Unit 2 Key Terms

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    everyone can vote
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Stated you couldn't make people slaves. with one exception
  • Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming

    Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming

    this is how southern plantation owners found a way to get former slaves to help with their crops
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Restricted african american freedoms.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Basically states that everyone is equal and no laws can be made to change it
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws that kept people separate
  • Lynching

    Lynching

    They way they killed people who allegedly broke the law
  • Plessy v.Ferguson

    Plessy v.Ferguson

    gave legal sanctions to Jim Crow segregation laws.
  • poesy v ferguson

    poesy v ferguson

    Gave legal sanction to Jim Crow segregation laws
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    Helped advance woman's rights movement
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience

    refusal to comply with the law
  • CORE

    CORE

    Stands for Congress of racial equality
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia

    civil rights advocate
  • Non-violent Protest

    Non-violent Protest

    African Americans marched instead of using violence
  • brown v board of education

    brown v board of education

    No more separate schools. unconstitutional
  • Orval Faubus

    Orval Faubus

    kept black kids from being able to attend white schools
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African Americans stopped riding the bus because they couldn't sit where they wanted
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    Was killed for supposedly flirting to a white women
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Started the bus boycott. Her refusing to stand was planned. Her story was the only heard because she was lighter and more educated than the first lady too refuse to stand up.
  • SCLC

    SCLC

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    9 African american students enrolled in a white school
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Gave African Americans the right to vote
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    the outcome of the civil rights movement
  • Sit-Ins

    Sit-Ins

    African Americans protested by sitting at restraints where they were told they couldn't be served.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    1st African American Supreme Court Justice
  • Freedom  Riders

    Freedom Riders

    Rode buses that were not meant for them
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    American labor leader
  • Ole Miss Integration

    Ole Miss Integration

    James Meredith tried to integrate an all white school. Protest breaks out
  • U of Alabama

    U of Alabama

    Would not allow black students to attend university
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    One of the biggest marches known during the civil rights movement
  • Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King Jr

    Civil Rights Leader
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox

    refused to serve black customers at his restaurant.
  • civil Rights Act of 1964

    civil Rights Act of 1964

    Ended segregation
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    overcame legal barriers that kept african americans from being able to vote
  • Watts Riot

    Watts Riot

    african motorist were arrested for supposed drunk driving
  • Stockily Carmichael

    Stockily Carmichael

    became a prominent figure in the civil rights movement.
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    black nationalist .taught self defense
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

    built his entire political career on segregation. Tried to convince people he wasn't racist.
  • Title IX (9)

    Title IX (9)

    You can't deny someone the right to education based off of their sex
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation

    Bringing everyone together instead of forcing them to separate.