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| one of the three civil war amendments ; guarantees equal protection and due process of the law to all US Citizens |
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| laws enacted by souther states that discriminated against blacks by creating whites only schools, theaters, hotels, and other public accommodations |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| S.C. case that challenged a LA statute requiring that railroads provide separate accommodations for blacks and whites. The court found that separate but equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment |
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| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |
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| S.C. case holding that school segregation is inherently unconstitutional because it violates the 14th amendment guarantee of equal protection |
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| wide-ranging legislation passed by Congress to outlaw segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employments, education, and voting, created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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| policies designed to give special attention or compensatory treatment to members of previously disadvantage group |
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| Women have the right to vote 1920 |
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| race, creed, color, and religion. |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on |
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| Missouri would be a slave state |
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| Why did northern senators initially oppose adding Missouri to the union? |
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| held to discuss the civil and political rights of women. |
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| The Seneca Falls Convention was |
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| the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional. |
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| n Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that |
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arrest unemployed blacks;
II) fine blacks for vagrancy;
III) hire out some blacks so they could pay their fines for vagrancy; |
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| Black Codes often permitted local enforcement officials t |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| Brown v. Board of Education overturned |
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| The Supreme Court has created a "strict scrutiny" test for laws that categorize people by race, because these classifications are considered |
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| minimum rationality standard |
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| What standard does the Supreme Court use to determine whether classification by sexual orientation violates the equal protection clause? |
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| Native American languages were banned. |
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| Under the Dawes Act of 1887, |
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| n 1882, Congress passed the first law that explicitly prohibited immigration by people of a specific nationality. Which group was the subject of this law? |
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