Unit 2 Keyterms

  • Lynching

    Lynching

    extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States
  • sharecropping

    sharecropping

    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.
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Plessy V Ferguson

  • 19th amendment

    this amendment gave women the right to vote
  • hector P garcia

    hector P garcia

    Founder of the american G.I. Forum
  • Civil Disobediance

    Civil Disobediance

    This is when people would show their disagreement with the law by breaking it peacefully
  • Brown v Ferguson

    Brown v Ferguson

  • Orville Faubus

    Orville Faubus

    When he started being a politician
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Day she didnt give her seat to a white man
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Start of the montgomery bus boycott. ended december 20, 1956
  • Desegragation

    Desegragation

    Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States.
  • civil rights act of 1957

    the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts.
  • Sit ins

    Sit ins

    four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • Peaceful Protest

    Peaceful Protest

    This is when people protest things they dont like peacefully
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Wasa civil rights activist who co-founded the national farm workers association
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

    When george wallace took his oath into office.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    March On washignton
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment

    the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox

    Was an american politician from 1967-1971
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    Start of his associate justice reign
  • 26th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.