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Was laws that enforced racial segregation in the south between the end of reconstruction in 1877. Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine imitators including Joseph Jefferson The term came to be a derogatory epithet for African Americans and a designation for their segregated life. Another person that helped the jim crow laws pass was Thomas Dartmouth
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The Indian Removal Act was a act where they tried to get the Indians to move to another place because they wanted all the land that they could have so they made a Treaty that any land west of the Mississsippi and they had to give up all of the land that was part of the United States. A lot of indians didn't want to move and some died in the process because of the condition of the move Approximately 4,000 Cherokee died on the move to their new land. John Ross was a Cherokee Chief
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The First Wave of Feminism was an organized feminist movement in the United States which were where women could protest to get the same right and same pay as men do some of the things they were protesting were voting, equal pay, and working in jobs that men work in. Some Important people that were part of the Wave were Sojourner Truth she was an African American who was the Frist wave, Feminist group she was also born into Slavery
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The Carlise Indian industrial school was for Indians that were US citizens so they were forced to learn the English Languge and dress like one and they had to also appear as if they were white people the school was also a way for the Americans to get rid of the Indians. The person that did all of this is Captain Richard Henry Pratt he was the one that founded the school
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was an act in which the United States did not let any Chinese people come to the United States. The Chinese people that wanted to come to the United States were ready to work. One person that was involved with this Act was William Lyon Mackenzie King Prime Minister of Canada leader of the Liberal Party who helped preserve the unity of the Enlish and French.
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The Dawes General Allotment Act law provides for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans. this act was for Native Americans to receive land and became U.S citizens subject to federal, state, and local laws. Important people that were part of this were Henry L. Dawes he did the terms and determined the suitability of the recipients and issues the grants
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The Naturalization Act was an act to make everybody the same like Indians mexican's and black to act like they were white they made everybody speak English. Matthew Henson was on seven the Arctic and Polar expeditions reaching the North Pole
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The great migration was one of the largest movements in the United States' black southern relocation to northern and midwestern cities including New York, they were an opportunity for the black population for labor work and supply in non-agricultural industries
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Immigration Act was an act where people from other countries wanted to come to the US, especially from Asia. They also had to pay 8 dollars for the taxes of coming and staying in the US. The bill was restricted for immigration that they had like mental and physical handicaps, the poor, and people with criminal records
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The Native American Citizenship was an act where every Native American who was part of the United States. Some states gave some of the Native people the right to vote. Henry Mitchell describes the act toward the Native Americans that the people up in Maine were the last people to agree with this act
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The Buck V. Bell court case was about a statute it did not violate the Constitution the circuit court and the country and the Supreme Court of Appeals reviewed the case and found nothing that violated the Constitution
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Executive Order 9066 is an order for all the government security that all of the Japanese people that live in the United States either have to go to an Isolated area watched by the military or they have to go back to their country they activated this order right away in just over 6 months and over 100,000 men and women and children that are Japanese the all went to camps
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Executive Order 9980 authorized the establishment of review boards within federal executive departments and agencies to which employees claiming racially discriminatory treatment could appeal. Harry S. Truman was our 33rd President of the United States of America he had some accomplishments in his life like becoming the first president to address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest against segregation and how they were seated on the bus. All of the black people had to seat in the back of the bus and the white people got to seat in the front of the bus they had a group of protesters the leader of the group was Martin Luther King Jr which he also became the leader of the American Civil rights movement
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The Indian Relocation Act was an article to the government of the United States written by the Indians that stated that the government should give money to the Indians for the land that they toke and if they don't then they are going to sue the United States because they took land and didn't pay them
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The Greensboro Sit was another protest against the coffee shop that didn't want to serve an African American because of her color and so then more people join to the action and they left the business without money.
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The Second Wave of Feminism was the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920. The women during the first wave were that they won the right to vote, The Second wave began when a book was published by a French feminist whose name was Simone de Beauvoir the book is focusing on womanhood and outlined how women have historically been. Simone de Beauvoir was bored on January 9, 1908, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris she is an existentialist philosopher and feminist activist
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Selma to Montgomery Marches is a march in which Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators. They went on a 5-days 54-mile march there were also local African Americans the student's Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christan Leadership Conference. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta Georgia he was a baptist minister and and leader of the civil rights movements he was assassinated on April 4, 1968
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voting rights act was an act where African Americans can vote and have a say in the government but some of the downfalls of doing that were that they could get harassed and intimidation, economic reprisals, and physical violence when they registered to vote because that African American voter registration was limited along with political power.
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Stonewall Riots was a Riot in the early hours of the New york city police raided the Stonewall Inn a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York city raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons
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The Title IX of the Education Amendments was a Specific prohibition except as provided in this subpart in providing any aid benefit or service
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act supports states and localities in protecting the rights of children and youth with disabilities and their families. Before this act passed many children were denied access to education and opportunities to learn 1970.
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act is a civil rights law intended to protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination. Section 504 protects qualifying students by prohibiting these students from being excluded. Any physiological disorder or condition cosmetic and mental retardation organic brain.
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Americans with Disabilities Act Amended Title I of the ADA which became effective for employers with 25 more employees on July 26, 1992, prohibits employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities
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United States V. Virginia the Virginia Military Institute had a policy that had limited enrollment to men. Appropriate because women would not be able to withstand the rigors. The court case would be 8-7 vote voted towards Board decision that admitting women
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The Defense of Marriage Act is a federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress intended to define and protect the institution of marriage. It states the fact that one unit of one man and one woman allowed individual states to not recognize all of the states at that time didn't allow same-sex marriage to happen because it wasn't a way of life
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals exercises prosecutorial discretion providing temporary homeland security Janet Napolitan unlike federal legislation
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Obergefell V. Hodges was a legal case in which U.S supreme Court ruled 5-4 which states bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions.
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Bostock V. Clayton County was a case on the boss of a company fired a gay person only because of how he identified the case was ruled 6-3 majority of the court and the summary and what the court had to say was that they shouldn't discriminate or fire anyone only because of their sex