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15 Cards in this Set
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Civil rights
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refers to the government protected rights of individuals against arbitary or discriminatory treatment bu governments or indviduals based on categories such as race, sex, national orgin, age, religion, and sexual orientationtion
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13th Amendment
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one of the three civil war amendments specifically bans slavery in the US
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Black Codes
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laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves, passed by southern states following the civil war
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14th Amendment
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one of the three cvil war amendments; gaurantees equal protection and due proscess of the laws to al US citizens
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15th Amendment
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one of the civil war amendments; specificaly enfranchised newly freed male slaves
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws enacted by southern states from discrimation against blacks by creating "white only" schools, theaters, hotels, and other public places
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Civil rights Cases
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5 cases brought to court that delt with the public places not allowing for their to be black people in their buildings.
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Poll taxes
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A tax levied in many southern states and localities that had to be paid before an eligible voter could pass a ballot
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Grandfather Clause
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voting quilification that states that if your grand father could vote, you can vote
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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This case is one about the railway and it started the seperate but equal clause which was thought to be constitutionaly correct.
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sufferage movement
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the drive for voting rights for women that took place in the US from 1890 to 1920
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Nineteenth amendment
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Amendment to the constitution that gauranteed woment the right to vote
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Brown v board
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Made it illegal to segregate in the US because it violated the fourteenth amendments gauranree of equal protection; marked the end of legal sedregation in the us
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Equal protection clause
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section of the fourteenth amendment that gaurantees that all citizens recieve "equal protection of the laws"
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Muller v. Oregon
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A case that ruled oregons law barring women from workin gmore then ten hour days was constitutional; also an attempt to define women's unique status as mothers and justify their differential treatment.
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