Week 4 Timeline

By jcannata001

  • Declaration of Independence

    Included: white male property owners
    Excluded: Women, Enslaved individuals, Native Americans, and men who did not own property

  • Bill of Rights/Constitution

    Included: White men who owned property Excluded: Women, people of different race or religion.

  • Slavery Abolished

    Included: Enslaved Americans and Free African Americans who were discriminated against

  • Ratification of the 14th Amendment

    Included: African Americans that were born in the United States, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status,
    This also granted equal protection under law Excluded: Native Americans

  • Ratification of the 15th Amendment

    Included: African American men were given the right to vote
    Excluded: women of all races

  • Ratification of 19th Amendment

    Included: Women-they were given the right to vote.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Included: People of all color, race, religion, or sex because they were no longer discriminated against in employment or public accommodation

  • Voting Rights Act

    Racial discrimination in voting practices ended
    Included: Mainly about all previously discriminated races