Political Reforms

By aaronxstrange

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers.

  • Separate but Equal

    Separate but Equal
    Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people.

  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    Gives people the right to elect United States senators.

  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    grants all American women the right to vote.