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Declaration of Independence
A document stating the United States independence from Great Britain, who they were currently at war with. It was written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by many other imprtant figures. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The first women's rights convention to discuss the civil, social and religious condition for women. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York. -
13th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery, except for punishment for a crime committed. It was the first of three reconstruction amendments after the Civil War. -
14th Amendment
One of the resconstructive amendments and addresses citizens rights and equal protection of the laws. It was proposed in response to the civil war. -
15th Amendment
This amendment said you cannot deny someone the right to vote based on their skin color. Gave black men the equal right to vote as white men. -
colorado becomes first state to grant women the right to vote
The amendment passed with support from the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association, a grassroots coalition of women's organizations, churches, political parties, charity groups, unions and farmer's alliances. This was the first time in U.S. history that a state referendum had passed women's suffrage into law. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities. "Seperate but equal" remained standard doctrine in the US. -
NAACP is founded
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An African American civil rights organization. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. This amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement. -
Executive Order 10450
Issues by President Eisenhower that revoked Truman's order 9835.It charged the heads of federal agencies with investigating federal employees to determine whether they posed as security risks. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A supreme court case in which the court declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white children is unconstitutional. This decision overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson. -
One Inc v. Olesen
It was the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality. -
Illinois becomes first state to repeal its sodomy laws
Illinois was the first state to repeal these laws, while 14 other states still held them even after illinois repealed them, mainly being in the south. Sodomy laws are laws that define certain sexual acts as crimes. -
24th Amendment
This amendment allowed it so you no longer had to pay a fee to vote. Poll taxes for any election was detained unconstitutional. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
Civil rights act that outlawed discriminatin based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting rights. It was signed into action by presidnet Johnson. -
Stonewall Inn Riots
A series of spontaneous, violent demonstration by members of the gay community against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. -
Title IX
Nobody is allowed to be given less of an opportunity in any institute being given federal aid in any event, sport or activity based on gender. -
APA removes homosexuality as a mental disorder
Common standard psychology viewed homosexuality as a mental illness. The American Psychiatric Assosication ratified the policy stating that homosexuality was not a mental illness, but would continue to find a cure for it. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell
(DADT) was the United States official policy on the service of gays and lesbians in the military. The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing homo sexual or bi sexual military members. -
defense of marriage act
United States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the law of other states. -
Massachusetts legalizes gay marriage
same sex marriages started as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts constitution to allow only opposite-sex couples to marry. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell is repealed
Established a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell policy allowing gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ended the policy in place since 1993 that allowed them to serve only if they kept their sexual orientation secret and the military did not learn of their sexual orientation.
