Unit 2 Key Terms

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  • 13th Amendment

    The 13th amendment states that all forms of slavery are no longer legal
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes were laws set in the south during 1865 and 1866 that had the intent of limiting african american's freedom
  • sharecropping

    Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. Sharecroppers often earned little money this way
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    Lynching

    Lynching was a major threat to blacks during the time frame of their freedom from slavery to the complete desegregation of the United states. Lynching is generaly when a group of people, often whites during the late 1800s and through the 1900s, would hang or otherwise kill either a select individual or a group of individuals, most often blacks in the South.
  • 14th amendment

    The 14th amendment gave all U.S. citizens the right to vote, regardless of their color
  • 15th amendment

    The 15th amendment gave all U.S. Citizens the right to vote (as long as they were male)
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson was a land mark U.S. Supreme court case that upheld the seperation of blacks and whites as constitutional Image found at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy.html
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Laws reffered to as 'Jim crow Laws" are laws that enforced racial segregation that were put into action after the Plessy V. Ferguson case.
  • 19th amendment

    The 19th amendment gave all U.S. Citizens the right to vote regardless of their sex
  • 20th amendment

    The 20th Amendment states that if the President were to die, then the vice president is to take up office
  • Federal Housing Authority/Administration (I think this is the right one)

    a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It set standards for construction and isued bank loans.
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Garcia helped form The American G.I. Forum to help hispanic vetrans to intregrate back into society
  • Brown V. Board

    Brown V. Board was another landmark case in the Supreme court that ruled segregration as "Inherintly Unequal", and removed the laws set in place by the Plessy V. Ferguson decision. Info and Image found at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
  • Desegregation

    Technically, Segregation ended with the "Seperate but not equal" decision in Brown V. Board, but the roots of segregation ran deep in the south and were hard to get rid of
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    Non-Violent Protest

    during this time the African-American CIvil rights movement fought for equality with the use of many non-violent protest.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr's first speech

    Martain Luther King, Jr gave his first speech pertaining to the montgomery bus boycott Info and image found at http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086
  • Rosa Parks

    Altough she was not the first to standup (or rather to Sit down) for her rights on the bus, Rosa Parks was the one the NAACP chose to be their star of the Bus Borcots that followed
  • Mongomery Bus Boycott

    a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
  • civil disobedience

    Civil disobediance can mean one of two things, the book by Henry David Thoreau, or the act of non-violently protesting unjust laws and actions. During the course of the Civil Rights Movements civil disobediance is a common theme for those fighting for equality.
  • Orvill Faubus

    Serving as the Governor of Arkansas, Orvill Faubus summoned the National Guard to block the 9 black children from attending school in Little rock Info and Photo found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Faubus
  • Civil rights Act of 1957

    Primairaly a voting rights act, this Act strengthened the enforcement of the 15th amendment
  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

    A Series of non-violent sit-ins that caused a Woolworth department store in north carolina to get rid of its segregration rules
  • Affirmative action

    the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination within a culture.
  • 24th amendment

    The rights of a citizen to vote shall not be impeded by a poll tax
  • Cesar Chavez

    WIth the help of Dolores Huerta, Cesar founded United Farm Workers of America
  • George Wallace

    In an attempt to stop two black children from enrolling at the university of Alabama, Then Governor Wallace stood infront of the main door. President John F. Kenedy sent in the U.S. 2nd infantry to enforce the desegregratio laws
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan is known for writting the book "The feminin Mystique", which is creditied to sparking the second large wave of feminism in the U.S.
  • Lester Madox

    As owner of the Pickrick resturaunt in georgia, Lester refused to serve blacks and later on those who supported intregration. He threatend those who tried to enter the resturaunt with a axe handle reffered to as "the Drumstick".
  • civil rights act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned all discrimination based on race, color, or sex (which was added at the last moment)
  • Upward Bound

    The goal of Upward Bound is to provide certain categories of high school students better opportunities for attending college.
  • Head Start

    Head start began as a sumer school program that helped low-income children catch up with missed lessons.
  • Thurgood Marshall appointed associate justice of the supreme court

    Thurgood Marshall was appointed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 2, 1967 and served untill october 1, 1991, just two years untill he died of a heart failure Image and Info found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
  • 26th amendment

    The 26th amendment allowed any citizen of the U.S. to vote in an election at the age of 18
  • Title IX

    A comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.