a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
The 19th Amendment prohibited the denial of a citizen's right to vote based off of their sex. This recognized women's rights to vote. -
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision which ruled that state law establishing racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional. It was even unconstitutional if the schools were considered "separate but equal". -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Later this would also include sexual orientation and gender identity. -
The 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. It enforce the fifteenth amendment that was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. -
In Reed v. Reed the United States Supreme Court invalidated an Idaho law that required the selection of a man over a woman to serve as administrator of an estate when both were equally qualified. It addressed that discrimination based on gender was unconstitutional because it denies equal protection. -
Title IX was a federal civil rights law passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance. -
The Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial quotas in the admissions process was unconstitutional. On the other hand it stated that a school's use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances. -
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibited discrimination based on disability. This includes employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government programs and services. -
Obergefell v. Hodges was a landmark case where the Supreme Court ruled that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples. This was due to the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause from the Fourteenth Amendment.
Looking for a timeline maker?
Create timelines for projects, roadmaps, history, lessons, legal cases, and stories with Timetoast. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.