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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave that used to live in Missouri that moved to a free state in Illinois. Then when returning to Missouri he tried to argue that he was a free man still. Unfortunately he lost, 7-2. The Supreme court decided that he wasnt a american citizen since he was imported to the united states, therefore he was property and not a person. Court also found the Missouri compromise unconstitutional. -
13th Amendment
This abolished slavery in all forms and tried to keep any unorthodox ways from sprouting to allow people to still have slavery -
14th Amendment
This basically protected anyone from having their rights or freedoms taken away from them based off of skin color race or religion. -
15th admendment
The allowed everyone , Except women to vote. now Black, african American citizens could vote. -
Plessy vs Furgeson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. ... As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace -
Ninteenth Amendment
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. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional -
Civil rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Voting rights act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. ... This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified -
Reed vs Reed
Justice Ginsburg's work in this case prompted courts to subject gender classifications to ever more careful scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Reed v. Reed overturned an Idaho law that gave fathers automatic precedence over mothers in administering a deceased child's estate -
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
In Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances -
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' programs and services -
Obergefell v. Hodges
, Obergefell overturned Baker and requires all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions. This established same-sex marriage throughout the United States and its territories.
