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Foundations of American government timeline

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws enforced to restrict african americans rights and freedoms and influencing them to work in low economy low wage jobs.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    No involuntary slavery or labor unless convicted of a crime.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Anyone that is a legal citizen of the united states can not be deprived of life,liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
  • Sharecropping/tenant Farming

    Sharecropping/tenant Farming

    Share cropping is a form of farming that a land owner allows someone to farm their land for a share of the crops.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    No legal U.S citizen shall be deprived of their right to vote.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws saying that blacks and whites must be seperate whether it is bathrooms or fountains.
  • Lynching

    Lynching

    Killing someone for a crime without a legal trial.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    State of Louisiana had a law that separated people on bus cars by skin color.Adolph Plessy who was only 1/8th African American sat on the white bus car refused to move and was arrested. Which was violation of 13th and 14th amendment.It was decided that it was constitutional under the separate but equal doctorine.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Everyone should be allowed to vote both men and women.
  • 20th Amendment

    20th Amendment

    Decides who takes over if president dies and when terms begin and end.
  • Federal Housing Authorities

    Federal Housing Authorities

    Sets standard for the way houses are built And qualification for loans.
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia

    Mexican American physician and founder of american G.I forum.
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience

    A form of peaceful protest refusing to obey laws or pay taxes.
  • Brown vs. Ferguson

    Brown vs. Ferguson

    In regards to segregation of public schools.Kids were being denied admittance into schools based on skin color.Because things had to be equal the students were granted admittance into these schools due to better facilities.
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation

    The end of seperation by skin color.
  • Orville Faubus

    Orville Faubus

    Governor of Arkansas at the time.Against desegregation in schools. Known for standing up against desegregation in 1957
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Worker for Naacp.Most known for being arrested for not giving up seat for white person. Civil rights activist.
  • Montgomery Bus boycotts

    Montgomery Bus boycotts

    Began 4 days after the arrest of Rosa Parks. African American people did whatever they could to not use busses to strike back against the Busses.
  • Civil Rights act of 1957

    Civil Rights act of 1957

    Banned tests and other things to allow everyone to vote.
  • Nonviolent Protest

    Nonviolent Protest

    Protest involving no violence what so ever. Such as sit ins no one is harmed and point is made.
  • Sit-Ins

    Sit-Ins

    Four African american college students were refused service at a whites only lunch counter.When refused they sat there quietly each day coming in and sitting thus causing one large sit in that started sit ins.
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    Favors people who have experienced discrimination and unequal pay.
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Civil rights activist that co-founded National Farm Workers Association.
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    Womens rights activist. Wrote book that people claim sparking second wave of american feminism.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Most known civil rights activist. Led peaceful protests and gatherings later assassinated. Most Known for his I have a dream speech
  • Head Start

    Head Start

    Program that helps kids get a jump on nutrition education and more.
  • Upward Bound

    Upward Bound

    Federally funded education program.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    Banned fees on voting.
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964

    Outlaws discrimination by race,color,religion or sex.
  • Veterans Rights act

    Veterans Rights act

    Protects veterans from discrimination when getting jobs.
  • Lester Madox

    Lester Madox

    Governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.Known for refusing to serve black customers in his restaurant.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    U.S supreme court justice and civil rights activist. Most known for guiding the process of getting rid of jim crow laws and becoming first black supreme court justice.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    Made legal voting age 18 yrs old.
  • Title 9

    Title 9

    Prevents sex discrimination for anything under any education program or anything getting financial assistance from federal government.
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

    Former governor of Alabama and U.S presidential candidate.Remembered as a pro segregationist and for his quote "Segregation now,segregation tomorrow,segregation forever".