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This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States
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This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States. It also forbids states from denying certain people the equal protection of the law.
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Said that the right to vote should not be infringed upon because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Southern states were able to get past this, however, by using poll taxes, literary tests, etc.
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Poll taxes were put in place in the southern states to prevent blacks from voting. These taxes were put into place from 1889-1910. These taxes were later abolished by the 24th Amendment.
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Literacy tests were put in place in the southern states from 1890-1960 in order to attemp the prevention of blacks voting.
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Determined racial segregation as "separate but equal"
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This amendment allowed women to vote in the United States
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These laws ordered the segregation of many social facets. Were in place from around 1890 to the mid 1960's
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Case ivolving Japanese internment camps, a Japanese man thought that they were unconstitutional. The court rules in favor with the United States
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Successfuly overruled the Plessy vs Furgeson decision. A black man was denied addmittance to school
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Determined segregated schooling unconstitutional
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Started by the arrest of Rosa Parks, people protested that segregation on buses was unconstitutional
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Certain percentages of jobs/education must be set aside for minorities
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This amendment stated that states can not use poll taxes as a requirement for the ability to vote
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This act prevented people from discriminating against race or sex in the process of hiring, firing, and promoting
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This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting
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Robert Kennedy delivered a speech informing citizens that Martin Luther KIng had been shot
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The Supreme Court ruled for the first time in Reed v. Reed that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited differential treatment based on sex.
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Implimented affirmative action, saying that a set number of admission spots must be set aside for minorities.
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This amendment stated that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex, and that it were to take place 2 years after ratification. The date listed is the second ratification deadline
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A case concerning consensual homosexual sodomy. The court decided that there were no constitutional protections for acts of sodomy
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This act prohibits discrimination based on disablility
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Invalidated the sodomy law in Texas, thus resulting in the invalidation of the same law in 13 other states.
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A student was denied admittance to a university, and claimed that it violated the equal protection clause
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The supreme court overruled the same-sex marriage ban in Indiana
