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A slavery-related decision in which the US Supreme Court ruled the Dred Scott v Sandford Case in a 7-2 decision. Dred Scott who was living in a free state was not declared a free man because he was seen as property.
The decision ruled that African Americans were nothing more than property. The reason that the decision was ruled was to balance the amount of Slave states and the amount of Union states within the United Stats at the time of the decision. -
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Case in the U.S that questioned the segregation going on in America. The case upheld a phrase, separate but equal. The verdict of the trial caused Jim Crow laws to be common place across America. -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
A really important case in America where in-school segregation between whites, blacks, minorities of any kind were held unconstitutional. The case was really important because it allowed Whites and Minorities to co-exist within the same school districts.
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An act that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The civil rights act prevented discrimination on the base of sex, race in hiring, firing, and promoting. -
President Lyndon Johnson signed this act. The act outlawed voting discrimination in southern states post Civil War which included literacy work. -
First court case to tackle discrimination based on gender. The final verdict was that the case was ruled unconstitutional because it denied equal protection based on gender. -
A.K.A the Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. An act that prohibits sex discrimination from any education program or activity requiring federal financial assistance. -
A case that ruled the Supreme court ruled that a university's use of racial quotas in the admission process is unconstitutional. In some instances the case ruled that the school's use of action to accept more minorities in their school was in fact, constitutional.
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Law created to give equal oppurtunities to people with disabilities. The act gives civil rights protections to people with disabilities similar to people based on race, sex, origin, age and religion. -
A person by the name of Obergefell overturned Baker and their requirements for marriage. This case ended with a verdict that same-sex marriage was allowed. Because of the verdict of the court, same-sex marriage was now allowed nation-wide in the United States.
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